Sentences with phrase «has little correlation»

On a budget of $ 500 billion, that means $ 50 billion is paid out every year for something that has little correlation with student achievement.

Instead of focusing on the learner's growth, grading appears to be a system that has little correlation to the individual's learning journey.

In other words, how or where or what you do about your child sleeping when they're a baby has little correlation with your lives when your child is 6.

But many startups fail each year; a founder's background has little correlation with success.

Bonds have historically had little correlation to equities except in market crisis situations, so creating a portfolio of both equities and bonds makes a whole lot of sense as a long - term investor.

Sometimes, the payments for Executive Chamber jobs come from entities that seem to have little correlation to the person's job duties in the governor's office.

Cuomo's vetoes had little correlation to the support for a bill in the Legislature.

And though the Globes have little correlation with the Oscars, a handful of movies came away with big wins.

Slightly exaggeratingly they argued that ETFs could be a threat to the financial system and that some ETFs were too complicated to be traded by private investors as the securities had little correlation with the indices they were tracking.

The first is that a truly diversified portfolio must include asset classes that have little correlation (or even some negative correlation) with stocks.

This definitely suggests a happy medium — concentration is good, but this inability to pick the winner is a great reminder that a greater selection of stocks may just yield more pleasant surprises... To put it another way, I've seen v little correlation between my rankings of upside potential vs. the rankings of actual near - medium term performance.

Talking to real people, views on climate have little correlation with other political views.

The Supreme Court also claimed that it was unrealistic of the government to expect those on lower incomes to pay fees which seemed to have little correlation to the claim itself.

Not exact matches

There has always been a correlation among creativity, drive and a little bit of nuttiness, particularly in entrepreneurs.

I recognize that the Fund may have little or no correlation to the MSCI EAFE Index for meaningful periods of time in some of these cases the Index will be advancing.

I think it's obvious that if oil had been a little cheaper and easier, the growth would have been greater than it had, and in that sense if oil gets to be expensive, and we still need it desperately,... and there is that correlation between oil prices and economic growth.

Readers have no doubt noticed that numerous inter-market correlations seem to have been suspended lately, and that many things are happening that superficially seem to make little sense (e.g. falling junk bond yields while defaults are surging; the yen rising since the BoJ adopted negative rates; stocks rising amid a persistent decline in earnings growth; bonds, gold and stocks moving in unison, etc., etc.).

We're going to let you in on a little secret: Investors focused on economic growth are wasting their time... If anything, the evidence suggests a negative correlation between equity returns and GDP growth... It may be that the best prices can be had in times of low economic growth, whereas we tend to overpay in a growing economy.

I too am an atheist, or at least agnostic, but I recognize that there are good religious people and bad, that type or lack of religion have very little correlation to the goodness of a human being.

The starting to advance age is a little concerning to me if he played more as a speed merchant earlier in his career (no idea if that is the case since I have never seen him play, just speculating given his small stature and playing at wide positions) as their production generally declines more quickly in correlation with age.

I have worked (and been friends with) both «younger» and «older» parents and frankly have seen little correlation between the age (or even planning) of parenthood and a parent's responsiveness or choice to employ AP principles.

These behaviours have little direct correlation with the nutritional needs of an infant and such advice would never be given by a knowledgeable doctor.

The EU proposals are based on claims that more than five people die on roads every day due to technical failures, but the BMF say that other statistics show that there is little correlation in fatality rates between member states that have motorcycle RWTs and those that don't.

These better implemented studies showed that marijuana use did not have a significant effect on later harder drug use (in fact, I've always been shocked how little a correlation there was, since there is still a sampling bias here that should find a mild correlation to harder drug use, I'm really shocked there wasn't really found to be any correlation).

They also analyzed data from a climate model developed by the Max - Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany to predict what the correlation between the current and rainfall would be expected to be during the Little Ice Age.

It included graphs that appeared to show a remarkably close correlation between solar activity and terrestrial temperatures — suggesting that other factors, such as carbon dioxide levels, have little influence on global temperatures.

