Whois & Analysis for consumerreports.org

Consumer Reports is an American magazine published since 1936 by Consumers Union, a nonprofit organization dedicated to unbiased product testing, consumer-oriented research, public education, and advocacy.

Consumer Reports publishes reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory and survey research center.

The magazine accepts no advertising, pays for all the products it tests, and, as a nonprofit organization has no shareholders.

It also publishes general and targeted product/service buying guides.

it had approximately 7 million subscribers (3.8 million print and 3.2 million digital) and an annual testing budget of approximately US$25 million.

On What Matters is a three-volume book of moral philosophy by Derek Parfit.

The first two volumes were published in 2011 and the third in 2017.

It is a follow-up to Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons.

According to its dust jacket, the book is "about reasons, values and morality".

It has an introduction by Samuel Scheffler.

Evaluation is a.

systematic determination of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards.

It can assist an organization, program, project or any other intervention or initiative to assess any aim, realisable concept/proposal, or any alternative, to help in decision-making; or to ascertain the degree of achievement or value in regard to the aim and objectives and results of any such action that has been completed.

The primary purpose of evaluation, in addition to gaining insight into prior or existing initiatives, is to enable reflection and assist in the identification of future change.

In economics, a service is a transaction in which no physical goods is transferred from the seller to the buyer.

The benefits of such a service are held to be demonstrated by the buyer's willingness to make the exchange.

Public services are those that society (nation state, fiscal union, region) as a whole pays for.

Using resources, skill, ingenuity, and experience, service providers benefit service consumers.

Bias is an inclination or outlook to present or hold a partial perspective, often accompanied by a refusal to consider the possible merits of alternative points of view.

Biases can be learned implicitly within cultural contexts.

People may develop biases toward or against an individual, an ethnic group, a nation, a religion, a social class, a political party, theoretical paradigms and ideologies within academic domains, or a species.

Biased means one-sided, lacking a neutral viewpoint, or not having an open mind.

Bias can come in many forms and is related to prejudice and intuition.