technical judgement

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Financial imperatives of management trumped good technical judgement.

That was a legal and not a technical judgement.

Licensing is now carried out on a Europe wide basis but that is more of a technical judgement of efficacy and safety.

Is higher education likely to make you better, to improve your capacity to make sound moral as well as technical judgements, in other words to take part in what Amartya Sen calls "public reasoning"?

The MATA approach supports more informed decision-making because it exposes important trade-offs among competing management objectives (requiring value-based choices), helps guide and structure necessary technical judgements, explicitly represents uncertainty (i.e., not just expected outcomes but risk profiles around outcomes) and addresses temporal trade-offs.

Regulatory thresholds and criteria also involve technical judgements, not just in terms of the numerical value, but in the way that numerical value is measured or expressed.

This example simply illustrates that many technical judgements can also be involved in the setting of a threshold or criterion, and in the evaluation of an in silico model.

The allocation of resources, whether within health or other sectors, is not merely based on technical issues but results from a complex interplay of political, ethical and technical judgements.

When surgeons ignore nurses' requests to put contaminated drapes in the allocated bins and instead throw them on the floor, they are not simply making technical judgements about infection risk; they are also making normative judgements about what is acceptable behaviour.

In this context, the function of safety reviews are understood as expert judgements on proposals for design modifications1 and redesign of technical systems (i.e. commercial nuclear reactors), supported by formalised safety review processes.

But by dint of her intelligence, her technical expertise, her judgement, her creativity, her work ethic, and her willingness to coöperate with people rather than elbow them aside, she has risen to the top of the one of the most demanding professions there is.