That correlation enabled them to extrapolate an estimate for the seabird population for the entire island — 6,000 breeding pairs — something that in the past has been little more than a simple guess.

Build a lot in the Midwest, you know, build some a little more north than you would otherwise, some way down in Texas to cut the correlation.

Statin use is widespread in middle - aged and older individuals, who also have an increased risk of AMD; however, previous studies have shown very little correlation between regular statin use and improvements in AMD.

The causation vs. correlation issue is perhaps a little easier to discuss than big ethical questions that involve changing the germline DNA of human beings because ethical questions do not usually have a scientific answer, let alone a right answer.

While research once found that married people were happier across the board, that conversation has shifted recently — and these days, it seems there's actually very little correlation between being happy and coupling up.

The reverse correlation was also true, as exposure to light at night was a factor in gaining weight (another reason to make sure you have a dark sleep environment), but as little as half an hour of sun exposure before noon was enough to have an effect on reducing body weight.

The live blood analysis shows little correlation between diet and radiation, yet this writer acts as though it has been proven effective against radiation.

Although the researchers were pleased — and a little surprised — to see the findings so clearly support their hypothesis, the study is just the first in a series they have planned to continue exploring the mind - gut connection, including another examination of the data to see whether a correlation exists between fermented food intake and autism symptoms, said Hilimire.

LA TIMES - May 14 - Some psychologists and sociologists who have studied usage habits on Twitter, Facebook and dating sites say there's little correlation between how people act on the Internet and how they are in person.

Previous studies of pay - for - performance systems in public schools have found little to no correlation between merit - based pay and teacher performance.

He also ignores the reality that the education spending has continued to increase for the past five decades, and that much of the troubles with American public education has little do with money than with the fact that so much school funding is trapped by practices such as degree - and seniority - based pay scales for teachers that have no correlation with improving student achievement.

Studies that have been conducted show little correlation between tests and standards (e.g., Smith, 1997).

«Today's vote to move Senate Bill 455 forward is a move in the right direction for Connecticut schools, and can eliminate barriers to teaching that have little or no correlation with a teacher's job performance or positive impact on kids,» said Jen Alexander, chief executive officer of ConnCAN (Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now).

Here in Atlanta there is no shortage of Toyota / Lexus shops capable of great work Over the years we've noticed very little correlation between a shop's ability to do great work and the overall work product of the shop Having the ability is only part of the equation Each technician has to want to do great work For this they have to love what they do In addition to being passionate about our work we're also pretty passionate about the brand we work on — believing that Toyota and Lexus make the most rugged dependable vehicles on the planet And while we don't expect every customer to share this level of passion for their Toyota or Lexus we have found our customers to be a bit more discerning in how their vehicle is treated — whether it's here for an oil change or a frame - off restoration

Much like the pattern in U.S. data, year - over-year changes in World EPS have very little correlation with the short - term returns of the MSCI World price index.

There's little doubt that the two have been related, but the seemingly impressive strength of the correlation is completely an artifact of the shared upward slope.

This, for us, is a critical requirement for investors, because there are dozens of garbage models that purport to measure stock market valuation, but have little (and sometimes zero or negative) correlation with subsequent market performance.

Provide a wide range of asset classes (excluding equities) that, historically, have little to no correlation with equities; thus, one is able to hedge against stock risk without relying on a single asset, leverage, shorting or inverse products.

I recognize that the Fund may have little, no, or negative correlation to the general market for meaningful periods of time, and in some of these cases the general market will be advancing.

The Fund may have little or no correlation with general market fluctuations for meaningful periods of time.

Because of their hedged construction, the carry, momentum, and value factors have very little correlation with most exposures to asset classes and traditional risk factors.

This is one of the enduring paradoxes of investing: effort has very little correlation with outcome.

This return is more impressive when you consider the fund's beta of.25, meaning it has very little correlation to the S&P 500 index with very low volatility.

Really, it would be better to break the world down by industry, but there is enough correlation within nations that this characterization works, with a little hand - waving.