About an analysis – should it be bottom-up or top-down? Should you go from the bottom and rise, or analyze from the top and go down.
When you analyze a professor or a university system, it’s much more appropriate to approach it like this:
“The good aspects of so-and-so are these. I refuse to focus on the negative ones, as long as the positives outweigh the negatives.”
The idea is that if you start by looking at the negative aspects, OR if you begin with an overall, global analysis, you’re likely to find shortcomings.
If, however, you start from the positive aspects, you will end up overlooking the negative ones.
