Sentences with phrase «arbitrary cut points»

The 2 studies used different measures as proxies for the parenting dimensions of warmth and sensitivity, both with arbitrary cut points to dichotomize the parenting dimensions, so that they could have measured different underlying constructs.

The dashboard has a color - coded, 25 - square performance grid for each indicator that will create a number of arbitrary cut points between performance levels.

Average scale scores are a better measure of central tendency compared to percent of students at proficient or goal because scale scores do not lump students status levels at arbitrary cut points.

Not exact matches

The problem is that the cut, being arbitrary, could be put at various points.

To pick a theoretically arbitrary but culturally significant cut - off point, Tottenham's first - team squad contains just one player over 30, and that's back - up goalkeeper Michael Vorm.

Labour MPs also made the fair point that cutting the number of MPs from 650 to 600 is an arbitrary gesture of appeasement to anti-politician sentiment.

Given that the tax system is focused on individuals rather than families, the change could lead to perverse outcomes which see an arbitrary cut - off point for families receiving child benefit.

Matthews and Weaver make the point that this is a little arbitrary and that the true impact of climate inertia would be seen only with emissions cut to zero.

Focusing on a single data source — for example, an arbitrary proficiency level or cut point — can lead schools to focus on a single group of students who hover around this point and ignore those far above or below that point.

Matthews and Weaver make the point that this is a little arbitrary and that the true impact of climate inertia would be seen only with emissions cut to zero.

However, Grech's endorsement of the Taskforce's proposals differed from Briton's in two ways: The first difference was that Grech was concerned that «from a practical perspective the requirements may prove unnecessarily cumbersome» for sole practitioners or small firms, and thus he proposed «an arbitrary cut off point as a definition of small firm,» for whom the implementation of AMS would not be required.

Using tertile cut points meant that the proportions of parents allocated to each parenting style were essentially arbitrary, but this does not negate the strong internal relationships, which were the prime concern of this article.

They represent a continuum along which arbitrary cut off points are used to define «normality» and «abnormality».

In person - centered methods such as LPA and LTA groupings are empirically based and not based on cut - points, which are arbitrary and less developmentally sensitive.

Because it is increasingly believed that mental and behavioral disorders can best be understood as scores on a continuum (e.g., Satcher 2000), we conceptualized pathological gaming as a continuum, instead of using an arbitrary cut - off point to determine if someone is addicted or not.