Sentences with phrase «better than random chance»

But in a study where Gottman's videos were shown to clergymen, and therapists, and other people who you would assume would be able to identify this kind of thing, they were unable to predict better than random chance which couples eventually divorced.

Researcher Eli Finkel argues that the algorithms they use are really no better than random chance because the idea that the person we should be seeking out is our doppelgänger ends up leading us astray.

So their confidence is slightly better than random chance (50 %) in determining the answer to a binary question.

But even with such training, the untamed foxes had no better than a random chance of finding the hidden food.

Not exact matches

A recent winner — a fund whose performance put it in the top quartile in 2013 among portfolios with the same investment objective — had only a 56 percent chance of doing better than average in 2014, barely better than you would expect by random chance.

If you want to truly, finally transform your physique completely to overcome your potentially poor muscle gain genetics and leave your hardgainer status behind for good (which is 100 % possible no matter what others may have wrongly told you), asking advice on bodybuilding from any random personal trainer or some big guy at the gym who likely has better muscle gain genetics than you (or unnatural help in some cases if we're being honest) isn't the smartest course of action because chances are they don't understand how you can fully transform your physique as they weren't a hardgainer themselves in the first place.

In fact, the research suggests that so - called «matching algorithms» are only negligibly better at matching people than random chance.»

This is best achieved through random assignment to treatment conditions, which assures (within the margin of error associated with the sample size) that differences between groups of subjects other than their experience of treatment are evened out by the laws of chance.

They concluded that the net excess returns (after fees) of the active fund management community were no better than what would be expected by random chance.

The fact that every year this decade except 2008 has been among the 10 warmest and that 17 of the top 20 hotest years on record have been in the past 20 years (the others were all in the»80s) precludes random chance at better than 95 % confidence even with red or pink noise!

And while nothing can be completely guaranteed in the stock market, investors who diversify their holdings in the markets and hold them for the long term tend to have a better chance of making money than those who buy and sell random securities in the short term hoping to «strike it rich».