Sentences with phrase «as a prediction nearly»

Which is not bad as a prediction nearly two decades ago.

Not exact matches

As a result, the Crimson Tide have seen the last four Crystal Ball predictions and have nearly caught up to Michigan.

But, as the nearly complete results table shows, that was another prediction largely confounded in these elections.

«We have found an implementation of the system that allows us to go in the lab and actually test the predictions of the Dicke model, and some extensions of it as well, in a system that is not nearly as complicated as people always thought it has to be for the Dicke physics,» Engels said.

The model's noble - gas ratio predictions were similar to the ratios found in atmospheric data gathered from as far away as Japan and Russia nearly two months after North Korea announced it had conducted an underground explosion in 2013.

A 2016 ProPublica investigation found that COMPAS, a tool used by many courtrooms to predict whether a criminal will break the law again, wrongly predicted that black defendants would reoffend nearly twice as often as it made that wrong prediction for whites.

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Although the public presentation of charter school research today is nearly as contentious as it was when the AFT report made waves in 2004, beneath the radar screen is a growing convergence on a set of findings that fit neither the rosy predictions of the early advocates nor the dire fears of the early critics:

Given this variability, we can make statements about averages, such as «on average» teachers in the top 20 % for VAM scores will likely have on average higher observed observational scores; however, there is not nearly enough precision to make any (and certainly not any good) predictions about the observational score from the VAM score for individual teachers.

If twelve month loss predictions are used to write a three month policy, the numbers become nearly useless as a predictive factor.

My guess is that Shiller is not nearly so confident today that his prediction will come through as he was in July 1996.

And as I said before, the data already available make it nearly impossible for Keenlyside et al.'s prediction for the 2000 - 2010 average to be supported by the data.

That's an excerpt from the latest extended forecast from the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the superstorm that nearly all computer simulations see developing in a few days as the remains of Hurricane Sandy — which has already killed at least 21 people in the Caribbean — collide over the East Coast with a cold front sweeping in from the west.

Sure it's a short time period, but nothing in any alarmist prediction or IPCC report hinted that there was any possibility that for even so short a time as 15 years warming might cease (at least not in the last IPCC report, which I have read nearly every page of).

Accordingly, the time period for which real - world temperatures are not rising nearly as rapidly as IPCC predictions is now not just 35 years, but approximately 70 years.

And when global temperatures are getting as low as they have been in nearly three decades, predicting «a cold spell» is no work of genius, and neither is the «prediction'that it will get warm again... at some point.

Issues like the Medieval warm period, different possible causes of climate change (such as solar activity, or even the nature of our climate), studies indicating the last interglacial period was warmer than today, and the failure of recent dire predictions about the climate all show the debate on climate change is not nearly as settled as many global warming proponents would have us believe.

*» Modern hydrology places nearly all its emphasis on science - as - knowledge, the hypotheses of which are increasingly expressed as physical models, whose predictions are tested by correspondence to quantitative data sets.

He said the company's supercomputer is «not nearly as big as what [the National Centers for Environmental Prediction] has,» but it's almost exclusively devoted to the weather model — unlike the government's computer, which is split among multiple tasks.

They are referring to a 1971 article written by climatologist Stephen Schneider, in which he did, indeed, make that prediction; however, as he himself now acknowledges, new evidence soon followed its publication that suggested that 1) the cooling impact of aerosols was not nearly as high as originally estimated and 2) there were many other gases in the atmosphere, including methane, CFCs and ozone, that had the same warming effect as carbon dioxide.

But in general, on average, increasing wealth (especially past the point where all your basic needs are met) doesn't make people nearly as happy as they would have predicted, and this goes back to our flawed prediction mechanism.

If twelve month loss predictions are used to write a three month policy, the numbers become nearly useless as a predictive factor.

However, I believe that they will not be nearly as disruptive as claimed by the gloom and doom predictions of late.