Sentences with phrase «about the assumptions underlying»

In her e-mail, Button advises young scientists to» [t] hink hard about the assumptions underlying [their] research design and be up front about any limitations.

Valuations are generally based on an idea of expected future income, so, having our fair share of aeronautical engineers, as well as a good American representation in the group, we have a great discussion about the assumptions underlying the valuation, the future of the air travel market, and the role of governments and other stakeholders in funding such large projects.

But the absence of a relationship between average school test scores and incumbents» electoral fortunes in the 2002 and 2004 school board elections raises important questions about the assumptions underlying accountability systems.

To the extent that demographers talk about the assumptions underlying the UN medium variant, which now shows world population reaching 9 billion, by 2042, there's a growing consensus that the assumptions may prove too optimistic (i.e. population may grow more rapidly than projected).

Not exact matches

I mean the basic framework and assumptions we use to talk about the practice and profession of management, our underlying beliefs about what corporate leaders and managers are trying to achieve, and how they go about achieving it.

Even if you agree with him about how much investment will increase, the assumptions underlying his job numbers are misleading.

Yet their conclusions, in most cases, will rest precariously on assumptions and guesses about underlying Party mechanics and motivations that can neither be proved nor disproved.

That's why we need a conversation about it — and the underlying assumptions it is built on — as well as its pastoral outcomes.

The underlying assumption of this notion, as Christian D. von Dehsen, who helped research this article, has pointed out, «is a form of moralism about homosexuality which, in essence, supplants the gospel.»

This speaks volumes about some of the underlying assumptions regarding men, women, sex, and power that are at work in this whole conversation... especially considering the fact that men have written humorous accounts using the words «penis» and «testicles» for the same market.

The reason this has proved to be such a problem in process thought has less to do with the peculiar nature of Whitehead's concept of God than with an underlying assumption about prehension.

There's an underlying set of assumptions about the world that have been present within this set of thread of Western thoughts that weren't necessarily the way the Bible's authors thought.

Its underlying assumption is that there was nothing inevitable about the process of urban decay, that what we have here is a problem and not a condition.

Thus there is little hope for our recovering a feeling of truly belonging to the cosmos as long as we hold onto the assumptions about physical reality (such as the primacy of primary qualities and cognate assumptions) underlying scientism and materialism.5 For we will continue to have a gnawing suspicion that the real world is so different from our projections that we are still without a home in the universe as it runs on colorlessly and meaninglessly beneath our secondary and tertiary «subjective» projections.

A decision to negotiate from within one of these two types and on its grounds is at the same time, however implicitly, a decision to adopt its underlying assumptions about what it is to be human.

In that letter, I told that preacher (not MacArthur) that our differences in belief aren't so much about who is interpreting which verse correctly, but it is about the underlying assumptions that we carry in.

No — the underlying assumption is that personhood is about sex, and health is therefore to be assessed relative to sexual activity.

Underlying this confidence in reason's capacities are Hartshorne's assumptions that reality has an intelligible and coherent structure, that human reason can know that structure, and that there can be a basic congruence between reality and human ideas or formulations about that reality.

Bledsoe is a Professor of African American studies and the paper is in part of cross-cultural comparison of the bedrock assumptions that underlie beliefs about childbirth.

The underlying assumption is that women who decide to formula feed do so because they just heard about it, have a free sample lying around, and decided to try it out.

But the fuss over her comment and its underlying assumption — that there must be something wrong with him because, busy or not, he «should» have a girlfriend — got me thinking about the work of Bella DePaulo, author of numerous books on the single life, including Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After.

This kind of interdisciplinary engagement may also have the side benefit of heightening the theorist's reflective awareness of the underlying sociological assumptions — about power, human nature, the main tendencies of social life and so on — that s / he inevitably makes in constructing a political vision of how the world ought to be.

Thomas Piketty has become, if such a thing exists, an economics celebrity with a book that has fundamentally challenged some of the underlying assumptions about the efficiency of capitalism in delivering benefits for all.

A common idea about why this works is that the mistakes various people make cancel each other out; an additional, more important idea is that there's at least a little bit of correctness in the logic and assumptions underlying many of the guesses, so they center around the right answer.

So the thing that Einstein was wrong about was in his 1935 paper, criticizing or finding some kind of incompleteness in quantum mechanics; the thing that he was wrong about was his underlying assumption of locality.

