Word: rationale
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Evidence-based research means, more or less, that someone has done statistical analyses on subjectively chosen "outcome parameters." There are some cases where the outcome, or endpoint, of a trial is pretty definitive and measurable - like, say, death. Other times, the outcome parameters can be as nebulous as "satisfaction" or...
Soccer's inflationary economics is simply good business in the current market - the real estate experience reminds us that bubble-economy behavior is perfectly rational until the bubble bursts. But there are certainly risks. The current combined debt load of the English Premiership clubs is about $12 billion ($3 billion...
In the often bizarre system of weights-and-measures used by the apartheid state to classify people for purposes of separating them, Chinese South Africans were first deemed "Asiatic," then "Colored," and finally "the Chinese Group, which shall consist of persons who in fact are, or who, except in the...
Even the most irascible voter recognizes that their leaders need a break from time to time. So why should we care where our leaders vacation? "We assume we're much more rational than we are, that we look at a politician and a party and we assess their policies and...
Most reasonable people agree that the Earth is warming, and that humans are the main cause. But even reasonable people disagree on what we should do about it. At one end are the true believers, like physicist James Hansen, who recently argued that oil executives should be put on trial...