elicitation

• “Where data is scarce, regulators supplement calculations with knowledgable opinion - what the industry calls "expert elicitation," in which experts are asked to speculate.”

  The Huffington Post: The Center for Public Integrity: Nuclear miscalculation: Why regulators miss power plant threats from quakes and storms

• “So for 30 minutes, I pulled everything together - by nomination, open elicitation, explanation and restatement.”

  F is for Flow « An A-Z of ELT

• “What is interesting is that NASA's organizational "peers", for purposes of budget elicitation, are these cabinet-level organizations plus a handful of others -- such as the EPA and SBA.”

  NASA Administrator: A New Name Is Circulating - NASA Watch

• “Essentially, Camping's message turned into overt manipulation through the elicitation of a fear response in the potential believer.”

  The Huffington Post: Shira Hirschman Weiss: Rapt By The Rapture: Thoughts On Reponses To Religious Figures

• “As I have said several time in the recent past, Apple is very similar to gold in its elicitation of passion and emotional responses from both those that own it and those that invest in it.”

  The Huffington Post: Reggie Middleton: How Google is Looking to Cut Apple's Margin and How the Sell Side of Wall Street Will Enable It

• “Apple is very similar to gold in its elicitation of passion and emotional responses from both those that own it and those that invest in it.”

  The Huffington Post: Reggie Middleton: How Google is Looking to Cut Apple's Margin and How the Sell Side of Wall Street Will Enable It

• “They had used a method called metaphor elicitation to see if their office was connecting properly with the unspoken and in many cases unrecognized inner thoughts and feelings of their applicants.”

  The Washington Post: Admissions office probes applicants’ scary depths

• “We might even suppose them functionally identical, treating the process of indirection as a conscious or unconscious strategy for avoiding face-threatening behaviour, seeing every revelation as also an elicitation, deliberate or not, carried out in the expectation of a response, even if it is only sympathetic agreement.”

  Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2)

• “Ideally, the stories and novels that are brought forth as “the best and the brightest” in our field pay at least lip service to concerns such as, but not limited to: characterization, emotional resonance, the elicitation of surprise, immersion, perhaps even a sense of the secular numinous.”

  Takeaways | Goblin Mercantile Exchange

• “There is content here, albeit of the most minimal sort, but more than anything else this exchange is a revelation of insecurity, an elicitation of reassurances that the participants are still emotionally connected, that communion is welcome.”

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