Sentences with phrase «because conventional wisdom»

Perhaps this is the case because conventional wisdom says having good managers leads to exceptional company performance.

But because the conventional wisdom discussions will only ever cover the GC and seeking to perfect the provision of legal services to the GC — the end is a certainty.

We just weren't told about that contradictory evidence, because the conventional wisdom, awesome in its power, kept it from us.

The 0.5 % of deaths attributed to climate change amounted to around 150,000, while the causes of the remaining 42,157,155 deaths went largely undiscussed, principally because conventional wisdom informs that «climate change is the biggest threat facing mankind» and «climate change is worse for the poor».

That can seem pedantic, but only because the conventional wisdom about the value of manufacturing spend on hotel co-branded credit cards is roughly correct (Starwood, Hilton, and Wyndham are pretty good, the others are very bad).

It simply «made sense» to many of us, because conventional wisdom shows us that we are slightly longer when we wake up than after a day of gravity compressing our spinal discs, and that hormones in late pregnancy cause a woman's pelvic symphysis to relax or bend so that there is more room for the child exiting the birth canal.

This take is opposite to the conventional wisdom because the conventional wisdom is rooted in the Buy - and - Hold Model of understanding how stock investing works.

But they receive comparatively little attention relative to public colleges and the for - profit sector, perhaps because the conventional wisdom casts private colleges based on the profile of the most elite institutions in the sector, which have large endowments and charge high tuition to mostly wealthy students.

The energy balance model also diverts responsibility back to the consumer because conventional wisdom says that the spike in obesity and diet - related disease is the result of people consuming more foods than ever before.

The energy balance model diverts responsibility back to the consumer because conventional wisdom says the spike in obesity is the result of people consuming more foods than ever before.

That's because the conventional wisdom has long been that most, if not all, ant species carry antimicrobial agents.

Such an approach was needed because conventional wisdom assumed that if national governments merely acted alone, without global coordination, industries would simply relocate to where regulation was more lax.

Galapagos volcanic activity has been difficult to understand, Toomey said, because conventional wisdom and modeling say newer eruptions should be moving ahead of the plate, not unlike the long - migrating Yellowstone hotspot.

For years I've only been able to leave it at envy because conventional wisdom dictates that marketing, lead generation and sales can never operate with such precision.

The other thing I look at is what's happening with college graduates because the conventional wisdom is always that getting more education is the solution to look to for the future.

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Another big part of why Musk, Einstein and Jobs were able to be such original thinkers is because they had a sense of «separateness» — a feeling of being different or disconnected from the crowd, which freed them to reject the conventional wisdom and assumptions that constrained others.

Conventional wisdom would say that the dollar should rise in value if interest rates rise because higher rates suggest higher returns as well as reflect better prospects for the US economy.

The conventional wisdom in the economics community is that the labor force participation rate would have continued to decline even if the great recession never occurred, because as the nation ages the share of retired workers would grow.

While conventional wisdom says the pipeline project is on life support because the next likely government in B.C., a partnership between the NDP and the Greens, is keen on killing it, the B.C. Liberals are not going gently into that good political night.

Mr. Gurley, who cuts a distinctive figure in Silicon Valley in no small part because of his lanky 6 - foot - 9 frame, went against conventional wisdom even before he became an investor.

This is where I start doubting the advice about the stock market tending to generally rise, because we all thought that about housing, and I feel like we got burned again by buying into the conventional wisdom.

Conventional Wisdom # 2: Buffett's purchase of Phillips 66 is also accompanied by a «Buffett premium» because peers Marathon Petroleum and Valero Energy only trade at 8x earnings while Phillips 66 trades at 12x earnings.

This fight will get national media attention because it plays into the conventional wisdom that conservative Republicans don't care about average people....

Walter Payton discarded conventional wisdom and refused to run anything farther than 50 or 100 yards because «that's as far as I'm ever gonna need to run.»

«The findings about fathers and mothers are important because it turns what most of us think is conventional wisdom — that mothers have the most influence on children — on its ear.

