### concept:

Value
* All values are self-determined by man, and only exist in the mind of man.
* Explains how to characterize a program in terms of the values it computes.
* Most values drive growth.
* Some values are a strong part of the person's personality make up and are resistant to change
  - exhibited by animals
  - change as leaders gain experience, others are fixed parts of their personality
* Some values change over centuries
  - past centuries
  - contribute to starvation
* are a product of our individual experiences
  - set of beliefs based upon a code of ethics in a society
  - abstract ideals about what a society believes to be good, right, and desirable
* are also closely related to ideals, and many ideals are carried by ethical principles
  - fundamental beliefs that are non-negotiable
  - always determined in the individual, unique minds of men and women
* are an essential part of each person's working and daily lives
  - illusion created by the dominant class
  - important component of motivation
  - individual's stabilizing factors in a world where the only certainty is change
  - integral part of a nation's infrastructure
* are attitudes about the worth of people, concepts, or things
  - or importance of people, concepts, or things
  - beliefs and standards that are important to live by
* are beliefs that guide behaviors
  - people use to give meaning to their lives
  - beliefs, principles, and ideals that guide behavior
  - complex and are informed by race and socialization
  - concepts of what is good, right, and important
  - core beliefs such as duty, honor, and integrity that motivate attitudes and actions
  - durations
  - emotional connections between individuals, whereas science is value-neutral
  - essential in a healthy society
  - evaluative beliefs about preference, and serve as standards of judgment
  - friends, bringing happiness in life
  - how one defines what is right, fair and good
  - ideas about what is desirable in life
  - ideas, beliefs, and customs to which people are emotionally attached
* are important as they influence a person's behavior to weigh the importance of alternatives
  - in all phases of education from early childhood onwards
  - independent of demographics
  - intangible feelings
  - internal beliefs
  - long range commitments to ends that people share culturally
  - measures
  - merely projections of our feelings upon external things
  - norms or codes by which people live their lives
  - only indirectly related to morality
  - passions which trigger a bias for action
  - principles to follow in achieving the goals of the organization
  - principles, standards, or characteristics considered worthwhile or desirable
  - shared ideas about what is good
  - standards that have some intrinsic or estimated worth
  - strongly held beliefs
  - subjective preferences often implying what is right or wrong
* are the abstract concepts of what is right, worthwhile or desirable
  - basis for all decision-making in life
  - core principles which give meaning to our lives
  - criteria for a sound social fabric
  - glue that holds an organization together
  - leaders beliefs and emotional feelings that drives the inner self
  - lightness or darkness of the fabric
  - princlies and ideas that people believe strongly in and that guide their behaviors
  - result of our upbringing, our socialisation and our cultural background
  - roots of behavior
  - self-motivators that indicate what is most important in our lives
  - source of accomplishment and satisfaction in life
  - specific cultural goals towards which norms are directed
  - stuff from which purposes are made
  - treasure of life, making humans wealthy and rich
  - unchanging, constant beliefs and norms that underlie the vision
  - values for creatures with our particular sensibility
* are what an individual considers most important in life
  - define and give our lives direction
  - gives meaning to our experiences in life
  - matter in life
  - whatever people are willing to pay
* base on experience
  - information
* can be about fun and happiness
  - differ between people, families, and societies
  - express mood or form
* combination of good rates and good service
  - quality and cost
* come from parents.
* comes in many forms.
* correspond to situations.
* define the character of an organization.
* depend on characters
  - circumstances
  - locations
  - patterns
* derivation of desire.
* describe what the organisation is about and give meaning to stake holders.
* describes the lightness of the color
  - range of lightness or darkness of a visual element
  - the relative lightness or darkness of a color as well as shades of gray
  - worth of individuals in themselves or in the positions which they hold
* emerge out of the ordeals that men and societies go through.
* encompasses relative worth, utility, or quality.
* evolve and continue to develop just as the individual grows and develops.
* exist at individual, family, and society levels
  - in the world objectively apart from human choice or human or animal consciousness
* exists in intangibles, and human capital is among the most important.
* explain what is good or bad, right or wrong, just or unjust.
* express our beliefs about what is important, good, right and fair.
* function of quality, as well as cost.
* function of the future earnings of a company
  - retinal stimulation of the rods
* give information
  - meaning to people's lives
* give value to life and quality to living
  - to our living
* govern makers
  - policy makers
* greatly affect the way people spend money.
* grow out of the experience of living in a particular environment.
