Sentences with phrase «arbitrary selections of»

Are the rules according to which it proceeds arbitrary selections of the mind?

The first disc includes an arbitrary selection of six «Deleted Scenes» running just under nine minutes in total.

They aren't perfect — age, after all, isn't the only determinant of one's needs — but they are far better than an arbitrary selection of funds.

Not exact matches

This selection can not err for it is based upon obedience of the whole person rather than arbitrary choice.

Some today want to include some of the other books as it seems to them that there were arbitrary and political motivations for the selection of the books.

I didn't downvote, but your selection of major countries seems arbitrary.

Illustration of points in an arbitrary high - dimensional space that live close to a one - dimensional, tree - like structure, as might arise from genomes generated by mutation and selection in evolution.

Cosmological natural selection could help explain the seemingly arbitrary values of fundamental constants.

GAPS seems arbitrary in it's selection of foods.

Here, the selection by cable channels of what to letterbox seems almost totally arbitrary (Pillow Talk but not The Tarnished Angels, for instance); this Sunday TNT is presenting a whole day of letterboxed movies, but the titles selected suggest that artistic considerations had little or nothing to do with the choices.

Our comparison group is a significant improvement on the self - selection of countries that choose to take a test as well as an improvement upon arbitrary membership in an organization like the OECD.

Finally, most of the previous reviews of the evidence on school choice have generated more fog than light, mainly because they have been arbitrary or incomplete in their selection of studies to review.

While I understand extremely well the difficulties of implementing font selection on arbitrary CSS inputs, I can't get around the overriding feeling that no customer cares.

Asness notes that the selection of a ten - year average is arbitrary («You would be hard - pressed to find a theoretical argument favoring it over, say, nine or 12 years»), but believes that it is «reasonable and intuitive.»

It was hard to pick out the best of the bunch, but I'm nothing if not good at arbitrary selection.

That's an arbitrary selection method, but any of the three iterations would be perfect on the console.

Related to strategy and war, Tworkov's selection of the knight icon is far from arbitrary.

There are some caveats: the attempts to cover smaller works on paper and allied photography are too bitty, the rather arbitrary mixed selection of later works in the last gallery confusing, although even here there is a bonus in a four - panel burst of dappled blues and yellows by the underrated Joan Mitchell.

If the choice of showing only her stripe paintings sounds in any way arbitrary (excluding her most famous «wave paintings,» for instance), the show is an occasion to focus on a particular selection of works with the same features.

And the so - called arbitrary selection and assemblage of «subjects» in his combines have significant repercussions in terms of our viewing experience; he engages us in a perceptual challenge in which our attention and stamina tested to keep up with the ever - evolving surface of the work.

He later talked about how his selection of color wasn't arbitrary.

Related to strategy and war, Tworkov's selection of the Knight icon is far from arbitrary.

And I would offer a similar criticism of that as well, as IMO, you neither ground that form of analogizing in a scientific manner; as I have told you, I think that your inclusion and exclusion criteria selection process is quite arbitrary, and I don't think that it is coincidence that it confirms your distinction of a group you belong to («skeptics») from a group you criticize («realists») in ways that (1) reaffirm a superiority in the group you belong to and, (2) I consider to be superficial and not meaningful as compared to the vastly more important underlying similarities (e.g., the tendency toward identity protective behavior, motivated reasoning, cultural cognition, confirmation bias, emotively - influenced reasoning, etc.)...

In the chart below, selection of the 50 average sunspot number as a reference value is arbitrary, but serves to visually demonstrate the increase in solar activity over the last 50 years.

One was that the construction of a model required selection of a parameterized model from a large number of possibilities by an essentially arbitrary process of selection.

The reason given in Briffa 2001 for their selection of a certain reconstruction is discussed: >> > The selection of a single reconstruction of the ALL temperature series is clearly somewhat arbitrary... The method that produces the best fit in the calibration period is principal component regression... << >> ``... we note that the 1450s were much cooler in all of the other (i.e., not PCA regression) methods of producing this curve...» << <

The selection of a single reconstruction of the ALL temperature series is clearly somewhat arbitrary... The method that produces the best fit in the calibration period is principal component regression...

One, which I've already covered, is that the selection of the prior PDF is arbitrary.

The selection of the flat prior is arbitrary yet the selection of this prior is a premise in the IPCC's argument for CAGW.

3) Loose protocols, arbitrary selections and lack of prior prediction of results should only be allowed for exploratory analysis.

Brandon Shollenberger was going to try to play stump the chump by saying they couldn't get something right based on where he lives, thus playing up a fallacious argument of arbitrary selection — ala the usual phrase «if it can't get this right, how can it get that right?».

Selection of this non-recursive model as the final model was not arbitrary.