Sentences with phrase «high error rate of»

On the 10fastfingers.com typing test, I hit 102 words per minute, which is slightly slower than normal for me, and I got a very high error rate of 8 percent.

The Fitbit Surge came closest, with an error rate of roughly 27 %, while the PulseOn performed the worst with a shockingly high error rate of 92.6 %.

Not exact matches

A 2013 Federal Trade Commission study found that 20 percent of consumers identified errors on their reports that might affect their score, and 5 percent had an error significant enough that it could result in their paying higher loan rates.

No one ever has been able to explain it well to me, and I therefore think most of these judgements are fraught with biases of all sorts, high error rates, and general silliness.

A credit review cited in the KPMG report found that his mortgages had a lower error rate than those of the other high volume producers on the unit, and there has been no accusation of wrongdoing on his part.

The rate of errors may be even higher today, some evidence suggests, despite the millions of dollars spent on much - touted patient - safety efforts.

The question is which set of mistakes is worse» that is, who will have the higher error rate, the human beings or the drones.

The field of imagination at any rate is broad, ranging from automatic, instinctual, or reflex actions (in which the problem of meaning is virtually, but not entirely, non-existent), to more or less habitual modes of response to «natural signs,» and rising ultimately to sophisticated conceptual activity and various poetic or secondary forms of meaning — making in cultural and social significations.19 In the higher reaches of semiotic activity an increase in imaginative freedom is accompanied by a greater risk of error.

Regarding phlyogeny v. phylogenetics, if what you meant to say was that phylogeny based on morphology has been shown to be false or is confounded by unreasonably high error rates in light of phylogenetic techniques, you're patently incorrect as the prior trees based on morphology have consistently, albeit not perfectly, matched the trees produced by genetic comparisons.

I have said it so many times that the rate of errors caused by a combination of Gab and Kos is far higher higher than that of Per and either of them.

All sorts of hilarious errors — using one type of data (ICD10 code data from «white healthy women» and essentially comparing the best possible data from one set of hospital data related to low - risk births to the worst possible single set of data related to high - risk at - home births)-- if you use the writer's same data source for hospital births but include all comers in 2007 - 2010 (not just low - risk healthy white women), the infant death rate is actually 6.14 per 1000, which is «300 % higher death rate than at - home births!»

«High efficiency and a low error rate are absolutely essential in low - throughput experiments of this sort.»

Conventional near - infrared semiconductor detector systems are limited by low sensitivity and high error rates and can not count numbers of photons.

«Emergency department crowding is clearly linked to worse patient care and worse outcomes, including higher mortality rates, higher rates of complications, and errors,» said Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation, professor of emergency medicine and health policy at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

The device has made it possible for researchers to study bacteria and viruses in the field, but its high error - rate and large sequencing gaps have, until now, limited its use on human cells with their billions of nucleotides.

If we incorporate C / EBPα, the same process takes only a few days, has a much higher success rate and less possibility of errors,» states the young scientist.

These rates, however, are still significantly higher than error rates when comparing two photos of entirely different people.

Moreover, we demonstrated that although the Oxford Nanopore technology is a relatively new sequencing technology, currently with a high error rate, it is already useful in the generation of high - quality genome assemblies.

We disregarded CGG10023, due to insufficient genome coverage and high error rate, and Twilight, which represents the Thoroughbred horse used for generating the EquCab2.0 assembly and is therefore expected to show a strong deficit of derived alleles.

As these rates are generally thought to be higher than the error rate of Complete Genomics sequence data, a number of discrepancies are to be expected.

When looking at these data, please keep in mind that most estimates of the error rate in dbSNP are relatively high, as are most estimates of the error rate in publicly available dbSNP genotypes of reference samples.

However, when we extracted gene expression levels from the brain transcriptome data following the methodology in Carneiro et al. [29], we found that levels of nucleotide diversity and the proportion of low frequency variants between lowly (bottom 5 %) and highly (top 5 %) expressed genes in our dataset (Table S7) were not significantly different in most comparisons (with the exception of π in O. c. cuniculus) nor did they consistently differ in the expected direction when assuming higher error rates in lowly expressed genes.

This viral response reflects a combination of a high rate of replication together with an error - prone RNA - dependent RNA polymerase, providing for the selection and proliferation of the viruses with the highest fitness.

** Typically developing participants demonstrated significantly higher correct rate of Social emotion condition compared with individuals with ASD (P = 0.009); bar = standard error.

It is not unreasonable to believe that error rates are higher in education because of the lack of reliable heuristics and a relatively thin research base.

If a placement tool isn't accurate or reliable, it can result in high error rates — truly prepared students being assigned to remediation, or truly unprepared students being assigned to college - level courses — which could undermine the effectiveness of the remedial «treatment.»

