Sentences with phrase «based on a hunch»

You'll get different answers from different people across the team, because the idea of a «target buyer» is inconsistent, nebulous, and often based on hunches and feelings — not data.

Well you can, but to do so, the personas you develop need to be grounded in analytical data, not based on hunches.

Rather than piling into distressed strategies based on a hunch about the cycle turning, LPs may be better off diversifying by type of manager.

The proposal developed in this book is based on a hunch that discussions of theological schooling and proposals to reform it might get further if some of the assumptions and many of the terms conventionally used in the discussions were changed.

«Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled as I do, and might be happy to tag along with me on this search for clarity, for precision.»

However, the «word on the street» kind of information seems to be opinions, based on hunches, based on knowing what people are like or how they are inclined.

He didn't just choose to sign the fullback from Dallas based on a hunch, or, one game he covered for television.

I predicted Arsenal may not make the top 4 last season based on my hunch.

It was considered obscene for a man to enter the delivery room, yet they wrote the guidebooks, doling out advice based on hunches handed down over generations.

Although some people are horrified by the idea of cooking lobsters alive, or the practice of tearing claws from live crabs before tossing them back into the sea, such views are based on a hunch.

Tip: Don't make any drastic dietary changes based on a hunch.

After spending a decade experimenting and digging through research at medical libraries I finally refined my diet — not a perfect diet based on hunches, but anyone's perfect diet based on real science.

It's possible that your decision to keep the relationship anonymous is based on a hunch that you can't logically explain.

That's what our jobs come down to: making bets based on hunches.

If you are randomly trading based on a hunch, with no real underlying system, then your odds of success in the longterm are slim.

It was easy to be an investing legend when you were competing against a bunch of crusty yahoos who were committing money based on hunches, rumors and impulses.

Taking trades only based on hunches instead of careful application of a trading method is what I call emotion - based trading.

But investment decisions are often based on hunches at a cocktail party or what's read in a periodical.

In the same way, if you invest based on hunches, intuition or forecasts, you're likely to fare as well as the poker player with the long - shot hand.

They are susceptible to «chasing returns» in the hottest equities, or attempting make a gain based on a hunch — or worse having no strategy at all other than buying whatever stock they feel is «hot».

A Year of Living Generously started as an online experiment based on a hunch: that looking after this planet and its people is what we are all here for, and, that if many of us can make small changes in our everyday choices, then over time we can make a

Everybody says a lot of things, based on hunch or what seems to them to be «common sense.»

He argues that everyone's so focused on Roberts» style they've overlooked the substance of the position: that it would essentially make arrests based on hunches constitutional.

Key Accomplishments • Introduced computer instruments in an environment working solely on manual instruments to gauge calibration problems in auto transmission vehicles • Acted as the prime source of information in an accident, by providing key information on which side the fault was • Diagnosed an engine failure based on a hunch (derived from a sound coming from the truck engine when the ignition was switched on), saving the vehicle and the people inside from a major fire hazard • Handled 32 road calls in one day, during Blizzard Jonas, and proved invaluable in ascertaining that all vehicle owners got home safely

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As a parent myself, I can tell you that I have intuitive moments every day (sometimes every hour) when I sense something is awry, but my hunches are based on the fact that my house goes completely silent.

He saw the business opportunity in offering analytics software that would help clients design products based on user behavior rather than on hunches.

Chang attributes the difference to doctors using intensive care based on their habits, hunches or training.

Until now opposition has been based on vague correlations, anecdotal evidence and hunches on the part of people opposed to the pressurized cracking of underground rock formations.

At the end of the day, it's up to you to decide on the time frame to trade based on hard facts and not hunches.

By removing hunches from the selection process, the models are able to identify stable businesses with strong fundamentals based on data, the types of companies that will withstand the ups and downs of the market over the long - term.

Investors should never buy a stock based simply on a hunch that the company may someday be a buyout target.

Thus, we begin selecting investments based on «hunches» or «gut reactions» rather then critically evaluating the investment opportunity with data - driven facts and fundamentals.

I had a hunch, based on my own work with local congregations, that in the «mainline» Protestant world that I know best, lots of laypeople really do want to think seriously about their faith, and somehow they aren't getting enough help in doing that well.

Good starts with the human mindâ $ ™ s conclusions based on experience, selected research, and hunches, and then canonizes which scriptures support these conclusions and rejects the rest.

At least this is my hunch, an impression based on my own contact with church members but confirmed by what others are saying, writing, and feeling.

His proposals regarding religion amount to assertions concocted on the basis of evolutionary hunches rather than conclusions proceeding from carefully constructed arguments.

(Just a hunch based on everything everyone not named John Calipari has ever said about one - and - done's effect on college basketball.)

From this, Rader and colleagues had a hunch, based on their knowledge of SCARB1 function and previous studies in mice, that having the SCARB1 P376L mutation, despite raising HDL, might paradoxically increase the risk of heart disease.

Edwards said that based on what he'd observed during the many hours he'd spent analyzing the mosaics, he had a hunch they would see some evidence for non-random clustering.

Calculations based on those detections confirmed scientists» hunch that unfathomably large numbers of neutrinos are released after a star's core collapses in a supernova.

What are the risks of acting on a hunch that turns out to be totally off base?

Abramson already has a hunch about one factor that will rise to the top, on the basis of unpublished data from his cohort, which started off in those FEMA trailers.

His hunch is based on studies — many done by his former graduate student Brian Hare — comparing domestic animals with their wild relatives.

We found that these hunches are based on something real in the images.

I had a hunch based on this work that microRNA expression would be different in breast cancer stem cells than in more differentiated tumor cells or normal tissue and that it would change as the stem cells differentiated to form a tumor.

In fact, Sclafani told me that they had based their selection of foods on a hunch about what rats preferentially like, and so that's why they included cheese in the list.

In fact, intuition is sometimes even painted as the province of those who are not critical thinkers, and who choose to make decisions based on «hunches» rather than facts.

(The character is based on real - life socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, subject of an upcoming, official biopic — though we have a hunch that Stephen Frears» take on the story will be more frothy than painful.)

For the rest of the category, we've gone with The Shape of Water, on the hunch that it will snap up every nomination available to it, as well as The Greatest Showman, based on the strong history that musicals have in this category — and the fact that everybody likes a surprise on Oscar nomination morning.

Education Secretary Justine Greening has recently appointed Sir Kevan Collins, CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation, as the «evidence champion» who will ensure that decisions on the problem of social mobility are based on rigorous and trustworthy evidence rather than hunches.