"If it matters from an evolutionary standpoint, the best question would be, does it increase fertility?" says Robert Martin, an evolutionary biologist and adjunct professor at the University of Chicago.
The following participants were enlisted in each group to illustrate different standpoints on the question: two participants representing the general public; an ethicist or bioethicist; a participant with a legal background, a participant representing the mass media, or a sociologist; a physician; a nurse; and an additional healthcare professional.
How to reconcile this against the fact that Mr. Romney is about tied — or perhaps even has a small lead — in the average of national polls right now? From a forecasting standpoint, this is the question that the whole election may turn upon.
Spreading the pain is essential.From an economic standpoint, the most pressing question is how this will affect the British economy.
From a political standpoint, the government might question whether it is worth losing the support of the wildlife lobby in return for grudging approval from a farming community that will never be Labour's friend.
A Public Health Puzzle From a public health standpoint, the troubling, unanswered question about the 61-year-old New York hospital worker, who has been identified as Kathy T. Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant, is whether she is what epidemiologists term an outlier -- someone who fails to fit the pattern of an outbreak and therefore represents a harbinger that an epidemic is about to grow more dire.
These transgressions of rhetorical genres to one side, from Socrates' standpoint the ultimate philosophical question at stake concerns how one should live one's life (500c).
From an actor's standpoint, the most compelling questions were the hardest to ask: What does it feel like to kill a man?
From a traditional standpoint, one could have raised the question of why all these phenomena with a deep potential to affect the mechanics of evolution occur in the germline.
