Their defense has been almost identically stingy, with an efficiency rating just
decimal points higher than last year's.
Not exact matches
I'm seeing people at like a
point level, like a
decimal point level when they should be hundreds of times
higher.
It all started when German scientist Emil von Wolff misplaced a
decimal point and accidently gave spinach an iron content ten times
higher than it actually had.
If application of the
Points earned scale leads to
Points with a
decimal fraction, the number of
Points credited will be the next lowest whole number if the number after the
decimal point is less than 5 and the next
highest number if the
decimal is equal to or more than 5.
Such solecisms throughout the IPCC's assessment reports (including the insertion, after the scientists had completed their final draft, of a table in which four
decimal points had been right - shifted so as to multiply tenfold the observed contribution of ice - sheets and glaciers to sea - level rise), combined with a heavy reliance upon computer models unskilled even in short - term projection, with initial values of key variables unmeasurable and unknown, with advancement of multiple, untestable, non-Popper-falsifiable theories, with a quantitative assignment of unduly
high statistical confidence levels to non-quantitative statements that are ineluctably subject to very large uncertainties, and, above all, with the now - prolonged failure of TS to rise as predicted (Figures 1, 2), raise questions about the reliability and hence policy - relevance of the IPCC's central projections.
During the study, adherence was assessed by coding a random selection of sessions on the DBT Global Rating Scale (M.M.L., unpublished work, 2003), which codes DBT adherence on a 5 -
point scale (to 1
decimal point), with a score of 4.0 or
higher denoting adherence.