Sentences with phrase «inflated numbers»

So their inflated award redemptions are offset by inflated number of miles they offer.

By going contrarian, we are able to capitalize on public bias and take advantage of artificially inflated numbers.

They were penny stocks, inflated numbers on a ledger mailed to my house monthly.

Is the value of your home climbing, or their attempt to win your business with inflated numbers?

Pittsburgh had 12 shots and four goals on Rinne, extremely inflating his numbers because of how low the shot total was.

Some internet dating sites don't remove expired profiles, and thereby falsely inflating the number of potential dates on their service.

But our understanding of important social issues — and governments» response to them — is not improved by inflated numbers or trumped - up crises.

Finding inflated numbers in fringe benefits, overtime, the Safety Net program and risk retention, I knew we could cut spending, fund services and not raise taxes.

Lepczyk et al. then inflate these numbers through both careless (e.g., using averages to describe skewed data) and deliberate (e.g., assuming all non-respondents owned cats — perhaps 50 % more than respondents did) means.

If the author of Chronicles was all about inflating the numbers, he certainly didn't do it that often, nor did he do it very consistently.

the xbox's price cut is good for MS in the sense that it will inflate the numbers as to create the illusion (for lack of a better word) of demand.

A lot of sites have fake sex personals profiles and fake members set to inflate their numbers member.

Their presence on the site inflates the number of messages sent.

While recent gains in the national graduation rates are real, there are some examples of states and districts inflating their numbers, and the GradNation campaign has highlighted those states and districts in previous updates to the nation.

Of course, as real estate agents, their closing costs are always on the low side so it does inflate their numbers a bit.

Facebook also admitted recently that it misstated a key video metric for more than two years, artificially inflating the numbers around video views, just one of a number of similar admissions about its ability to measure content.

For this reason, the page view metric generally inflates numbers.)

Moreover, the WJC has vastly inflated the number of surviving Jewish slave laborers, to the extent that, as Finkelstein wryly points out, if accurate, the number of Holocaust victims must be so much lower than the standard number that the Jewish bodies pressing these claims might well be charged with «Holocaust denial.»

Adam, to suggest your SUPER inflated numbers (most were killed due to conditionso f war, including by their own governments failure to to give two squirts of piss about them and using then as human shields) somehow makes my country's actions in the war on terror equivalent to terrorism itself is beyond offensive to me.

, you'd expect him to always inflate the numbers.

Sportsbooks shade their opening lines to capitalize on public perception, but one - sided public betting will only continue to inflate the number if there's considerably more money from casual bettors than sharp bettors.

It's a joke because the abundance of horrible players inflates the numbers of any player who's any good at all.

That's why the sharps almost always oppose, betting into what are almost certainly inflated numbers.

Recent news reports — an article in The New York Times on construction practices that make the city's subway track the most expensive in the world and another in The Daily News that the authority inflated the number of power issues in the subway to shift blame to the ConEd power utility — have stoked a deep skepticism about the agency among the public and the people who represent them.

One, some manufacturers will choose to include knife covers in this count, which will effectively inflate the number of pieces.

E.U. governments asked companies to provide their own, unverified historical emissions data, and many inflated their numbers so as to claim more free allowances from government.

Critics allege that the criteria used to define AAMI are not only arbitrary but grossly inflate the number of «sufferers».

Finally, the use of free and reduced - price lunch as a proxy for economic status is potentially distorted because there is administrative pressure to maximize program eligibility, which could inaccurately inflate the number of families characterized as living in «poverty.»

Interestingly (though not surprisingly), 17.5 percent of men who lied inflated their number, while 18.6 percent of women who lied decreased their number.

Still, NCLB gave states significant leeway in calculating graduate rates, and for years, the states used widely differing approaches, often with an eye towards inflating their numbers.

In order to discourage districts from inflating the numbers of students with disabilities in order to get more funding, the funding formula uses overall student enrollment in districts to determine how much each will get.

As to your point about using inflated numbers an a resume, I agree with you; not very commendable.

(Lenders that were trying to inflate their numbers put Alt - A mortgages to good use.)

(No doubt Fenwick is, as is common practice at ABC, also inflating the number of outdoor cats for his calculations.)

Crippled, blind, or chronically sick dogs are disposed of at shelters, creating inflated numbers and higher budgets.

But I'm involved in the personal finance blogosphere for some freelance stuff I do, and they are having a lot of issues right now because they do a similar list like this based on Alexa, but they've found that almost nobody but bloggers use the toolbar, so it artificially inflates the numbers when the same bloggers visit each others» sites.

Just as Qatar Airways expands its offering to Australia, American Airlines inflates the number of miles you need to get from Europe to Australia with any degree of comfort.

There being five episodes inflates the number of actual people playing somewhat, and there being varying platforms and prices means calculating a sum of money earned is hard.

He just inflates the number of IPCC scientists to 3000 at his November 5, 2014 Facebook post.

It's possible that earn - outs and employment contracts could inflate that number significantly — a couple people I talked to think it could go as high as $ 60 million.

While I didn't include benchmark scores for my OnePlus 5 review due to some shady practices regarding inflated numbers, I ran them for the 5T, and the results were as expected: PC Mark's Work 2.0 test regularly returned scores around 7,000, slightly lower than the Pixel 2 XL's but still very impressive.

«Nintendo's stock price shooting up [following the launch] was in part an overdue market correction, and the Pokémon Go craze merely inflated the numbers.»

Nike FuelBand SE inflated the number of steps taken too, but not as drastically as any Fitbit.

Google will happily tell you it can provide «100 million» more answers than it could a year ago, but that feels like an awfully inflated number to me.

According to Accu - Screen Inc., a Tampa, Fla., company that specializes in employment background screening of job applicants, the most common resume lies are exaggerations and inflated numbers including dates of employment, salary and fictitious job titles.

However, truthful results are what you should put on your resume without inflating the numbers.