* have both a cognitive and affective component
  - fitnesses
  - impact
  - large uncertainty
* highlight variability.
* imply numbers.
* include variation.
* indicate benefits
  - capability
  - correlate responses
  - differences
  - effects
  - negative responses
  - positive effects
  - significant differences
* influence our everyday behavior as well
  - people's behavior and serve as criteria for evaluating the actions of others
* interact to generate new values and meanings.
* is abstract and imagined in the mind, and also embodied in money
  - also one of the three properties of color
* is an especially important element in works of art when color is absent
  - integer defining the nth check upon which the message was last found
  - another term for brightness
  - ascribed to something based on a comparison with something else
  - divided into common value and value par excellence
  - essential for people to function well over time
  - in relationships among distributed intelligence
  - inherently a human creation in a naturalistic universe
  - low cost of ownership
* is measured by how well products and services meet the needs of the customer
  - differently in every business
  - price, quality, and service
  - relative to demand
* is something that needs to be determined by each buyer
  - which is part of it
  - that upon which one acts to gain or keep
* is the 'fair' price that the most traders are comfortable with
  - benefit that goes beyond actual service
  - border thickness in pixels
  - combination of quality and price
  - darkness or the lightness of a color
  - entry value to generate the random numbers
  - height in pixels
  - importance that acting man attaches to ultimate ends
  - labour-time necessary for the making of a commodity
  - lightness and darkness of a given hue
* is the lightness or darkness of a color
  - the hue
  - measure of customer choice
  - number of seconds to pause between steps
  - price divided by the duration of the memory
* is the quality of anything that renders it desirable or useful
  - that gives something exchangeability in the marketplace
* is the ratio of benefits received to the sacrifice needed to obtain the benefits
  - functionality to cost
  - quality to cost
* is the relative darkness or lightness of a color
  - of the soil color
  - second dimension of color
  - strength or darkness of the color
* is the value of name
  - the data gets when the item is selected
  - way animal interest and partiality are experienced in consciousness
  - width in pixels
* is the worth of a service or product to a consumer
  - an object to the person who desires it
  - understood through the sense of value
  - variation in lightness and darkness
  - vertical space width in pixels
* is what prices in a free market accurately reflect
  - the customers' demand as values and are willing to pay for it
* matter a lot in human behavior and they matter especially in both crime and drug use.
* means offering products and services that are of solid quality and sold at a reasonable price
  - value of production
* measure of preference
  - quality and benefit in relation to the level of investment
  - or indicator of absolute worth or importance
* metric indicating the hop count to the destination host or network.
* neutral axis that refers to the grey level of the color.
* non-variable term, or another attributed variable.
* number determined in the absence of a market
  - or starts with a number
* often change as the culture changes.
* perception in the eye of the user.
* personal, and constantly changing, concept.
* play an important role in making decisions about how to manage non-indigenous species.
* provide a source of energy, motivation and fulfillment in life, work and leisure
  - evidence of spirit in human life
* refers to a quality of an object that satisfies a desire of tile subject
  - how light or dark a color is
  - the changes in lightness or darkness of the color
* refers to the degree of lightness or darkness in a color
  - or darkness in any color
* refers to the lightness or darkness of a color, or hue
  - of a hue
  - of a tone
  - strength of the desire for an option's feature or outcome
  - subtle difference between shades of colors and tints of colors
* reflection of how everyone perceives an opportunity.
* relate to motion.
* relate to upward motion
  - vertical motion
* related to food can include many things.
* relates to limits of time and amount.
* relative fact that varies in significance from zero to infinity
* represent combined global trading volume of exchange-traded futures and options
  - typical values
* represents the amount of light reflected, or the brightness of the color.
* rise during the third trimester of pregnancy, reflecting fetal-skeletal growth.
* rises exponentially with market share.
* serve as guidelines.
* shape our organizational culture, and in the long run, culture determines performance
  - perceptions and the selection of data
* show in tables
* spiritual as well as a financial matter.
* stem primarily from culture and education.
* subjective concept - it's in the mind of the beholder
  - term, particularly in the horse industry
* tend to permeate and influence all aspects of our lives
  - prioritize factors in our lives
* tends to rise sharply as weight and size increase.
* unite people Values that are held in common unite people and families.
* use equations
  - follow equations
  - similar techniques
* usually encode information having survival or prestige importance.
* vary from locations.
* yield statements.
+ Normal distribution: Probability distributions
  * Many values follow a normal distribution. This is because of the central limit theorem, which says that if an event is the sum of other random events, it will be normally distributed.