Sentences with phrase «as a representative sampling»

Using those 16 companies as a representative sample for the entire Fortune 500 cohort would result in a pretty wide margin of error: 24.3 %.

Lack of scalability is the reason you, as a representative sample of the SEO world, aren't.

The paper studied 20 discharges of plasma chosen as a representative sample of those created in PPPL's National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) prior to its recent upgrade.

One procedure physicists are fond of is to draw a cut - off at some finite time, count up the number of events — say, heads and tails — that occur in the multiverse before the cut - off time, and use that as a representative sample.

As a representative sample of Porcaro's timekeeping skills, the research team focused on the studio recording of the 1982 hit «I Keep Forgettin»» by singer Michael McDonald.

Approximately 2,300 students in 110 Virginia schools were selected to participate in last year's special administration of the national grade - 8 science assessment as a representative sample of the commonwealth's eighth graders.

Amazon, for example, never sold enough of my books or ebooks to count as a representative sample of author success.

There are only 96 reviews on booking.com, with an average of 8.4, which is good sign but hardly qualifies as a representative sample.

The problem with this approach is that the collection of curves can not be interpreted as a representative sample of some population of reconstructions.

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That's a small, subjective sampling of opinion, but given the skyrocketing growth rates of both companies, it's probably representative of the larger whole as far as service providers go.

The polling industry's professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys can not be assigned a margin of error as they are not a random sample and therefore are not necessarily representative of the whole population.

The telephone survey of a representative sample of approximately 3,000 Americans was conducted as part of a broader study of people in the 27 member states of the European Union and in Brazil, China, Croatia, Iceland, India, Israel, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, the United States, Japan and South Korea in the summer of 2012 on behalf of the European Commission.

The earnings reports thus far may not offer a representative sample for the S&P 500 as a whole.

Much like the Length of history component, the types of credit component is likely used as a measure for how representative your existing credit history sample size will be about your future behavior.

it's highly doubtful you or anyone could come up with a true representative sample for your «bird theory» and as the «millions and millions» of years progress a sample would become virtually non-existent.

Overall, the entire field of Christian social ethics — liberationist or not — pays scandalously little attention to empirical data and social science, as when Karen Lebacqz cites the Hite Report as though it were a statistically representative sample of sexual attitudes and behaviors, or when Michael Novak draws simplistic comparisons between Japanese and Latin American political economies.

Ernest Boyer, drawing upon the reports of observers who visited 29 campuses across the country, as well as upon a survey of the attitudes and opinions of 5,000 faculty and 4,500 undergraduates in a representative sample of institutions, writes more analytically and less passionately than Bloom.

As a rule, people who leave their country represent a biased, not a representative, sample of their compatriots.

Clear Opinions, November 2013 GPI partnered with EcoFocus Worldwide Research to conduct a sample of 4,046 nationally representative adults ages 18 - 65 to ask them very specifically what factors are considerations for them when thinking about the purchase of a food or beverage as it relates to packaging, particularly when it comes to concerns regarding the health or the environment.

Representatives from the breweries will be onsite to speak about each of the beers as patrons sample at their leisure.

Representatives from the breweries will be onsite to speak about each of the beers as guests» sample at their leisure.

Representatives from each of the participating breweries will be onsite to pour and speak about the beers as guests» sample at their leisure.

The Nestlé Boycott started in 1977 in Minneapolis, USA and had one basic demand: that the company halt all promotion of breastmilk substitutes to parents and health workers, including direct advertising to consumers, the distribution of free samples and the use of «milk nurses» (company sales representatives dressed as nurses).

Some of these studies involved large representative samples from the United States; 2 some studies controlled for potential confounders, such as parental stress3 and socioeconomic status; 4 and some studies examined the potential of parental reasoning to moderate the association between physical punishment and child aggression.5 Virtually without exception, these studies found that physical punishment was associated with higher levels of aggression against parents, siblings, peers and spouses.

It was made up of both citizens and politicians; 66 of the 100 members were citizens selected randomly, as a representative population sample.

Large countries like the UK should have no trouble with extending an open invitation to the public to participate in the process through crowd sourcing as long as appropriate sampling techniques are used to compile a representative collection of comments and suggestions offered by the citizenry.

