Sentences with phrase «by only studying»

For astronomers, attempting to understand the life cycles of planetary systems using existing examples is like trying to learn how people grow from babies to children to teenagers, by only studying adults.

In addition to these associations (which several studies found), secure attachment style was also linked to lower distress levels by the only study to explore this relationship.

Not exact matches

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

Although these calculators are plentiful on the internet, only 4 in 10 workers report that they or their spouse have ever tried to estimate how much money they'll need, a recent study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found.

According to a 2014 business outcomes study by the MicroMentor program, mentored businesses were able to increase revenue by 83 percent, while those going it alone only experienced a 16 percent increase.

According to a study by George Washington University and Zignal Labs, Sanders is the only candidate whose «echo» across the Internet has actually increased since his initial announcement of his bid for the presidency.

Unfortunately, there was only one study backing green coffee's alleged weight - loss capabilities, and it was funded by the extract's manufacturer.

Studies by Dr. Albert Mehrabian, indicate that 55 percent of communication is conveyed though facial expressions, gestures and posture, 38 percent is conveyed through tone and only 7 percent comes through the actual words.

The rise of companies like Uber and Instacart is only part of a larger trend in the ways Americans work, away from full - time employment and toward «contingent» freelance jobs, according to a new study by financial services company Intuit and consulting firm Emergent Research.

According to a 2016 study by the Broadbent Institute, only half of Canadian couples aged 55 to 64 had an employer pension to share between them; of those lacking a pension, less than 20 % had saved enough to pad out government old - age payments.

As detailed in a study by Harvard Business professor Dennis Campbell, TD revolutionized the way it measured the in - bank experience, streamlining its customer satisfaction survey and using a massive pool of customer data to find out not only how customers felt about their banking experience, but also what specific elements of «satisfaction» mattered most to them.

There's even a small study coauthored by Holmes and published in an online journal that compares Theranos test results with traditional tests favorably, though it looks only at results for one characteristic of blood among six people.

The international figures aren't much better: According to a 142 - country study conducted by Gallup in 2013, only 13 % of global workers feel engaged and committed to their work.

In fact, one study published in The BMJ reported that only 46 percent of Oz's claims were supported by science.

Only 14 % to 18 % of reported sexual assaults are prosecuted, according to a study by the University of Kentucky.

Indeed, according to another study by Catalyst, only 10.3 % of board seats in this country are held by women.

In a recent study by PR and marketing firm Cone Communications, 46 percent of respondents said they'd like to be able to solve problems and receive product or service information via new media, but only 14 percent said they're «very satisfied» with their experiences with companies or brands online.

A recent study by McKinsey found that not only is email three times more likely to result in conversion than social media, but the average purchase price is 17 percent higher as well.

Some 40 percent of Americans make New Year's resolutions, but only about 8 percent of us achieve them, according to a study by the University of Scranton.

His investment philosophies, introduced almost forty years ago, are not only studied and applied by today's financiers and investors, but are also regarded by many as gospel.

In fact, the authors of the study, who looked at wage data covering all U.S. companies from 1978 to 2012, found that the wage gap between the average worker at individual companies and the highest ranking executives (CEOs and other C - suiters) at those firms had only grown by a «small amount» in the past three - and - a-half decades.

Only 2.7 % of venture funding currently goes to female CEOs, according to a 2014 study by Babson College.

The study highlighted by Wilding is fascinating, but it's not the only bit of research breaking the umbrella term «burnout» down into subcategories.

A study published by Marketing Land found that only 20 percent of CMOs leverage social networks for engaging with customers.

Not only did the vast majority Americans» net - worth tumble during the recession, for 93 % of households, it continued to slide during the first two years of the recovery as well, a recent study by the Pew Research Center found.

While there's only an 4 percent gap in pay in design roles studied by Hired.com, that grows to 8 percent for software engineers.

The study, which wasn't named in Hollauf's column, found that subjects spent an average of only 31 seconds on their schoolwork before getting distracted by another task.

