Sentences with phrase «how meaningless»

For those having difficulty understanding how meaningless correlations can arise in real data, here is a question from one of my Intro Stats exams:

Schmidt included how meaningless it was in his briefing notes, which on page 5 said they were only 38 percent sure, or 62 percent unsure, of the claim (Figure 2).

An illustration of how meaningless the record and the results are is given by the fact that in many years the difference in global annual average temperature is at least half the 0.7 °C figure.

To show how meaningless this feedback number is, consider the situation where the net feedback is zero.

Surely the fact that CO2 sublimes at a higher temperature than minus 80 °C demonstrates how meaningless such statements are.

We engineering folk make such guesses all the time but typically couch them in language appropriate for the listener to understand how meaningless the guesses really are.

Few understood how meaningless a measure it was.

Since you don't seem to know how meaningless «decadal trends» are, you use the only data set that gives you what you want and ignore the others, and you act as though there's no uncertainty in your «trend» estimate, your level of certainty amounts to nothing more than hubris.

On June 22, Commander Kelly, posting an image of a meandering river, said, «[It's] interesting how meaningless squiggles are until they stand for something else.»

#EarthArt Interesting how meaningless squiggles are until they stand for something else.

The first graph shows how meaningless this claim is.

Don't we all wish we had an advantage over the hundreds of others in line, no matter how meaningless?

Even those awards that you'd expect to have an experienced and educated voter pool often turn out some pretty ridiculous results that prove just how meaningless the results are... but I've always held the Freddies (the annual loyalty program awards) to a...

I'm now starting to understand how meaningless these numbers are.

This, again, is an example of how meaningless badges can drive users away.

Brett eventually develops a conscience about what's happening, now that his brother is involved, but he's still hesitant to offer any help beyond advice about how meaningless frat life is.

As remarkable, unusual, and beneficial as Annie Hall's Oscar wins were, they supposedly didn't mean much to Allen, who in the same year was quoted as saying «I have no regard for that kind of ceremony... you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.»

He searches everywhere for it and along the way discovers just how meaningless his life and life's work seem to himself and others.

While she continues to use my closet as her own personal cost - free department store, I've come to realize how meaningless a few pieces of clothing are in the bigger picture.

I have talked a lot about how meaningless the weight on the scale number is in regards to actual body composition, but I also want to address the «extreme» mindset from another angle.

I also did not realize how meaningless the room / environment became once real labor pain set in, or that having a midiwfe is not a guarantee for being treated with compassion or for feeling / being in control — individually, socially or medically.

You can tweak your recipe forever looking for a better texture, but the day you get a professional - grade waffle iron you will realize just how meaningless it all was.

Do they want to get together with other atheists and discuss how meaningless life is and there is no higher meaning to our existence?

It connotes the passage of time; the fleeting moments that make up our memories at the end of our lives; but most importantly, it conveys just how meaningless any gifts would be compared to the gift the Polziecs gave the Gerstens.

Not exact matches

After using the 5S for the past week, I'm not only pleasantly surprised by what I thought would be a meaningless feature, I'm now having trouble imagining how I might get by without it.

How often you tweet, when you tweet, engaging with influential people... all those strategies are meaningless unless you create great content that other people want to share.

How any of the rest of us measure it at this point in time really is meaningless because we're not driving the markets in that regard.

All your pontification and posturing is meaningless, because it takes very little effort to point out exactly how clueless you really are.

Written words, without seeing my eyes, or being in my physical presence, must express some semblance of feelings behind it, otherwise the words, no matter how technically correct, are meaningless.

What the bible says about how the Earth was created is meaningless unless you can prove it is true without using the bible.

The term is meaningless to me (thus I couldn't have any hate towards «it» either), but I do understand how meaningful the term is to others.

Atheist create meaningless chatter about how to post on a forum.

What I have shown is that how the relative nature of God is presented in neoclassical theism may have to change, not that there is no God, nor that all conceptions of God are impossible or meaningless.

as an actual scientist, it's more important to ask «how things work» than to ask empty meaningless questions like «why are we here» or «what happens when we die».

And that is much more useful than David simply providing a new definition for two reasons: he's seeking not necessarily to redefine, but to challenge already existing inconsistencies between our use of the words and how people actually function, AND because such terms are given their meaning collectively so redefining it alone would be meaningless because it wouldn't draw on people's real experience with their beliefs and views of the labels.

is entirely meaningless — for I have no idea how you define those words.

If we can't be civil on here, a little meaningless comment page on a «news» website, how can we hope to be civil in day - to - day affairs?

There is no context to how that money breaks down so it is kind of meaningless unless your position is churches shouldn't spend any money on meeting places.

So my question is this: How does that logic not make our understandings of right and wrong completely arbitrary and meaningless?

How tragic it would be to live a whole life focusing on mundane, meaningless things, and look back at the end of life and realize you've lived a wasted it.

How can one understand the concept of justice in evaluating the dignity of the human being without falling into the trap of meaningless rhetoric and empty sloganeering?

I still fail to see how you arrive that everything is meaningless just because the meaning is diminshed or non existant in the future?

How does the creationism vs evolution debate actually impact anyone's life except for more meaningless contention between the pro-God and and anti-God crowds?

All of your explanations of how you believe Jesus operates is meaningless to the person (me) who spent year after agonizing year praying and waiting for Jesus to help.

I'd like to learn how to motivate church people; how to stop them from substituting meaningless religious observance for vital worship; how to get them to act as Christians in the world.

Fact: you don't understand how carbon dating works «Furthermore you can claim 4.5 billion all day long but SCIENCE states that is a meaningless number unless you state what that number is in reference to» WRONG.

How about tangeable words rather than nice sounding but meaningless phrases.

as the bible is a complete work of fiction, and is totally meaningless in how we live our lives, there is no relevance to be placed on one word of that book.

Ah, how marvelously large that is — large enough to be either overwhelming or totally meaningless, for in saying so much, what can it mean?

Funny how for Arsenal was «just meaningless friendlies» and now for manu is «they will be fightimg for the title.