Example sentences for: nonnumerical

How can you use “nonnumerical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We might also interview selected low-income families with regard to their experience in seeking housing or we might, as participant-observers, pose as low-income applicants and report our own experiences in finding housing for families of different sizes and within different payment ranges (judgmental, numerical, and nonnumerical).

  • To illustrate differences among types of information, we might base the conclusion that "the day was hot" on data from an instrument that records the room temperature (numerical and objective), a record of the atmospheric temperature as written down by an observer checking a thermometer (numerical and relatively nonsubjective), a survey asking people how hot they felt (nonnumerical and subjective), and a "thick" description of what clothes people were wearing, how much they perspired or shivered, whether they turned up the furnace or the air conditioner, and how much energy they seemed to have for work (nonnumerical and judgmental).

  • Information based on judgments (such as the estimated speed of a UFO) which may be expressed in numerical or nonnumerical ways and data that may not be based on judgments (such as state of birth) but are not meaningfully expressed numerically.

  • numerical) or of severity of the problem (judgmental, nonnumerical).


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