This story going global is a great example of how little facts matter and
how much context matters when looking at news.
Furthermore, I researched
how much context could be gleaned from emails in general and found that using complete email records to generate a history of events was all but guaranteed to produce an incomplete history and erroneous conclusions.
It's a blog comment —
how much context do you need?
«S&R contacted Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit to get his views on
how much context the published emails contained and what could be concluded from them.
This is plenty of time to catch a memorable moment, but it does restrict
how much context can be included.
«If we're not thinking about
how much context matters, and how to change context, we're losing most of the leverage that we have to actually get people to behave differently.»
And the definitions can get a whole lot more specific depending on
how much context the situation requires.
A series of different life experiences lead me to the realize
how much context matters.
Not exact matches
I think this also probably applies to a
much wider
context than startups: I think your success might be determined by
how willing you are to be inconsistent.
«We did this study because understanding
how much radiation comes off of common household items helps place radiation readings in
context - it puts things in perspective,» Hayes said.
As more and more marketers buy into «the age of
context,» realizing the importance of
context and
how it can strengthen the entire marketing funnel, marketers will also recognize the need to create a
much more personalized, dynamic experience for their readers.
The calculation that matters, then, is not
how much Google or Facebook are hurt in isolation, but
how much they are hurt relatively to their competitors, and the obvious answer is «a lot less», which, in the
context of that secular increase, means growth.
Although one could imagine all sorts of radical Blue Sky tax reforms — or
much less radical ideas like a carbon tax or a value added tax — in the
context of the current debate about
how to make some alterations to the current tax system, I would suggest the following five elements in the spirit of 1986:
Lonnie is a particular person from a particular
context — I wonder
how much of an option he would have had in terms of forming a gay - identity.
As is often the case when we have entered
contexts foreign to us in the posture of humility and learning, we were moved not only by
how much we share in common with «the other,» but
how much we have to learn from them:
Nevertheless, if some Christian scholars describe Christ as too
much the enlightenment liberal or modern revolutionary to possibly have lived in the first century, Paula Fredriksen may go too far in emphasizing
how easy it is to explain Jesus» message in its historical
context and
how comprehensible that message was to his Jewish listeners.
Apart from my own contribution, and a few others, the emphasis here was, very
much on the form of the art,
how it was produced, who the artists were and their social
context, rather than its message.
Americans, for their part, should appreciate
how much the Jewish and Christian traditions have provided the vision and
context for creating and maintaining a society of ordered liberty.
Interpretations can be assessed based on
how much of the story and of the author's
context that interpretation has a coherent relationship to.
We Americans, religious and secular both, have powerful fundamental views about religion that put radical Islam in a certain
context, one that prevents us from understanding
how unlike other American religious expressions it is — and
how much of a threat it is to the civil order.
We must recognize that in this
context «adaptation» is strictly defined in terms of survival values and that, generally speaking, it is the simpler forms of organization that possess the greatest staying power: living systems, no matter
how fantastically intricate - and well organized they might be, have a
much shorter span of existence than, say, a rock crystal, or a single stable atom.34
I quickly realized
how little I had to give and
how much I had to learn as a white Westerner listening to tales of faith in a Pacific / Asian
context.
All you are doing Spoc aka Bob is showing
how much you don't know about reading comprehension 101 because when the scriptures are put into historical
context, nowhere does it condemn the saved loving long term relationship of a gay couple as we know and understand it today.
That's very nice of you to miss me and really find your post some
how fair and very understanding to the situation and the differences of Muslims from each nation... and
how much the Islamic Clerics have driven them away from the original
context of the Holy Quran as a peaceful religion with their fatwas..
Christianity Today even dealt with the issue in their January 2013 cover story: «
How Much Muslim
Context is Too
Much for the Gospel?»
Once we set Jesus in the
context of a larger scriptural story, however, and come to grips with his sense of what exactly the new the new covenant would mean and
how it would both fulfill and transform the old one... we discover a
much richer, and more narratival, sense of «fulfillment,» which generates that subtle and powerful view of scripture we find in the early church.»
We have a
much greater understanding of addiction today than we did back then but as you've pointed out in numerous postings, the church really doesn't know
how to cope when addictive cycles in Christian
contexts.
Greg Jones» first section, «Learning to Describe Actions, Persons, and the World: Social
Contexts and Moral Judgments,» helps us understand what (and
how very
much) is at stake in this and other disputes over descriptive labels.
No matter
how much we believe we have left these things behind, they are part of the inevitable
context of our preaching.
The presence of phytic acid in so many enjoyable foods we regularly consume makes it imperative that we know
how to prepare these foods to neutralize phytic acid content as
much as possible, and also to consume them in the
context of a diet containing factors that mitigate the harmful effects of phytic acid.
Once again, as I sipped on the young Quintet and Dry Red No 1 and revelled in their sheer beauty, I thought about
how much they cost and what great value they represent in a global
context — not least because of their outstanding ability to age amazingly well in the cellar.
Aldon's blood alcohol level has to be be judged in the
context of
how much alcohol tolerance he's developed.
The
context of those sacks shows you just
how much of an impact he had on the game.
«I am maybe naive enough to believe that with the time going on, with perspective and
context what will stand out is what I have done for my club,» he said, «and not so
much the result of the last game or
how much I will be applauded when I stop one day.»
Think
how much pressure he may have taken off his players by making that statement, which we must consider in
context of what the press has been insinuating all week long, about our efforts this season.
When children are part of that conversation, they now have a reason for getting the
context, to understanding that «I can't throw, I can't lose my iPhone for the third time, because there's literally a limit to
how much my parents will allocate to lost iPhones».
I said that when a husband says the statement (that you misquoted without the
context) to his wife that «it may surprise you
how much easier it is to continue to nurse when someone you love and trust removes that pressure to perform.»
And, when research uses standardized tests to measure homework's impact, she continued, it is difficult to gauge
how much of the overall improvement or decline in test scores is due to student learning in the classroom
context as opposed to student learning from homework.
Placed in the
context of what to do about Libya the difference between Obama and Cameron (and by inference Cameron and Clegg, who also used the phrase) that air power but not ground troops is acceptable and sufficient is a good indicator of
how much muscle the debate surrounding the doctrine will allow to be flexed in this case.
The timing of the ESRC's Festival of Social Sciences could not be more pertinent, and the European Social Survey (ESS) event - «British social attitudes in European comparative
context» — shows just
how much the work of social scientists can offer us all.
To make it work, you have to decide which words to abbreviate and
how, forcing you to judge
how much your readers will extract from
context.
Too
much depends on
how the bill is handled - the extent to which the government is willing to give way or concede - and on the
context in which any votes take place.
«We did this study because understanding
how much radiation comes off of common household items helps place radiation readings in
context — it puts things in perspective,» says Robert Hayes, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University.
How much service you really should be doing «depends on the
context.
RealClimate sought to put the error into
context, linking to several studies that make clear
how much danger the Himalayan glaciers face.
«What this study might add is
context the athlete can relate to, and that is
how much time they may miss from their sport.
The
context of what I wrote is the discussion above, which talks about
how observed temperatures can't yet say
much about the sensitivity, perhaps not yet for many decades.
Today, the web offers many more resources for folks interested in
how to use nutrition to optimize their health than I could have envisioned in 2009, and many fantastic books have been printed, but there is still no other source of information that puts so
much into
context in one continuous narrative.
For further
context, also see my associated blog posts: Stool Size & Breast Cancer Risk, Vitamin B12:
how much,
how often?
Also, check out my associated blog posts for more
context: Go Nuts for Breast Cancer Prevention, and Breast Cancer & Alcohol:
How Much Is Safe?