A 2015 study by the Pew Research Center found that only 27 percent of 65 - plus adults own a smartphone.

According to a recent study conducted by Harvard University, which polled young adults between the ages of 18 and 29, not so good: 51 percent of survey respondents said they do not support capitalism, and only 42 percent were in favor of it.

The New York Times» Margot Sanger - Katz points out that earlier studies by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)-- the independent scorekeepers who keep tabs on how legislation affects the budget and the country and whose report on the GOP repeal - and - replace effort last week sent Obamacare opponents into disarray — found that simply repealing Obamacare would only lead to 23 million fewer uninsured Americans.

A study last year by the C.D. Howe Institute suggested that one out of every 10 mortgage - indebted households in Canada was «extremely vulnerable» to an economic or financial shock — a figure that's likely only increased since.

Not only would there be a huge human factor to consider in sending them back to countries with which most aren't familiar, but the cost to our economy could be staggering: According to a Center for American Progress study earlier this year, the estimated loss of DACA workers would reduce U.S. GDP by $ 433 billion over the next 10 years, with California, Texas and Illinois being hit hardest.

According to a recent study by the National Foundation for Women Business Owners (NFWBO), only 28 % of female owners of fast - growth companies financed their businesses using equity capital.

In a study on retirement readiness published in 2011 by the National Bureau of Economic Research, only half the respondents could correctly answer a question on diversification and risk, and only two - thirds appeared to understand compound interest.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

«Horrific mass killings receive the most media attention, but as can be seen by the numbers, they only represent a small portion of the total costs - human and medical - of gun injuries in the United States,» said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, who was not involved with the study.

Among U.S. recruiters, 70 percent have rejected candidates based on their online reputation — and yet only 7 percent of Americans believe that their online reputation can affect their job search, according to a 2010 study by Microsoft and Cross-Tab Market Research.

The U.S. and Papua New Guinea are the only countries among 185 nations and territories that hadn't imposed government - mandated laws requiring employers to pay mothers while on leave with their babies, according to a study released last year by the United Nations» International Labor Organization.

One study by the U.S. National Institute of Justice found that «after only 20 minutes of watching and evaluating monitor screens, the attention of most individuals has degenerated to well below acceptable levels.»

A study conducted at the University of Sussex in England found that only six minutes of reading was enough of a distraction to reduce participants» stress levels by 68 percent.

Yet a recent study by InboundWriter shows only 10 to 20 percent of a company's website content drives 90 percent of its online traffic.

Duke University professor and sociologist Jeffrey Swanson, who specializes in studying the link between violence and mental illness, told Vox that even if everyone who suffers from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression in the US were cured overnight, violent crime in the US would only fall by around 4 %.

Hiring the right person at a startup is the difference between success and failure — 46 percent of employees will fail within 18 months of being hired and only 19 percent are deemed an unequivocal success, according to a study by Leadership IQ.

These executives» frustrations are reflected in the results of a new study by McKinsey & Co. that shows that only 42 % of employers believe new graduates in the workforce are adequately prepared by their colleges or other pre-employment training programs.

Not only does the study lay out the areas with the highest absolute numbers of grads (the usual big - city suspects like New York, L.A., Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Boston top the list), but it also compares cities by the concentration of grads among residents.

A recent study by the Boston Consulting Group concluded that within the next five years, the total cost of production in many coastal Chinese cities will only be 10 % to 15 % less than in some parts of the U.S..

PsyBlog recently rounded up a long list of them culled from a journal article on the subject (though the post notes that some of these ideas are only supported by preliminary studies and require more research).

By studying thousands of people, Rock found that we are truly focused for an average of only six hours per week.

Generation Z, those born 1997 to present, now represent 27 percent of the U.S. population, a larger group than Millennials, and although only older Gen Zs are entering adulthood, their impact on the food industry is already being felt, finds a new study by The NPD Group, a leading global information company.

Only 36 % of middle - income families and 29 % of low - income families are putting money away for their kids» college fund, according to a study by Sallie Mae.