Sentences with phrase «consensus on consensus»

Before you start criticizing the formal expert elicitation process, it is WAY better (less biased) than a consensus building process (see my paper no consensus on consensus).

What you're referring to is a condensed version of: Kendall Zimmerman, M. (2008), The consensus on the consensus: An opinion survey of Earth scientists on global climate change, 250 pp., Univ. of Ill. at Chicago.

According to the «consensus on consensus» paper, for instance, I noticed that 88 % of members of the AMS surveyed whose area of expertise was climate science, agreed in 2014 that half or more of the warming was caused by human activities, including 78 % who agreed that «the cause of global warming over the past 150 years was mostly human».

We know how much deniers love questioning the scientific consensus, so we can only imagine how they will react to a consensus on the consensus.

Not exact matches

Whispered questions among business leaders over the weekend produced no clear consensus on what to say about the President Trump's immigration order in public.

The company's EPS outlook of $ 32.40 to $ 34.10 on EBITDA of $ 2.03 billion to $ 2.13 billion is below FactSet's consensus estimates of $ 34.21 EPS on $ 2.14 billion in EBITDA.

Quorum features an updated consensus mechanism, the process by which different computers agree on the order and legitimacy of transactions on the network, created by Jeffrey Wilcke, one of the founders of Ethereum and developer of the Go client.

But it's not at all clear how they do, and regulators have failed to come to a consensus on that issue.

In effect, Quorum has two layers of consensus on a single blockchain, meaning two ways of reaching agreement about its transaction records, both stored on one distributed database, or blockchain.

(For the record, Agrafioti demurs about the potential automation of those positions, rightly noting that there is no industry consensus on whether AI can ever truly become as or more powerful than the human brain.)

And in a recent New Yorker profile of Apple's senior vice-president of whiz - bangery, Sir Jony Ive, it was revealed that the company's famed design studio is rarely silent — but neither is there a consensus on which tunes are the most productive.

Durkan echoed a growing consensus in describing Seattle's move as an «important step to right the wrongs [of] the failed war on drugs.»

Because states would be drawn to maximize the number of the predominant political persuasion and minimize the number of those in the political minority, each state would have overwhelming consensus on political decisions, and relatively few people would have to be governed in a way they find objectionable.

Ultimately if you're seeking for approval or board consensus on an action (getting approval for a budget, raising money, investing in CAPEX, firing a head of sales — whatever) your job is to hold a discussion in which all board members who want to voice an opinion can do so and ultimately pushing for a vote or a resolution.

Some Republican senators have been agitating for their conference to forge consensus on a legislative alternative to Obamacare as a testament to their seriousness of purpose.

Deprivation angered Greek voters, destroying any possibility of building a broad consensus on sensible economic reforms — such as creating a tax system that would force the some of the world's most notorious tax dodgers to contribute to the running of the government.

Assuming that we reach a win - win consensus on this, then phase three is the actual build out of the project.

Analysts had expected Starbucks to report earnings excluding items of 53 cents a share on $ 3.72 billion in revenue, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.

The Franco - Dutch airline reported on Friday an operating result of 1.488 billion euros ($ 1.87 billion), up 42 percent but slightly missing the average analyst forecast for 1.53 billion euros in a company compiled consensus.

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There has been a common consensus that world governments have slightly taken a back seat on the issue of sustainability and the environment (the sustainable development commission was axed in 2010 as part of Uk government spending cuts for example).

«Canadians will see that the way in which we're going about it makes sense and that when the decision time comes that there will be a consensus, at least, on the process that got us to the decision,» Carr says.

There's no clear consensus on what direction inflation is headed in.

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

The Commission took unilateral action and retroactively changed the rules, disregarding decades of Irish tax law, US tax law, as well as global consensus on tax policy, that everyone has relied on,» Apple said.

As long as detractors are on board and the team aligns around the plan or vision, differences of opinion, not consensus, should be the goal.

We reiterate our Underperform rating on Valeant ahead of what we believe will be below - consensus 2017 guidance.»

The comments followed fresh sanctions from the United Nations on North Korea, which were approved by consensus earlier this week.

Based on the experiences of the 724 high - achievers who were part of the study (including people like future - President Kennedy and Ben Bradlee, the Watergate - era editor of The Washington Post) there's a consensus.

At a high level, as defined by CBInsights, «Blockchain technology offers a way for untrusted parties to reach agreement (consensus) on a common digital history.

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But a report by the OECD published on March 16 indicated that there is still no global consensus on how best to proceed with the taxation of the digital economy or on the merits of an interim solution.

In fact, the irony is that there is a broad consensus in favor of a carbon tax everywhere but on Capitol Hill, where the «T» word is anathema.»

The consensus, though, is now leaning toward scrapping that requirement and allowing issuers of mortgage - backed securities to retain no portion of the loans on their books even in the case of mortgages with very small downpayments.

«Italy, which is not a great power, can not take on complex challenges without a strong political consensus,» D'Alema said.

How do you achieve consensus with the other officials on the ice?

Lagarde, meanwhile, is regarded as a consensus - builder who can contend with the increasing dissatisfaction among EU member states — in three years Britain plans to hold a referendum on its membership — and bring positive change to the organization.

Virtually nothing on the list brought them closer to consensus than hating the cryptocurrency.

Klassen noted, however, that the lack of political consensus on the pension plan in Ontario, weakened its case with Ottawa.

If there's consensus on one thing about big data it's that it really doesn't have a specific definition.

We've found the best time to find a consensus on a role and what skills it might require is before we hire, not while we're reviewing candidates.

Shingrix sales totalled 110 million pounds ($ 154 million) during its first full quarter on the market, beating analysts» consensus forecast of around 35 million.

Net income attributable to shareholders in the quarter, based on a current cost of supplies (CCS) and excluding identified items, rose to $ 5.322 billion from a year ago, compared with a company - provided analysts» consensus of $ 5.277 billion.

Apple has not disclosed Watch sales figures — either in dollar values or unit shipments — but Wall Street analysts and other dedicated Cupertino Kremlinologists have generally settled on a back - of - the - envelope consensus of slightly over $ 1 billion.

Analysts expected FedEx to post earnings of $ 2.90 a share on $ 14.9 billion in revenue, according to a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate.

Among some symbolic gestures, such as formally ending the Korean War, one of Moon's priorities will be to reach a consensus on denuclearization.

«There» s an emerging consensus that we can't build a recovery on poverty wage jobs, and these are the fastest growing jobs in the economy,» says Paul Sonn, legal co-director for the National Employment Law Project.

Wall Street had expected earnings of 83 cents per share on revenues of $ 1.219 billion, according to a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate.

On Friday, the initial reading on first - quarter gross domestic product was 2.3 percent, a broad indicator of the health of the economy, ahead of consensus estimates of 2 percent, according to economists polled by Thomson ReuterOn Friday, the initial reading on first - quarter gross domestic product was 2.3 percent, a broad indicator of the health of the economy, ahead of consensus estimates of 2 percent, according to economists polled by Thomson Reuteron first - quarter gross domestic product was 2.3 percent, a broad indicator of the health of the economy, ahead of consensus estimates of 2 percent, according to economists polled by Thomson Reuters.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.