I understand it's not an overtly direct extrapolation, but fundamentally it more or less still is if the underlying assumptions about the feedbacks are presumed to not only be correct but also operate proportionally the same to the forcing from the LGM as they do in reponse to future forcings in the current climate.

Coppola does not diagnose underlying societal problems; she does not make assumptions about the cultural void in which the kids live.

You can slog through all seven - plus hours of «Penny Dreadful» without getting a sense that Logan has any particular emotional involvement in or new ideas about these classic horror stories (the vampire hiding from the light, the manmade pariah feeling the sting of unrequited affection) beyond the underlying assumption that the world is a cold and lonesome place and it behoves us to take love and friendship where we can get it.

In 2004, questioning underlying assumptions about real estate valuation would get an analyst dismissed as unsophisticated.

«We need to reflect on the assumptions underlying how we see and what we talk about as commonplace and ordinary because our students represent the growing diversity in our communities.»

By analyzing the discourse employed by politicians, lobbyists, think tanks, and special interest groups, the authors uncover the hidden assumptions that often underlie popular statements about school reform, and demonstrate how misinformation or half - truths have been used to reshape public education in ways that serve the interests of private enterprise.

It is also important to point out that the bill is based on underlying assumptions that few are talking about right now, but that should be challenged.

This section includes information about the assumptions and parameters underlying the work of the Moving Your Numbers initiative, a reminder about who struggling learners are, and the process used to identify the districts featured on this site.

In order to gage how much students know about ELL trends and needs, we provide a simple, short T / F «quiz» that highlights some basic information and gets at underlying assumptions.

In a blog post on the department website, Duncan said when he mentioned the white suburban moms, he had been trying to «encourage a difficult conversation and challenge the underlying assumption that when we talk about the need to improve our nation's schools, we are only talking about poor minority students in inner cities.»

What about the underlying assumption of the whole scheme — that we have the capacity accurately to measure school quality?

At the same time, we owe it to them to thoroughly understand the assumptions that underlie these concepts about learning and success, and question their real usefulness in explaining what goes into student outcomes — before we apply them.

With futures, there is no assumption about the volatility of an underlying stock.

It does not make assumptions about the underlying distribution.

The unconscious aura of titillation that arises from a visual representation of an aspiring woman artist in the mid-19th century, Emily Mary Osborne's heartfelt painting, Nameless and Friendless, 1857, a canvas representing a poor but lovely and respectable young girl at a London art dealer, nervously awaiting the verdict of the pompous proprietor about the worth of her canvases while two ogling «art lovers» look on, is really not too different in its underlying assumptions from an overtly salacious work like Bompard's Debut of the Model.

I agree, they should evaluate something... I am not as sanguine as Ray though about how a mismatch «insight» would be employed in the science when the belief remains that the underlying assumptions remain robust enough coupled with the scientist as advocate model you support.

And that's why Charlie and I cited the actual underlying scientific report (chapter 6) along with a detailed discussion of the assumptions that drive those results (chapter 1) rather than citing the SPM — because chapters 6 and 1 tell us a lot more about the actual state of the research.

Had been following psych only via behavioral economics, which showed that a lot of the underlying assumptions about human «rational choice» from when I studied Econ are just wrong.

What this discussion should be about is the IPCC hypothesis and whether the warming plateau in the surface temperature trend weakens its underlying assumptions and conclusions?

Of course, the underlying assumption is that we know about and have some understanding of ALL other factors that could contribute to warming over a 30 year period of time.

Recent workshops showed that countries have not been very forthcoming about their pledges, including underlying methodologies and assumptions.

Of course, the underlying assumption is of gaussian variance in each variable, my log - normal comment was about the resulting PDF.

True land based levelized wind is about 11.8 cents / kwh at a 33 % capacity factor Just one of the books many examples of «official» misinformation by omission or false underlying assumptions

Short answer: the errors cancel out (or almost entirely cancel out, depending on plausible assumptions about the distribution of the underlying true temperatures).

This error will have a distribution that will depend on the underlying distribution of temperatures, but it will be uncorrelated, or very close to uncorrelated, with the underlying true temperature for any reasonable assumption about true underlying temperatures (please note I said uncorrelated, not independent, since they will certainly not be independent).