The Weight-Inclusive versus Weight-Normative Approach to Health: Evaluating the Evidence for Prioritizing Well-Being over Weight Loss.
Indeed, rejection of peers based on perceptions of excess weight is normative.
This implies that even when people give an intuitive response on the classic conflict problems they give some minimal weight to normative considerations such as the conjunction rule or the role of the base-rates.
8 Health professional advice to lose weight became normative (ie, observed in over 50% of respondents) at a BMI of 37.
Comparison of height and weight with normative data in the absence of standardised growth tables for patients with ADHD may cause conclusions about the effect of medication on the observed growth parameters to be overestimated if ADHD patients have differential growth patterns unrelated to their medication status [ 24].
This places all the normative weight on procedural values.
Third, the definition is not intended to carry any normative weight to it.
Being rational we can elect to assign some feature of our characteristic behaviour no or negative normative weight.
Third, what normative weight, if any, attaches to a state's refusal of consent when it's cooperation is necessary to the achievement of morally mandatory aims such as the prevention or mitigation of global warming?
At stake in these debates is whether, or how much, normative weight to assign features of the human condition that have traditionally been taken as given (e.g., the families into which we are born and our natural talents and abilities) or inevitable (such as, pain and ageing).
Since conceptions of knowers carry normative weight, making distinctions between those who know and those who don't, or between those who know more or less well, feminist discussions of situated knowers are very much integrated with their discussions of the objectivity and justification of knowledge claims (see Section 3: Social Models of Knowledge and Objectivity).
