Word: judgmentalism
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...professors also said that Allston residents should withhold their judgment until more concrete plans are presented because numbers and two-dimensional grids cannot give a true sense of how effective a design will...
...previous project that the team had worked on for the World Health Organization that analyzed causes of death around the world in order to better allocate health resources. In the process, they developed what they call a “fully automated procedure” that required no personal judgment from physicians and factored in statistical uncertainties. This objective technique, King said, proved useful for another project—interpreting opinions expressed about U.S. presidential candidates in political blogs. For this project, the team needed a technique that could analyze up to 185 million blogs throughout the world everyday, tracking...
...right that we can form such dramatic opinions regardless of whether we have access to and time to process crucial information that might complicate our beliefs (or convince us that withholding judgment is the only reasonable choice)? When Kaavya Viswanathan was accused of plagiarism, I remember hearing contemptuous comments in every corner of Harvard Yard well before the suspect passages of her book were publicly scrutinized. Watching rumors quickly transform into absolute “facts” and seeing reasonable people cast sweeping verdicts were frightening events for a freshman born in a totalitarian state, who thought that groupthink...
...election is," he adds, noting McCain's come-from-behind victory in the Florida primary. "He's a closer." Republican political consultant Cory Tilley, a top aide to former Florida governor Jeb Bush, argues that McCain is "doing the right thing to raise doubts about Obama's record and judgment. No campaign wants to be sitting down the day after an election asking, 'Did we not do everything we could?' " But, Tilley concedes, "this is a different Florida landscape than it was four years ago, so the difficult question becomes, How do you deliver the message right in this important...
...undergraduates seem to allow some nebulous ideal—that of unblemished achievement—to run roughshod over their own feelings and steer them away from these helping hands. Some end up before the Ad Board, where deans and faculty members (they might as well be Olympians) pass judgment on the wayward lamb who drank too much or slept through an exam, without a peer of his or hers’ in sight. The tenured are the arbiters of what is constant here, and their verdict is final. No dialogue, no discussion truly occurs: This is less communication than...