Now, they can focus on more qualitative, value-added commentary that humans are inherently good at.

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Selecting her best shots for eBay, she also posted them on MySpace to get a more qualitative feel.

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As for Cendant, some money managers are taking a more qualitative approach, following the leader rather than the money.

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In analyzing the potential impact of news, the challenge is to figure out how to quantify more qualitative sorts of data.

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Asia also has more qualitative political and institutional characteristics such as improved central bank credibility, maturing political institutions and seemingly more sound fiscal policies than most of the West, the BlackRock Investor Institute says.

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Scaling in the social sector means understanding the best approach to making a more meaningful qualitative difference with respect to a social issue.

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In addition, this also becomes less of a quantitative equation and more of a qualitative one because shared value itself is not always quantitative.

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That passion about being a change agent is what led me to write The Manifesto, which is more of the qualitative aspects of those 12 steps.

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Meanwhile, Morningstar doesn't use a bell curve for its qualitative analyst ratings, which it launched more than a year ago.

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Two targeted surveys were commissioned by Maven looked into these issues in a bit more depth, asking financial experts and social media marketers qualitative questions on their current feelings about the IPO and future predictions.

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