Quotes About Assessment

in war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.

Olen tutkinut asiaa useamman vuoden, ja havaintojeni perusteella uskon vakaasti, että ihmiset eivät ole tasa-arvoisia, jotkut ovat typeryksiä ja toiset eivät ja että sen määrää luonto eivätkä kulttuuriset tekijät.

The society as a whole is neither better nor worse off. If

them,"We accept all responsibility. Let us do our job, and then you can judge the results.

Warren's actions on Little Round Top on July 2 demonstrated clearly how a senior leader in the heat of crisis should recognize a threat, assess its danger, form a workable plan, and follow it through to execution. A century later, his decision making on July 2 became a standard example of sound command initiative used in U.S. Army leadership manuals.

Performance cannot be based on one assessment. You cannot determine the slope of a line given only one point, as there is no line to begin with. A single point in time does not show trends, improvement, lack of effort, or mathematical ability.… Sincerely,

Performance cannot be based on one assessment. You cannot determine the slope of a line given only one point, as there is no line to begin with. A single point in time does not show trends, improvement, lack of effort, or mathematical ability….

The fixed mindset, plus stereotyping, plus women's trust in other people's assessments of them: All of these contribute to the gender gap in math and science.

we look for people that are gold in the place where we're shit and shit in the places where we're gold

Human beings are afflicted by a need to judge.

Social scientists emphasize that people use the "availability heuristic," which means that we assess risks by asking whether a bad (or good) event is cognitively "available." It

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

If you don't have questions about a product's risks, then there's no reason to test. If you have at least one such question, then ask: Will these tests cost more to execute than their answers will be worth?

Good testing involves balancing the need to mitigate risk against the risk of trying to gather too much information.

You never get a second chance to have a first impression.

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.

Reappraise the past, reevaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed.