IN preparing his new budget, President Bush focused his attention on a particular type of spending, the sort subject to annual appropriations by Congress.
Further than before from the inside story, he nonetheless remained a backroom boy in a sense, beavering away in the upper chamber and on official commissions to review such hard-to-sort subjects as electoral reform and social care for the elderly.
Money-maximizing behavior in the experiment sorts subjects by academic ability, as measured by performance on verbal analogy questions, across two levels of question difficulty.
Thompson et al sorted subjects into three categories – healthy, overweight, and obese – according to initial (1990) BMI.
Again, this pattern was confirmed by a median split sorting subjects into two groups according to the size of the O R encoding-strength index (Fig. 5B).
This pattern was confirmed by a median split sorting subjects into two groups according to the size of the O R usage index (Fig. 5B).
On the contrary, the subscales could produce reliable measurements only for basic evaluations, like sorting subjects or preliminary decisions, considering that some possess inappropriate reliability as an indicator of low discriminatory ability [ 3].
When finished sorting, subjects were then asked to respond to two reflective prompts: 1) "Which if any of the problems was difficult to assign to one of the 4 categories and why?
After completing the unframed card sorting, subjects were then asked to respond to two reflective prompts that probed the reasoning behind their card groupings and group names: 1) "Describe why you grouped certain problems together and give an example of your reasoning".
Today CEO Mark Pincus offered a timetable, of sorts — subject to licensing approvals, he said we should see Zynga's first products in this field in the first half of 2013.