«The findings about fathers and mothers are important because it turns... conventional wisdom — that mothers have the most influence on children — on its ear,» he said.

Research on the comparative safety of different birth settings tends to exclude «high - risk» pregnancy; conventional wisdom states that women with «high - risk» pregnancies should plan a hospital birth because they are at higher risk of negative pregnancy outcomes.

But the announcement drew attention in part because it goes against the conventional wisdom that social media marketing and email marketing complement one another and in fact work better in concert.

In fact, most conventional wisdom suggests that legalization actually makes illegal drug cartels less powerful because more legitimate businesses will be able to enter the market.

The conventional wisdom is that she would help Gregg in Marion County as well as with female and independent voters, in part, because of her bi-partisan efforts in the legislature.

Conventional wisdom holds that the Republican holds a distinct advantage because of party enrollment figures.

Conventional wisdom says that this type of sharing could be dangerous career-wise because it leaves researchers vulnerable to being scooped or criticized for posting something incorrect or foolish.

«Conventional wisdom says Earth had few continents because it did not have plate tectonics, which is how continents are made,» Satkoski says.

The finding joins other conclusions of the past few years that run counter to the conventional wisdom that saturated fat is bad for the heart because it increases total cholesterol levels.

Indeed, conventional wisdom held that higher levels of aerosol pollution in the atmosphere should cool the earth's climate because aerosols can increase cloudiness; they not only reduce precipitation, which raises the water content in clouds, but they also increase the size of the individual water droplets, which in turn causes more warming sunlight to be reflected back into space.

Conventional wisdom holds that few U.S. college students ever transfer into a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) field because they lack the necessary academic preparation.

Conventional wisdom has held that in many species, male birds were more colorful because they were competing for female attention, and that female birds were less colorful because they needed camouflage while guarding their nests.

Because there is so much conventional wisdom and general impressions on these issues, I think it's helpful for this paper to focus on a very clear result, which has to do with the differences in cooperation when rank is involved.»

Other scientists just did not believe our results, because they went against conventional wisdom of blood circulation and metabolism in the brain.

MONDAY, Oct. 3, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Conventional wisdom says too much salt is bad because it can lead to high blood pressure.

More amazing to me is that as recent as the 1960's and even 1970's conventional medical wisdom believed that PMS was a problem associated with a woman's «nerves» or «failure to cope», and because medical science could not give a rational «scientific» explanation, PMS was given very little credence and women were treated primarily with antidepressants (and unfortunately many with PMS still are today).

I totally agree with what you presented, and I admire your leadership in this regard, because it is clear that many in the health profession do not want to publicly dissent with the conventional wisdom.

The new study «challenges the conventional wisdom that has demonized saturated fat,» Volek said, because it shows that saturated fats don't need to be replaced at all, neither with carbs nor polyunsaturated fats.

Championing a food and wellness revival, because there is more to health and vitality than conventional wisdom says there is!

This isn't something that you would use, for example, in a hospital environment like an RD or regular nutritionist, because they still subscribe to conventional wisdom about nutrition, such as fat, cholesterol, and red meat being bad for you.

Because in our culture, the conventional wisdom is that women are caretakers.

I am well aware of what conventional wisdom tells me I should do with my short waist; HOWEVER, I actually really enjoy accentuating my short - waistedness, because it makes me look like I have mile - long legs!

Conventional wisdom among awards - watchers holds that La La Land, Moonlight, and Manchester are the three toughest competitors this year, with relatively sunny La La Land ahead by a length or two, if only because the other two split the tear - jerker vote.

[3] The old conventional wisdom may be intuitively appealing because aggregate disability rates — with no adjustments for family income or other student characteristics — are higher for students who are black (1.4 times) or Native American (1.7), and lower for whites (0.9) and Asians (0.5), with Hispanic students about as likely to be identified as the rest of the population.

The conventional wisdom was that the tax credit plan would be attached to a whopping multi-dimensional tax - reform bill, which voucher - squeamish Republicans would vote for because they wanted the other goodies included in the package.