An optimal size for a country as large as the United States would be approximately 700 delegates, and I would choose them by a more - or-less random lottery, counting on the laws of statistics to generate what would in fact be a more «representative sample» of the public than any election would produce.

We all weight our sample to be representative in terms of demographic characteristics such as gender, age and social class, but the main requirement is to ensure the sample is politically representative.

The general view is that there are other more important factors that determine the accuracy of telephone polls, such as getting a politically representative sample.

By conducting surveys in Russia and Ukraine, using representative samples of the populations of both countries, this project seeks to unpick the elements which make up the national identity of Russians and Ukrainians, with particular emphasis given to Ukraine's varied and contested regions, such as Eastern Ukraine and Crimea.

* As ever, BrandIndex does not use a nationally representative sample, but a sample that is slightly skewed towards younger and wealthier respondents.

Likewise, in the Trade Union ballots, I use the Labour List poll as a starting point but adjust them to reflect the likely effect of Union executive recommendations and turnout, and to reflect the fact that the poll sample is unlikely to be representative of affiliated union members.

Nevertheless, the initial study was viewed by AAAS as a useful step toward development of a more scientifically rigorous and representative international survey that would enable generalization beyond the sample completing the questionnaire.

They used a nationally representative sample of 5,593 middle and high school students between the ages of 12 and 17 years old living in the United States to find out how many youth participated in digital self - harm, as well as their motivations for such behavior.

The group polled a sample of 1,100 people demographically representative of the United States, weighted to ensure as close a match as possible.

If customers provide samples for all alleged fathers, as the lab advises, the representative said that further SNPs are tested until all but one alleged father can be excluded.

Mutz polled a nationally representative sample of 1,142 Americans in 2014, and again in 2016, asking about their Harry Potter consumption, their attitudes on issues such as waterboarding, the death penalty, the treatment of Muslims and gays, and (in 2016 only) their feelings about Donald Trump on a 0 - 100 scale.

However, biopsies are prone to sampling errors and so may not be representative of the tumour as a whole.

The panel could not determine whether NICHD's plan to enroll pregnant women through a sample of U.S. hospitals would yield a group as representative of the population as recruiting women through prenatal providers within the original 100 NCS counties.

To ensure that the sample is representative of the U.S. population, uSamp controls for factors such as time spent online in daily life.

«We needed unbiased sampling that was as representative as possible.

As part of a regular health survey, researchers measure the levels of some 300 chemicals in a representative sample of people.

«We wanted to take a sample of plants that we could defend as being representative of plant diversity globally,» says Lughadha.

To gain deeper insight into how Americans develop perspectives on the morality of scientific breakthroughs, Pew conducted a series of focus groups that drew from the same nationally representative sample as the survey.

So one water sample may be as representative as another 50 yards (about 45 meters) away.

One caveat of our analysis is that we are using the three Iron Age samples from Cambridgeshire as proxies for the indigenous British population, which no doubt was structured, though it seems reasonable to take these as representatives at least for Eastern England.

In the present study, we examined time trends of consumption of added sugar as percentage of total daily calories using a series of national representative samples.

Flexibility of the shoulder joint measured as range of abduction in a large representative sample of men and women over 65 years of age.

Thanks to my EVER representative Kate Delaney for providing me with samples and a LAVISH body butter as compensation for this review.

And in fact, research suggests that there are no significant personality differences between online and offline daters.5 There is some evidence that online daters are more sensitive to interpersonal rejection, but even these findings have been mixed.6, 7 As far as the demographic characteristics of online daters, a large survey using a nationally representative sample of recently married adults found that compared to those who met their spouses offline, those who met online were more likely to be working, Hispanic, or of a higher socioeconomic status — not exactly a demographic portrait of desperate losersAs far as the demographic characteristics of online daters, a large survey using a nationally representative sample of recently married adults found that compared to those who met their spouses offline, those who met online were more likely to be working, Hispanic, or of a higher socioeconomic status — not exactly a demographic portrait of desperate losersas the demographic characteristics of online daters, a large survey using a nationally representative sample of recently married adults found that compared to those who met their spouses offline, those who met online were more likely to be working, Hispanic, or of a higher socioeconomic status — not exactly a demographic portrait of desperate losers.8