"What we have done in a very straightforward, objective way is to let people know how their member of Congress is doing on all the issues about food they keep hearing about — pink slime, farm subsidies or cuts to food stamps," said Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, a Washington research organization, and a board member of the Food Policy Action.
The first step, "self-assessment," is one of the hardest, but most rewarding, things a scientist can do--use a very straightforward, objective test to get at your most inner feelings.
"Our Olympic selection is one of the most straightforward, objective selections you can have: three races on the Olympic course and the best two count, so pretty much whoever wins two races goes to the Games.
The researchers said the analysis could "offer a straightforward and objective measure of an otherwise elusive feature of a candidate's presentation of self, which predicts the candidate's relative social status and the popular vote".
With this input, it should be possible to develop more straightforward, and objective methodologies, with which to guide decision-making.
Neuropsychiatric disorders are notoriously heterogeneous in their presentation, which precludes straightforward and objective description of the differences between affected and typical populations that therefore makes finding reliable biomarkers a challenge.
Colin Powell explained that "you have to treat Russia...in a straightforward, businesslike, objective way and not emotionally".
No, the fact of the matter is that you have to be very careful in a situation like this not just to leap to one side or the other until you've taken a good analysis of the whole situation....So you have to treat Russia...in a straightforward, businesslike, objective way and not emotionally".
By dividing the resulting datasets into standardized testing and training datasets, it would be feasible to compare algorithms in a straightforward and objective manner.
We are not arguing that abundance is a perfect representation of importance but it is seems to be a straightforward and objective measure.
