Sentences with phrase «guess estimate of»

Generally how target date funds work is a fund company will have a set of different funds for an investor to pick from depending on a best guess estimate of when the investor wants to retire.

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If you multiply that by the estimated number of galaxies in the observable universe (10 trillion is a modest guess) you get a number that is 1 with 24 zeroes after it: 1 septillion.

Mind you, that January 2008 estimate of Q3: 2007 real GDP growth was already the third revision of the October 2007 first guess by the Bureau of Economic Analysis of Q3: 2007 real GDP growth.

Liu estimates the Big Apple has a marijuana market of $ 1.65 billion — though any estimate of illicit markets, given that there is no standardization of pricing and a lack of reliable figures of supply and demand, are always very rough guesses.

In all of these business projections, a good business plan has estimated guesses, explaining assumptions and drivers of how these numbers are expected to change in the future.

But the estimates show that the MBA degree — despite all the second - guessing over its value since the Great Recession — is one of the surest paths to a lucrative career.

The company did quite a bit of research into prices at other services and did its best to estimate potential costs when creating its price structure, but in the end, some of those decisions were simply educated guesses, Nagele says.

To prove which anti-Semites cite estimates guessing that a third to a half of the lawyers in New York City and at least a third of the doctors are Jews.

There are some significant limitations, partly due to accounting rules and partly due to the terribly inaccurate estimates most investors conjure out of thin air when guessing future growth rates.

My best guess is that one should start with reported GDP growth and subtract from it your best estimate of the amount of debt in each period that should be written down to zero.

Then the investigators asked respondents anonymously to estimate how many of their fellow scientists had engaged in fraudulent behavior, and promised them that the more accurate their guesses, the larger a contribution would be made to the charity of their choice.

These figures are only estimates based on the available census figures and informed guesses as to the percentage of Muslims in the population.

The fact that the same plane is often used for both work and play makes estimates difficult, but a good guess is that 25 % of all general aviation flying is devoted to recreation and sport.

While her guesses may be way off, you're introducing her to the concepts of weight and estimating.

Responding to another resident's question about whether the dog park would increase the number of coyotes — estimated at six — frequenting the area in the morning, Connolly said, «My guess is the coyotes won't want to be near there.»

Remember, due dates are only estimated guesses of when a baby should be born.

After months of hypotheticals, estimating, researching and best guesses I finally get to put my newborn cloth diaper stash to work!

What they don't tell you is that baby sleep researchers are forced to base their estimates of average sleep requirements on «best guesses» and that baby sleep norms vary greatly from culture to culture, study to study.

Still, most parents want at least a rough estimate of how long it will take to potty train, and you can probably guess if you know your child well.

Alas, they'll be on tape, so we won't see a tag - team deathmatch (which would no doubt be less painful than much of the campaign so far), but that didn't stop young Mr. Delaney from giving his estimate of the winner: «I don't even want to venture a guess who would come out on top, probably Hillary.

«We really don't know what these trends will be after a period of several decades,» he said during a U.N. press conference on the population survey, explaining that the estimates reflect a best guess based on the future resembling the past.

However, the lack of data and the uncertainties of climate change make any estimate feel like a rough guess.

Others have made estimates both drastically shorter and longer, but this is the one term of the equation where our guesses are truly guesses.

To do so, the researchers offered participants fake details about other people's guesses and allowed them to change their estimate in light of that information.

Galton analyzed hundreds of estimates and found that while individual guesses varied wildly, the median of the entries was surprisingly accurate and within one percent of the ox's real weight.

He quoted a 1980 estimate by «experts» of 8 metres, the «best guess» of the IPCC, made in 1990, of 65 centimetres and a current «authoritative estimate» of 20 cm.

Turns out that seeing others» estimates led to a lot of second guessing.

The participants revised most of their estimates the second time around, but 79 percent of those tested paid much more attention when their actual risk was lower than what they had initially guessed.

In the story, a bunch of people all guess the animal's weight, and the average of their guesses turns out to be generally more reliable than any one person's estimate.

