value judgment
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6.2
- noun
- /ˈvælju ˈdʒʌdʒmənt/
:
juicio de valor
- When choosing a restaurant, many people make a value judgment based on personal taste rather than objective reviews.
- make value judgments
- implied value judgment
- involves a value judgment
I'm not making a value judgement on what she's saying.
- I'm not making a value judgement on what she's saying.
- It is simply fascinating, without this fascination implying any kind of value judgment whatsoever.
- And that is so loaded with subjective, you know, value judgements.
- And for you know, the criticisms are value judgements about his character, Cold, brutal, sometimes called misogynist.
- There's just a lot of schmoes, and it's like the most random, arbitrary way to split people up into us and them, and it causes people to make value judgements.
- You end up putting value judgments on people, and I don't think it serves us well when we're caring for the person in front of us.
- So that affects I guess the value judgement of the review.
- So the upside, the upside is clearly value judgement in a very quick way.
- And you're in this cycle of analyzing judgment, sort of value judgement about behavior and then tension.
- They, the value judgments are intermediate, their stimuli to go on further.
- I wouldn't say that that that that fact makes them better, that the fact that they're more evolved in that sense is not a not a value judgement.
Examples
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Don't wrap bad news in your own value judgments; a client's values may be quite different.
Academic text (1995) -
Allocating resources is clearly one task area that involves value judgments based on a multiplicity of factors.
Academic text (1991) -
I tried to state clearly that I do not place a value judgment on any culture.
Blog text (6) -
In engineering education, there would be value judgments about what our students should know and be able to do.
Academic text (2011) -
The answer is surely not to express moral or any other sort of value judgment.
Academic text (2000) -
When thinking about a situation, advocates must carefully separate questions of fact from value judgments.
Academic text (1993) -
In addition, students are then expected to make value judgments about the facts, issues, and conclusions of a case study.
Academic text (1990) -
The question of equality or inequality is more complicated and involves value judgments.
Academic text (1997) -
The choice of adjective seems to emphasize that these are, in large measure, value judgments, rather than statements of fact.
Academic text (1991) -
We've talked about value judgments, and one kind of value judgment is a moral or ethical value judgment.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person's view about something
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2.8
A decision about how good someone's work or skills are
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2.4
An opinion or decision formed after careful thought
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3.7
A careful decision about how good or valuable something is
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4.3
A judgment of how well someone does their job or how much something is worth
How Subjective
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound meaning is directly compositional: 'value' (a belief or standard) + 'judgment' (an assessed opinion) yields an opinion based on personal values rather than objective facts. This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common noun-noun/nominal composition (e.g., Spanish 'juicio de valor'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Value judgment comes from the two words value and judgment; imagine a judge putting personal likes on a scale instead of hard facts. That's why it means an 'opinion' based on personal values rather than on 'facts'.