Sentences with phrase «as little correlation»

Not exact matches

Bonds have historically had little correlation to equities except in market crisis situations, so creating a portfolio of both equities and bonds makes a whole lot of sense as a long - term investor.

This correlation between little story and big story, between life story and the story of the universe, is fundamental to the whole storytelling enterprise as a way of giving meaning to man's life.

Unless we are to suppose that there is little or no correlation between the initial aim and the final form of the subjective aim — a very strange supposition — we must assume vast differences in the initial aims derived from God by a primitive man and by an Einstein, or for that matter, between myself as I drop off to sleep in the evening and as I write these words.

The starting to advance age is a little concerning to me if he played more as a speed merchant earlier in his career (no idea if that is the case since I have never seen him play, just speculating given his small stature and playing at wide positions) as their production generally declines more quickly in correlation with age.

To calculate the correlation during the Little Ice Age, researchers compared the core data with proxies for precipitation data, such as data from tree rings, cave formations and other natural records.

It included graphs that appeared to show a remarkably close correlation between solar activity and terrestrial temperatures — suggesting that other factors, such as carbon dioxide levels, have little influence on global temperatures.

The reverse correlation was also true, as exposure to light at night was a factor in gaining weight (another reason to make sure you have a dark sleep environment), but as little as half an hour of sun exposure before noon was enough to have an effect on reducing body weight.

The live blood analysis shows little correlation between diet and radiation, yet this writer acts as though it has been proven effective against radiation.

And although there is a robust positive correlation between test performance and college enrollment, there is little existing evidence as to whether schools that increase test scores the most also help their students succeed at the next level.

The study finds little correlation between teacher retention and personal demographics, preparation pathway or degree, or even student and school factors such as poverty rate or grades taught.

He also ignores the reality that the education spending has continued to increase for the past five decades, and that much of the troubles with American public education has little do with money than with the fact that so much school funding is trapped by practices such as degree - and seniority - based pay scales for teachers that have no correlation with improving student achievement.

Slightly exaggeratingly they argued that ETFs could be a threat to the financial system and that some ETFs were too complicated to be traded by private investors as the securities had little correlation with the indices they were tracking.

Let's not forget, passive can beat active can beat truly active for long periods (hence the more recent performance of ETFs vs. mutual funds vs. hedge funds)... as frustrating as it can be, it's important to remember there's little correlation between the work you put into your portfolio & your actual short - term returns.

The adorable little ball of yellow goodness is categorized as a «Mouse» Pokémon, and its name would suggest a correlation to the pika, but as it turns out, Pikachu was primarily inspired by another animal: the squirrel.

The work by Vinther and colleagues in Southern Greenland is therefore key to helping calibrate the Greenland ice core records, and impressively, the correlations to the older data are as good as to the recent record, allowing us to have a little more confidence in the even longer term proxy data for this region.

Africa is a good case study on this - there is a direct correlation between for - market farming and environmental problems, while more traditional farming methods (subsistence farming, which would be better described as «needs plus») have little impact (and in some cases can be shown to be beneficial to the environment).

Predicting climate behavior by fabricating correlations with little understanding of the system as a whole does require certain parts of the brain to go dead.

It is demonstrably false to say CO2 is a bigger «causal factor» than WV when there is little correlation between CO2 levels and temperature as I point out at comment 227 above.

As shown in figure 2e, f, the spread is very large for both of these metrics, and there is little correlation, except for the rapidly declining emission pathways (grey diamonds) appearing to the right of the slowly declining pathways (black crosses), as explained earlieAs shown in figure 2e, f, the spread is very large for both of these metrics, and there is little correlation, except for the rapidly declining emission pathways (grey diamonds) appearing to the right of the slowly declining pathways (black crosses), as explained earlieas explained earlier.

To see this correlation a little better, I've reversed the sign so that weaker Trade Winds are shown as positive values and stronger Trade Winds are shown as negative values.

I think much can be learned from messing around with these sorts of «toys», although as pointed out by many of the earlier comments, models of our climate system have little or no correlation to what goes on in the real world.

In no other science would their weak correlations and claims of existence of interdependent cycles based upon little more than raw periodograms be accepted as rigorous «evidence» for their conjectures.

Hopefully I can answer my own question, as Rob Wilson said in the Yamal substitution thread, he included Yamal RCS along with Polar Urals because it had a slightly better correlation with local temperature (his calculations were a little different from Steve's).

Such NMR doesn't naturally give the same kind of pretty every - atom - in - its - fixed - place pictures as X-ray crystallography, but it gives a great volume of weird detailed little constraints and correlations which could be cross-checked against a model.

Despite this correlation, law firms in the United States generally have shown little interest in adopting formal knowledge management initiatives as part of their overall management strategies.

While, the correlation between drug misuse and homelessness has been noted in a number of research studies there is little specific evidence as to the extent of drug misuse among the homeless population in Ireland.