From research into such very first impressions, it is known that participants make stable judgments about personal characteristics such as attractiveness and likeability, already after 100 ms exposure to a face (Willis and Todorov 2006).
Simply stated, "A people is more prudent, more stable, and of better judgment than a prince" (Machiavelli 1965, 316).
In 67 eyes of 61 patients, treatment was shorter than 4 years due to death (n = 16), loss to follow-up (n = 31) or clinical judgment of stable condition or an untreatable state (n = 14).
We reach an apparently paradoxical conclusion: that non-expert judgment is less stable, but not necessarily less accurate, than that of experts, judgments on the part of experts sometimes being clouded by self-interest.
However, the dangers of generalizing from a subset of causal cases are very real, as is the possibility that intuitive judgments are not stable for complex cases, and we will discuss these issues after presenting the empirical studies.
In physicians' overall judgment, 36.3% had stable disease, 30.9% had slow progression, 11.2% had rapid progression and in 21.7% of cases, no judgment was considered possible.
Moreover they kept control of the decision about who to discharge through their individual professional judgment: 'What is a stable PSA [prostate specific antigen]?
It also postponed judgment on whether to eliminate the stable net-asset value, which would make money funds more like standard mutual funds, the prices of which fluctuate.
Employees should also "be organized in stable hierarchies where they are evaluated primarily through the judgment of their superiors".
Such arguments, like similar ones in legal interpretation, have drawn outrage from critics upholding a more stable or objective view of linguistic meaning and literary judgment [8: 15].
