Sentences with phrase «clear about the assumptions»

«Be really clear about the assumptions you're making about the business you're going into, and check those assumptions as quickly as you can — whether it's building a prototype and testing it with people, or just talking to other people in the industry.

Be clear about the assumptions that you make about your own organisation when deciding what services to purchase.

He is very clear about his assumptions.

Not exact matches

Arrow and Debreu were able to show the existence of an equilibrium between supply and demand in a free, competitive economy — but they also made clear that this could only exist if a given set of assumptions about the economy and consumer behavior were true.

With two more rate hikes potentially on the horizon in 2017, we also believe now is a good time to clear up a few wrong assumptions some market watchers are making about rate normalization.

With two more Fed hikes potentially on the horizon in 2017, Rick clears up a few wrong assumptions some market watchers are making about rate normalization.

Just to be clear about the incident when I was 18: some of the members had been refusing to associate with non-members, or let their children play with them, on the assumption that «those people» didn't share our same values.

Still, the context of this sentence becomes clearer when he talks about how the value - laden «paradigms and assumptions» of the social sciences and humanities have contributed to the problematic conditioning of our understanding of education.

In this regard it is clear that moral education, even in its diversity and its oppositions, is more a story about the legitimation of American culture than it is about its transformation; as in every generation in America, the substance of moral education has reflected the central assumptions and ideals of the prevailing zeitgeist.

The cause of this uneasiness becomes clearer if we question Ignatieff's argument at several points: the validity of the moral paradigm itself, the assumptions from which he proceeds, the inconsistencies in how he describes the limits to be observed in doing the «lesser evil,» and his conclusions about specific elements of the war on terror.

I am clear about my basic assumptions about child development and child raising based on millions of years of evidence, unlike the people who publish articles that conclude it is all right to stress babies and deny them their evolved needs — with very little evidence.

If you read the Reed / Horton September report, you will see it is very clear about the modelling assumptions necessary.

Talk to people in Northern Ireland, and they are clear: the assumption was always that one day, all details held by the Electoral Commission about donations from 2014 onward would one day be published.

Algebra for Everyone Algebra for Everyone is a 67 page booklet (including answers), written in clear, easy to understand English and makes no assumptions about your prior mathematical knowledge (apart from being able to +, -, x, ÷).

What is clear, however, is that social stereotypes can play a crucial role as teachers build assumptions about their students and their future performance.

Clear up your assumptions about the coupon industry with these 23 fascinating statistics the CreditDonkey team has uncovered.

Pop Art offered a clear contrast to abstract expressionism, then the dominant movement in American art and artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others of their generation challenged a whole range of assumptions about what fine art should be.

While this work is just beginning, one thing is clear is that the models are very sensitive to assumptions about a few pivotal technologies.

All the more reason to be clear about errors and assumptions when giving the «headline» numbers....]

Even under optimistic assumptions about timing and baseline scenarios, it's clear that little if any large - scale production of biofuels or biomass anywhere in the world even approaches carbon - neutrality.

However, a clear understanding of how national emissions reductions commitments affect global climate change impacts requires an understanding of complex relationships between atmospheric ghg concentrations, likely global temperature changes in response to ghg atmospheric concentrations, rates of ghg emissions reductions over time and all of this requires making assumptions about how much CO2 from emissions will remain in the atmosphere, how sensitive the global climate change is to atmospheric ghg concentrations, and when the international community begins to get on a serious emissions reduction pathway guided by equity considerations.

It's now clear that Mitch Taylor was right to be skeptical of sea ice models based on pessimistic climate change assumptions; he was also right to be more optimistic than his PBSG colleagues about the ability of polar bears to adapt to changing sea ice conditions (Taylor and Dowsley 2008), since the bears have turned out to be more resilient than even he expected.

As I see it this is a clear warning for why we should not be making assumptions about our levels of understanding.

It's an intriguing paper, not least because of what it reveals about the authors» framing of the climate change discourse (they use a clear «us vs. them» framing), their assumptions about the aims and scope of climate science, and their awareness of past research.

And if there is a clear conversation in advance about what the assumptions and expectations are, what the scope of work based upon those assumptions entails, what work might fall outside of the original scope and what circumstances might create that work, there should be no issue when the «unforeseen» actually does arise and no problem securing an additional fee.

In Mulholland, before the hearing of an appeal, it became clear that assumptions about the cost of the appellant's nursing care were wrong.

At a moment at which there are many serious criticisms of liberalism and / or questions about its future, combined with substantial unanimity among legal academics about various progressive values (as seen, to be clear, through an establishment lens) and the routine invocation in current scholarly and public writing of things like «rule of law,» faith in judicial review, and so on, there is a lot of room for interesting and valuable work questioning those assumptions and premises.

To be clear, in order to make this ROI claim we included billing performance assumptions (assumptions about payer adjustments, appeals success and other factors) since our people and expertise and technology are more expensive than hiring inexpensive billing clerks.

She makes it clear that the review is carried out in a research context in which the quality but not the quantity of evaluation studies is limited, measurement is typically focused on children's cognitive gains (not socio - emotional gains), and assumptions are made about the rigour of the program implementation and the adequacy of family retention in the programs.

Fact: «The sheer prevalence of the problem of violence and the dynamics surrounding it make it clear any assumptions about equal partnership in these cases are out of the question... the majority of women never report the assaults or in fact ever tell anyone about it (Johnson, 1996) and thus may not be believed if the first time the issue is raised is at the point of separation... may avoid going to court out of fear of retaliation, a fear which is not unfounded given the data on the escalation of violence at separation... agree to whatever the husband wants in an attempt to pacify him... as an exchange for custody... may appear unstable or emotional while their batterers are perceived as confident, rational and economically secure (Rosnes, 1997)... all the research flies in the face of what Rosnes argues is presently happening in the courts:»... judges assume that wife abuse is not necessarily damaging to a child, and that being violent does not necessarily affect a father's parenting ability....

If you're clear about how to meet your partner's sexual needs, and you both talk about it and exchange ideas, you'll have a better chance of succeeding, as less room for assumption is created.