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Of course, we can't know the answer from this study, because an operational definition of "faculty member" was not provided to these students.
Detecting gives practical tools to mediate disagreements--especially Operational Definitions (clarifying the initial definitions both parties are working from) and Anecdotal Reporting (a meticulous description of a series of actions, comments, and responses in order to discover patterns).
An example of a productive operational definition is the precision-recall measure, which was developed to measure the degree to which a given retrieval system does or does not achieve its discrimination and collocation objectives (Cleverdon, 1962).
 
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