When psychologists Emily Balcetis of New York University and David Dunning of Cornell University asked people to estimate how far away a bottle of water was, those who were thirsty guessed it was closer than nonthirsty people did.

The estimate listed in 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is 3.6 to 8.1 degrees F, with a best guess of 5.4 degrees.

Their range of 2.3 - 7.7 % loss, with a best guess of 4 %, is slightly higher than Cornell's estimate of 2.2 - 3.8 % for shale - gas drilling and production.

But with the development of semi-automated computerized methods, several notable radiologists have expressed concern that while radiologists can guess - estimate the percentage of dense breast tissue, they are using 2D (surface - area - based) information to assess 3D tissue.

It does indeed contain the 0.64 cents / kWh figure cited by Lomborg, in a table labeled «Estimates and Best Guesses of Damages» with a footnote and accompanying text indicating that the figure is some sort of average of a considerable range of values presented in the report, which extend from at least 8 times smaller to at least 150 times larger.

In addition, a wide range of forcing schemes designed to span the approximate range of uncertainties associated with anthropogenic climate forcing estimates were generated and implemented in order to assess what differences in effects exist between the «best guess» counter-anthropogenic geoengineering forcing scheme and other plausible schemes.

After analyzing hundreds of estimates the statistician found that while individual guesses varied wildly, the median of the entries was surprisingly... -LSB-...]

The procedure described above was repeated 1000 times while randomly shuffling the labels corresponding to the data in each training fold to estimate a null distribution of cross-validated prediction accuracies corresponding to what would be achieved by random guessing.

There is no estimate, even probabilistically, as to the likelihood of any emissions scenario and no best guess.»

While there are lots of ways to estimate your VO2 max, they are all either very complicated, require sophisticated equipment and / or testing protocols or are nothing better than an educated guess.

Today, estimates are that 10 to 20 percent of women have PCOS, and I would guess that among young women the number is even higher, qualifying this as an epidemic.

Sugar consumption estimates are loosely based on expert guesses of how much of the various sweetener - laden foods bought are actually eaten, versus how much are thrown away.

Because self - employed people don't have an employer withholding taxes from their paychecks and sending them to the IRS, they are required to estimate their taxes each year and send in a quarter of that amount, you guessed it, each quarter.

Hosted by John Bonini, head of growth at Litmus, Rudder talks about his estimate that the Match Group site creates around 30,000 first dates every day, which he believes could lead, as an educated guess, to around 200 marriages.

I visited the PSRS benefit estimate calculator and plugged in these figures along with Adams» years of service and his approximate birthdate (I had to guess).

When asked where the U.S. ranked relative to other countries in math, the average answer made by a nationally representative sample of Americans surveyed by Ednext was 19, a pretty good guess and barely higher than the official estimate offered by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which reported that the United States stood somewhere between 22 and 28.

Graduation Rates - When asked to estimate the percent of ninth - graders who graduate within four years of entering ninth grade, Americans on average offer a pessimistic guess of 66 percent, 9 percent below the U.S. Department of Education's official national estimate.

Once you get the results, have students compare the results of their estimated guess with the actual number of seeds in the apple.

But when asked, the respondents estimated per - pupil expenditures in their local school district, they guessed, on average, just $ 6,307 — about half of what was actually spent.

My truck says the estimated mileage is 15 city / 21 hwy I drive normal and my mpg highway is 16 mpg and city 12 this has been my worst truck in fuel consumption, you can even see a dirty black tailpipe, dealer says, if it does not show codes it is fine it drives great and I like it except the mpg and no dic switch for a Lt I guess as not to scare us for the estimated mileage it was going to show honestly, if I had known of this poor mpg I would still be buying ford trucks, they always gave about 19 to 23 mpg my wife love it and at the same time hate it because it didn't came with running boards like all my other Fords other than that it is a great truck with poor mpg

And when it comes to storing all your stuff, the Nook boasts twice the storage of the Paperwhite, 4 GB (~ 2,000 books by B&N s estimate) to the Kindle's 2 GB (~ 1,100 books by Amazon's guess).