Sentence examples for verbal term from inspiring English sources

Table 1 Probability ranges for verbal descriptions, taken from Morgan (2009) Verbal term Probability range Virtually certain >0.99 Very likely 0.9 0.99 Likely 0.66 0.9 Medium likelihood 0.33 0.66 Unlikely 0.1 0.33 Very unlikely 0.01 0.1 Exceptionally unlikely <0.01.

"But the greatest language barrier," he concluded, "lies between man and his animal brains; the neural machinery does not exist for intercommunication in verbal terms".

In the past, theories of learning, as a prerogative of psychologists, were generally formulated in purely verbal terms and evaluated exclusively at the behavioral level.

In general, the fundamental procedure to implement such methods involves the translation of the experts' verbal judgements into computable linguistic variables, the arithmetic operations of the linguistic variables, and the transformation of the derived outcomes back to the verbal terms.

It is an intense experience in which an artist must express, in verbal terms, a strong theoretical foundation for the choices they make in producing visual art and has no choice but to clarify their thoughts along the way.

Such distinctions become clear once a formal model has been built, simulated, and applied but are often obscured when models are couched exclusively in verbal terms.

It could be argued that other verbal terms are needed to describe frequencies.

One way of framing is the use of verbal terms in communicating the probabilities of treatment effects.

Several studies have compared the use of verbal terms versus numbers for communicating the frequency of adverse drug effects.

We are not aware of any studies comparing verbal terms other than those suggested in the 1998 European Commission's guidelines though.

Participants perceived probabilities presented in verbal terms as higher than in numeric terms: commonly used verbal descriptors systematically led to an overestimation of the absolute risk of adverse effects (Range of means: 3% - 54%).