Sentences with phrase «as good a predictor»

«The number of groups that retirees are members of is a predictor of both their subsequent quality of life and their likelihood of dying; being as good a predictor as physical activity.»

«The research and evidence is that test scores are not as good a predictor of long - term or medium - term success,» Tough said.

Two proteins, which have not previously been linked to pre-eclampsia risk, were shown to be at least as good a predictor of disease risk as the current best marker, placental growth factor,.

Ambulatory blood pressure is generally recognized as a better predictor of future cardiovascular disease than in - office blood pressure readings; previous research has shown that elevated blood pressure throughout the day significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular events, compared to consistently «normal» readings.

But rather than supplanting BMI as the best predictor of diabetes risk, waist circumference might be most useful if it's simply added to the mix, says Jane Bolin, Ph.D., an associate professor of health policy and management at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health, in College Station.

Regardless of these amusing possibilities, it is unlikely that the Alabama Supreme Court will side with Price's brazenly unconstitutional power grab if party identification is as good a predictor of voting behavior there as it is in the legislature.

Psychological research has pointed to «grit» as a better predictor of success than IQ.

In fact, high school grade point average (GPA) is as good a predictor, and often, better predictor of first - year college success AND four - year college persistence than the SAT (See here and here and here and here and here).

Poverty now outstrips race as the best predictor of college attendance and completion.

The self - discipline test proved twice as good a predictor of GPA as IQ.

Several researchers have cited independent reading as the best predictor of reading achievement.

My research shows that while forward P / E ratios are a good predictor of future returns for NYSE stocks, they are not as good predictor of future returns for AMEX and NASDAQ stocks.

As far as the increased costs on most socially responsible funds though (relative to low - cost index funds), I think that's as good a predictor as it ever is, which is to say it's helpful (and better than most predictors) but not at all perfect.

This analysis focused on the relationship between cumulative CO2 emissions budgets and the odds of staying below 2 °C of warming, and thus had the important side effect of establishing cumulative budgets (in this case over the 2000 - 2050 period) as the best predictors of success for any given global emissions pathway.

Recent research has shown these gatherings of melted ice can serve as a good predictor of the seasonal low - points as they reduce the ability of the sea ice to reflect solar radiation, which has the effect of accelerating overall shrinkage.

Research indicates that math skills, in particular, serve as a better predictor of long - term school success than literacy.

It is perhaps not surprising, then, that Skype served as the best predictor of communication satisfaction and relationship satisfaction.

This cross-market demand data functions as an early alert system, capturing home search activity early in buying cycle and acts as a good predictor of eventual sales activity.

Not exact matches

We used to consider total number of deals in the pipeline as a standard measure for evaluating sales progress — it turns out, a different metric, pipeline velocity, was actually a much better predictor of monthly and quarterly numbers.

Studies show that sarcasm is a sign of intelligence as well as creativity, and can be a good predictor of career success.

It is the ability to learn, and some have even identified it as the single best predictor of someone's potential.

As pundits and polls declared Clinton the clear winner of the first debate, the Mexican peso had its best day in about seven months, surging nearly 3 %, and making the peso perhaps the best predictor of the 2016 election outcome.

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

Known as your debt - to - income ratio (DTI), this calculation is believed to be the best predictor of whether you can actually afford to buy.

This also happens in financial markets as investors make decisions based only upon recent information compared to all of the available data, which can often lead to thinking current trends are the best predictors of what will happen next.

Wilcox's welcome study makes a strong case that accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior» or making an equivalent commitment to an ancient and demanding faith» is the best predictor of marital and familial happiness to be found.

Consciously or unconsciously, the movement also validates an insight which sociologists confirm: The best predictor of whether a child will remain religious as an adult is not the religiosity of the mother — for children tend to take that for granted — but of the father, because he is not expected to be religious.

More important to the conversation (and just as has been discussed earlier by others), look at Mitt Romney's past record for a good predictor of how he will function as POTUS.

I hold to the best predictor of actions in the present being the relevant past and therefore they would take the risk of being perceived as condescending and could have a dialogue that results in them being told to «go fuck themselves» or an expression that carries similar sentiment.

Next best as a predictor of militancy was the rank - ordering of salvation.

This does not change the fact that speaking statistically (instead of emotionally and irrationally as you have), the single best predictor of a child's performance in school is the educational level of his parents.

And lest you think experience was too much of a predictor here (since four of these five are up there in years), the No. 6 (Jared Goff) and 8 (Carson Wentz) QBs on the DYAR list were second - year guys, so that only goes so far as well.

Executive skills are very much in the news today as far as brain development is concerned, because we've learned that these are actually the best predictor of a child's success when he or she grows up to be an adult.

But, as University of Chicago professor James Heckman discovered in 2001, going over Perry Pre-School Project (Ypsilanti, Mich.) student success rates, certain character traits and social behaviours were a much better predictor of improved life outcomes.

Your best options include ovulation test kits (also known as OPKs, or ovulation predictor kits), body basal temperature charting, and checking for fertile cervical mucus.

Even ovulation tech devices like ovulation predictor kits as well as basal body temperature thermometer can at times give inaccurate days depending on how your body and the immune system is engaged with its surroundings.

You can also use saliva ovulation tests, urine fertility tests as well as ovulation kit predictors.

This is the best ovulation predictor kit for the money as it can identify and predict your ovulation days and your Luteinizing Hormone surge so as to determine the best days for having sex and conceiving.

According to Tough, who has investigated everything from neuroscience to educational psychology to discover the true predictors of high achievement, as a society we are so preoccupied by exam results that we are not bringing out the best in our children.

He concluded that traits such as perseverance and self - control were better predictors of success than intelligence and high test scores.

Instead, their research indicated that the best predictor of adult attachment style was the perceptions that people have about the quality of their relationships with their parents as well as their parent's relationship with each other.

This is perhaps because in well - nourished populations, infants» motor development has not been identified as a useful predictor of intellectual function later in life.

As Lord Ashcroft has observed, not being white was the single best predictor that somebody wouldn't vote Conservative.

The Index — which has been a good predictor of the path GDP will take — fell by 9.6 points from +0.3 to -9.3 in the third quarter as more businesses lost confidence in the economy.

But while the general distinction between the two industries still exists, a company's size and management style are better predictors of the type of work environment a scientist is likely to encounter as both industries continue to evolve, say experts.

The predictor that emerged as most powerful in both the UNC study and the UC San Francisco analysis was letters of recommendation from applicants» undergraduate teachers — in other words, subjective assessments from people who presumably knew both them and their subjects well.

«We explored the opportunity of using sperm RNA elements as a predictor of human health, with applications at the fertility clinic that would go hand - in - hand with the new neonatal intensive care unit genome sequencing to better health outcomes,» said Dr. Krawetz, associate director of the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development.

Melton noted that some studies support the idea that eating together is one of the best predictors of functioning families, while watching TV is seen as ineffective for individual happiness or family function.

The team found that attitudes and beliefs about CAM were found to be a better predictor of CAM usage than socio - demographic factors alone — such as race, sex, or education — which are often used to describe CAM users but stop short of fully explaining what drives people to use them.

As predicted, the participants who interacted face - to - face, and therefore had access to nonverbal behavior, were significantly better predictors of how their partners would behave in this paradigm.