Mathematica, a research group that published a 2010 study warning about the use of value - added modeling in high - stakes decisions because of high error rates, was paid more than $ 500,000 to design the value - added model for the Washington, D.C. public schools, according to a DCPS spokesman.

The error associated with using initial performance to predict future performance appears to be quite high: only 32 percent of teachers classified as low - performing in math are in the lowest performance quintile in future years, meaning that the false negative rate is 68 percent.

In Reign of Error, Ravitch makes clear that, contrary to the statements being made about disastrous public school test scores and graduation rates, these figures are the highest they've ever been in history — and that dropout rates are at their lowest, this according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a no - stakes test for children of all races.

Gates also broke from some of his allies in the reform movement, like New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, to decry the public release of teachers» value - added ratings, which are based on their students» standardized test scores and have high error rates.

Another confusing element of KIPP's performance metrics was highlighted in a letter — issued March 16 during both the charter expansion and the disparate suspension controversies — which said KIPP had made a clerical error and did not have the nation's third - highest suspension rate (71 percent) for black charter school students in 2011 - 2012.

Lower processing rates often result from low levels of automation, high pay check error rates or high rates of manually processed off - cycle pay checks.

[Westbrook High School Principal] Winch said the error was particularly frustrating because state records now say that Westbrook High School's participation rate was a zero, when, she said, the school had 99.9 percent of the students take the test, albeit the wrong test.

On this note, and «[i] n sum, recent research on value added tells us that, by using data from student perceptions, classroom observations, and test score growth, we can obtain credible evidence [albeit weakly related evidence, referring to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's MET studies] of the relative effectiveness of a set of teachers who teach similar kids [emphasis added] under similar conditions [emphasis added]... [Although] if a district administrator uses data like that collected in MET, we can anticipate that an attempt to classify teachers for personnel decisions will be characterized by intolerably high error rates [emphasis added].

Critics particularly point to the high margin of error with many value - added ratings, noting that they tend to bounce around for a given teacher from year to year and class to class.

On the other hand, for the iPad mini 3, the much smaller 62 percent Color Gamut resulted in a much higher error of 6.8 JNCD going up as high as 22.6 JNCD, which resulted in a Good to Poor Absolute Color Accuracy rating.

To have a chance to be featured at Buck Books, your book must be priced at 99 cents or less during your promotion, its listing on Kindle must show that it is at least 60 pages in length, you must have at least 10 reviews with an average rating of 3.8 stars or higher, your book description must be well - written and free of any major spelling or grammatical errors, and your book cover must be designed by a non-Fiverr professional designer or book cover design service.

Among all existing Tablets of any size, the iPad mini 4 takes first place and breaks performance records in many of the most important test categories including: lowest screen Reflectance (2.0 percent), highest contrast rating in high ambient light (225), a near perfect log - straight intensity scale and gamma of 2.22, and the highest absolute color accuracy (average / maximum color errors of 1.9 and 4.2 JNCD — tied for first place with the Microsoft Surface Pro 4).

As the result you get a higher interest rate when you: take a loan, open a new credit card account, lease a car, etc. 29 % of the credit reports in this study contained even more serious errors that could result in the denial of credit.

Take advantage of the high rate of analyst forecast error by simply investing in out - of - favor stocks.

46 % of credit reports contain errors serious enough to cause a borrower to recieve a higher interest rate and fees when borrowing.

Errors on your credit report can cost you hundreds of dollars if you have to pay a higher interest rate as a result [did I say hundreds?

In 2013 it was reported that 5 % of consumers in the U.S. had an error on a credit report that led to them paying a higher interest rate on a loan.

If there are negative errors on your credit reports you run the risk of being declined or being approved but with a high interest rate or needing a co-signer.

Error rates of 12 % to 37 % are simply too high to allow use of credit reports as a screening tool.

There are a multitude of other problems with this practice, problems like the high error rate that is commonly known to exist among credit reporting agencies; the reality that certain types of employment, jobs that are dominated by people of color specifically, actually have a negative effect on one's credit history.

No one ever has been able to explain it well to me, and I therefore think most of these judgements are fraught with biases of all sorts, high error rates, and general silliness.

Snap tests have high rates of error, especially in regard to false positives, and are not intended for final diagnoses (see The Merck Veterinary Manual (2012)-RRB-.

With such high frame - rates and razor thin margins for error, the slop of an analog stick often adds insult to injury.

«These new results indicate that relative sea levels in New Zealand have been rising at an average rate of 1.6 mm / yr over the last 100 years — a figure that is not only within the error bounds of the original determination, but when corrected for glacial - isostatic effects has a high level of coherency with other regional and global sea level rise determinations.