Sentences with phrase «how wrong assumptions»

I thought about just doing this post as a way to laugh at how silly conservative outrage over another bit of pop culture they don't like is, especially this guy's movie review, but I just can't get over how wrong his assumptions are about what most people that call themselves environmentalists really believe and want for themselves and the environment.

Because of that, I never gave the first Attack on Titan game the time of day, but after playing it's sequel, I realize just how wrong my assumptions about that game and Omega Force's talents were.

Introduction; Changing Estimates of the Age of the Earth; Chronology of Writings; History of Radiometric Dating; References; Acknowledgements Once you understand the basic science of radiometric dating, you can see how wrong assumptions lead to incorrect dates.

Once you understand the basic science of radiometric dating, you can see how wrong assumptions lead to incorrect dates.

But a year that brought economic panic and the worst downturn since the Great Depression showed how wrong that assumption can be.

I was pleasantly surprised at how wrong my assumption was.

The recent story of a United Airlines pilot posing as a cardiologist shows just how wrong an assumption this can be.

Not exact matches

When assumptions about how a product should be developed prove to be invalid, openness helps team members admit to stakeholders they were wrong, to ask for help and change direction to improve and create a better product.

In the preface to Several Short Sentences About Writing, he argues that «most of the received wisdom about how writing works is not only wrong but harmful,» and then devotes the rest of the book to smashing assumptions and correcting misconceptions about the craft.

Have you ever made assumptions about how someone arrived at their beliefs only to be proven wrong?

Examples of this would be our presupposition that it is better to do right than to do wrong, or a general assumption on how to distinguish one from the other.

The notion that there is something wrong with the baby being jaundiced comes from the assumption that the formula feeding baby is the standard by which we should determine how the breastfed baby should be.

But the fuss over her comment and its underlying assumption — that there must be something wrong with him because, busy or not, he «should» have a girlfriend — got me thinking about the work of Bella DePaulo, author of numerous books on the single life, including Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After.

But with the increasing body of research, we're starting to see how wrong these historical assumptions were.

This is an obviously wrong, but nevertheless useful, assumption of how text is generated.

«It's most useful in our quest to find out where we go wrong with our measurements, our assumptions, or our prejudgements about how life works.»

Now a study reports that old assumptions of how permafrost carbon breaks down in Arctic lakes and rivers may be wrong.

Whenever my assumptions are proven wrong it makes me wonder how many of my other assumptions are incorrect.

Wrong assumption once again which is how this all started.

Things look very different if we start from the opposite assumption: Teachers want to do their best for children and are willing to work as hard as it takes, but they may not know how to improve or what's wrong with the way they've always taught.

Then they would learn just how wrong they had been in that assumption.

You can play around with it to see which is better, and also how much you'd be off by in different scenarios if your assumptions are wrong.

The benefit to the investor of taking on less risk can show up in these analyses only through a showing that he obtains higher returns (since the assumption that Passives will always hold their stocks rules out the possibility that it could how up through sales of stocks at the wrong time).

It is impossible to know if my assumptions are true, but they are consistent with how the market behaves; if they prove wrong, change those assumptions.

While there are undoubtedly individual cases where this has been the case (this protein folding code for instance), the vast majority of papers that turn out to be wrong, or non-robust are because of incorrect basic assumptions, overestimates of the power of a test, some wishful thinking, or a failure to take account of other important processes (It might be a good idea for someone to tally this in a quantitative way — any ideas for how that might be done?).

«We did know that there were fewer measurements during the war than before and thereafter, but we simply made wrong assumptions on how and by whom the measurements were taken,» he says.

The assumption would be that they were just looking for any justification, no matter how baseless, for their politically motivated insistence that 97 percent of scientists are wrong about climate change.

The problem is that nobody actually knows which assumption is wrong and by how much.

I think all models fall down because the many of the initial assumptions are wrong and there is poor quantitative understanding of how each non-linear process works.

Worse still, we now have clear evidence that the assumptions in our models are wrong (for example how fast Greenland will melt) and we are seeing things happen much faster than we expected.

And I realized how wrong I was about all these assumptions!

How many of your assumptions about future growth might be wrong?

Having car insurance is a no - brainer for drivers, so much so that we may easily and automatically make wrong assumptions about how an auto policy works.

Wrong valuation assumptions can lead to bad decisions about whether to sell, when to sell and how to price a property.

Were issues caused by not knowing what to ask, by assumptions on how things would be built, by a contractor saying they'd do something and then flat out not doing it, should things like «zero entry» have been written instead of just stated, is it communication between the general contractor and the trades, or a lack of general contractor, or just having the flat out wrong guy?