Going Against Conventional Wisdom

Even on issues like contraception and abortion, women s positions are sometimes influenced by conflicting assessments. Women who plan to postpone marriage while building their careers are far more likely to want to ensure that they can avoid or end an unintended pregnancy.

Even on issues like contraception and abortion, women s positions are sometimes influenced by conflicting assessments.

LONDON It is difficult to separate some of my personal memories of Margaret Thatcher mundane but revealing from the sweeping judgments of history.

But their exuberance biases India s global ranking relative to more empirically minded countries.

He's the viceroy. He has to decide on tax policy, on currency, on border patrol, on policing. He has to make all these judgments.

It does not connote objective claims of right or wrong, but only refers to that which is considered right or wrong.

It all depends on a value judgment one of the many value judgments societies must make with respect to modern medicine.

And then finally, to show that some of the differences between people, in how we judge others, can be explained by differences in this brain system.

Even citizens who prize accuracy have little way of knowing that they are sacrificing it when they switch channels from boring foxes to charismatic hedgehogs.

They profess such sobriety of view as to regard all concepts as equal in weight or significance until new evidence decrees otherwise.

There is plenty of scope for different judgments on both issues, neither of which lends itself to definitive answers based on solid numbers.

Consequently, it is helpful to have a proxy activity that enables outsiders to see that the process of discernment and valuation really occurs.

Interest rates high enough to curb stock market speculation would also have curbed construction and other forms of investment, raised unemployment, and sent the economy into recession.

To cause a significant current evil in order to avoid a possible future danger when our knowledge is limited and our judgments uncertain is, Greenspan believes, unwise.

However technically sound they may be, research results that have been deliberately produced, in secret, for corporate profit are inevitably suspected of bias.

I am concerned that such depictions would give children the wrong perception of history and ideas, especially when they are yet to make their own judgement.

The changes I showed you are impressive to me because of what they tell us about the function of the brain, but they're small on the scale of the moral judgments that we actually make.

But neither that decision nor later IMF policy papers on multilateral surveillance provide specific and comparative quantitative indicators that would eliminate the need for case by case judgment.

A former military head of state, Buhari, has cut the stern personality of being incorruptible, a man who keeps his words and does not allow the trappings of power to cloud his judgement.

It has often been thought that universality is a condition for something to be a properly ethical statement 'thou shalt not steal' is an ethical statement in a way that 'thou shalt not steal from Margaret' is not.

In 2014, for example, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered 129 judgments against Russia, and in January, the Council of Europe deprived Russia of its voting rights for its violations of international law.

'I cannot defend his opinions,' said Dolly, flaring up, 'but I can say that he is a very well informed man, and if he were here he would be able to answer you, though I cannot.'

VRONSKY HAD TRIED SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE, though never so definitely as now, to lead her on to a discussion of her position, and had always encountered the same superficiality and lightness of judgment with which she now replied to his challenge.

I kept up with Japanese news and my friends, as those things were part of my identity, but I began shedding values and judgments about people and viewing others through a less biased lens.