As the specific need for empirical information is dependent on the underlying account of ethical justification, different kinds of empirical data on an ethical issue are not of the same use for a normative evaluation of the respective topic.
Because we also found similar effects in the raw scores of the SDQ, we may perhaps exclude the use of a single (US) normative sample as a confounding factor of influence in the Conners' questionnaires.
7 8 9 In contrast, the International Society of Clinical Densitometry recently reversed its earlier position advocating use of a young male normative database and recommended that T scores in men be calculated using a young female normative database.
The activity of using a normative sentence as in the first example is sometimes referred to as "norming"—it creates a norm by granting permission by the very use.
To develop the scorecard underlying the measurement of SDS, we use a normative catalogue of disclosure items based on prior research on voluntary disclosure practice, as well as on recommendations to use value reporting disclosure scorecards (e.g., Meek et al. 1995).
The more concrete question posed is "how much uncertainty is there over the standing (i.e., percentile rank) of the patient's MDAS score as a function of error in using a normative sample to estimate its standing in the normative population.
Although scientific approaches to religion in the 19th century discouraged use of normative categories, elements of normative judgment were, nonetheless, hidden in certain of the new scientific classifications that had emerged.
We describe a prototype implementing the concepts of e-contract using ***ℳOISEInst, a normative multi-agent organizational model.
Accordingly, the notion of immigrant integration is highly contested, and is often used as a normative idea instead of an empirical concept (see Bauböck, 2006).1 The best expressed are these normative expectations in assimilation and multiculturalism as two opposing modes of integration.
