If the evaluation question involved an understanding of working conditions for migrant laborers or workers in heavy industry, a thick description, even including information on how exhausted the evaluator felt in the heat, would be more appropriate-according to some case study methodologists-than only recording that the thermometer registered 95 degrees.
Descriptions are better than numbers sometimes.
The plaintiffs claim Penrose's design is distinguished by its aperiodicity (the pattern almost but never quite repeats itself) and its five-fold symmetry (a trait that at the time was thought not to exist in nature but has since been identified in certain crystal formations).