Sentences with phrase «fiddle factor»
The phrase "fiddle factor" refers to the tendency or likelihood of people to make mistakes or intentionally manipulate things when working with complex systems or processes. It implies a human element that can introduce errors or biases, causing problems or discrepancies. Full definition
The whole idea of «efficacies» is just doubling the number of unconstrained fiddle factors in the modelling process which already has so many and to render it totally useless for anything except claiming the need for more funds for future work.
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Our testing showed that no matter which one bottle warmer you are using, it will include a bit of a fiddle factor.
The committee also uncovered what it calls a fiddle factor that the department has been using to adjust its forecasts upwards by between 12 and 27 per cent.
Simon Williams waxes sniffily about the arbitrarily set «fiddle factor» in Petr Horava's theory on how to unify quantum theory...
There are times when you get a weird modeling result and you can't find the problem so you rationalize it or add a fiddle factor.