"It's decisions like this that consumers notice when they are decoding the underlying values behind a company or brand.
"A number of reform ideas are under consideration by the State Legislature, and while I can't talk about the specifics of any of them, I can say we share many of the underlying values they propose," Mr. Duncan said.
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams tweeted a link to a scathing blog post from Branch CEO, Josh Miller, explaining, "In service of noble causes, FWD.us is employing questionable lobbying techniques, misleading supporters, and not being transparent about the underlying values and long-term intentions of the organization.
On behalf of the Society, the group issued its recommendations following the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) format; this format disentangles the strength of recommendations from the quality of the evidence and encourages statements about the underlying values and preferences relevant to the particular recommendation.
Similarly, while single-loop learning describes the detection of an error and correction without questioning the underlying values of the system, double-loop learning occurs 'when mismatches are corrected by first examining and altering the governing variables and then the actions' (Argyris 1999: 68).
However, the underlying values crisis is far from resolved.
Moreover, the underlying values for the total population were three years old (census data from 2004) and hence might be not precise.
The most telling aspect of the developments described above, however, is that the underlying values presented here come from the current approaches promoted and used by the scientists and funders themselves.
Clinicians need to develop a 'shared narrative' with patients: perceptions of appropriate behaviour in responding to illness can be embedded in such narratives, the underlying values of which are situated in wider contexts.
Yet, the question on whether or not to condition a cash transfer remains largely unanswered and hotly debated, often guided by the underlying values of donors, government staff, policy actors and academics (Freeland 2007; Schüring 2010).
This means that the summary statistics upon which inference is based carry significant information about the underlying values of the parameters, as had previously been suggested by the correlations between parameters and summary statistics in simulated data sets.
