queasy, quasi-experimental design, quasi-emergency

Will Smith’s behaviour made for a queasy spectacle that underlined doubts about the function of the Academy Awards

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Airlines Are Queasy as Customers Flee

Demand for air travel is sliding faster than the industry expected, leading to pessimistic forecasts for the remainder of the year.

Third, newspapers could not investigate collusion in other industries without feeling just a little queasy. Certain Degrees Now Cost More at Universities By JONATHAN D. GLATER Public university officials admit they are queasy about a practice that appears to value one discipline over another.– Back to results Followers of Falun Gong, a quasi-Buddhist sect, will want to mark the tenth anniversary on July 22nd of its banning.

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quasi

(kwā'zī', -sī', kwä'zē, -sē) adj.

Having a likeness to something; resembling: a quasi success.

[Middle English, as if, from Old French, from Latin quasi : quam, as + sī, if.]

quasi- prefix used to show that something is almost, but not completely, the thing described: The school uniform is quasi-military in style. 

A quasi-experimental design is one that looks a bit like an experimental design but lacks the key ingredient -- random assignment. My mentor, Don Campbell, often referred to them as "queasy" experiments because they give the experimental purists a queasy feeling.

[BOOK] Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference TD Cook, WR Shadish, DT Campbell - 2002 - depts.washington.edu

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queasy 

adjective likely to vomit: I started to feel queasy as soon as the boat left the harbour. Just the thought of blood makes me queasy.

1. 嘔吐的;催吐的;易於反胃的

1. · Causing uneasiness.
2. Uneasy; troubled.

2. · Easily troubled.
3. Ill at ease; squeamish: “He is not queasy about depicting mass violence, in some circumstances, as a legitimate instrument of social transformation” (Shaul Bakhash).
4. 不安的;過於小心的