Sentences with phrase «know conventional wisdom»

This is probably worth a whole blog topic in and of itself — I know the conventional wisdom is that Chase UR points are «worth» 1.7 - 2 cents / point and in that case I made a «bad» redemption.

You probably know the conventional wisdom on emergency savings: 3 - 6 months of income.

I know conventional wisdom says that we must keep our children away from too much television and computer time, but I beg to differ.

Not exact matches

Conventional wisdom, at least among young or aspiring entrepreneurs, is that there is some magic bullet or some way to hack your way to success, and all you have to do is find it... and I know Dave feels the way to be successful is to work hard and kick ass and be so good no one can ignore you.

Maybe that was conventional wisdom back in the 1950s, but in these enlightened times, we should know better, right?

Buffett is known to buck conventional wisdom as Berkshire's latest $ 37.2 billion acquisition of Precision Castparts, announced on Monday, demonstrates.

Einstein articulated at length how not belonging made him much less likely to bow to conventional wisdom and obey the norms of the academic fields, Schilling notes, even though he knew that would cause a lot of ire.

The conventional wisdom is to withdraw 4 % of the value of your retirement portfolio every year, no matter the market situation.

Challenging conventional wisdom and rational thought, non conformism, humility, independent thinking, intuition above induction, adopting a multi-disciplinary mindset, learning from mistakes and indeed, happily abandoning the ideas he knew were wrong; creativity and imagination and of course, curiosity.

Chinese exporters are no doubt relieved, but the question now is: What does that do to investment flows that had been for a long time bet on the conventional wisdom that the yuan would continue to rise?

I accept the conventional wisdom bull story in Gold — even though I know that conventional wisdom is usually wrong.

A variation on the conventional wisdom appeals to the anxieties of students about their career prospects: «You need to get to know the people who will be your colleagues in the ministry for the rest of your life.»

We know he told the king that God used one of His own to do more and better things than circumstances seemed to allow or conventional wisdom dictated as possible.

Investing in major capital projects perhaps goes against the conventional wisdom in a recession, but CDG knew that in order to improve the business, the basic infrastructure had to be in place.

If we learned anything from 2016, it's that conventional wisdom no longer exists.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

It's conventional wisdom that babies with older siblings learn to walk faster, but I don't know if this is true.

«While we don't know why women have faster oxygen uptake, this study shakes up conventional wisdom,» said Beltrame.

I know it goes against the conventional wisdom of the day regarding breastfeeding.

Long told me it was his hope that the Conservatives and Republicans would be unified — particularly given the conventional wisdom that Row D is crucial to any statewide GOP candidate (I know this theory has its detractors).

«This poll shows that contrary to conventional wisdom, voters know that spending 27 years in the backslapping, dysfunctional donor - fueled Albany machine does not prepare you to be the fighter we need in Congress,» she said.

As a minority leader in the highly partisan rough and tumble state legislature (1987 - 2002), Faso wasn't necessarily known for reaching across the aisle, but he read the bills and questioned conventional wisdom.

Seeber is known for challenging conventional wisdom on the board and proposing new approaches.

For a presidential cycle known for upending conventional political wisdom, one thing certainly hasn't changed: It's hard to vote in the Senate if you're campaigning across the country.

We are no longer in the two - party battle by which conventional wisdom has long — and, it has to be said, accurately — judged the political terrain.

Conventional wisdom has long held that thalidomide's signature defect — a shortened, seal - like «flapper» arm, known as phocomelia — affects both sides of the body.

Such faithful neurons conflict with the conventional wisdom — a single cell is not supposed to know so much.

The conventional wisdom has been «no» — that they care more about economic growth than climate change.

A group of researchers says that the closest known evolutionary cousin of whales, dolphins and porpoises is not the hippopotamus, as conventional wisdom has it, but an extinct deer - like animal roughly the size of a fox or raccoon.

You know, he — he challenged the original conventional wisdom and said, «Look, quit eating carbohydrate and he — what he was onto is he was on — I think he was on to two very important things.

its like the body knows and tries so hard to get us to fast when we have advanced cancer but following conventional wisdom we keep eating any and every thing we can choke down thinking we need the calories.

I'm sure you know as well as me that there are that many choices of «how to meet someone» these days that conventional wisdom seems to suggest that the vast majority of the population just don't know where to begin.

But this release, a modestly budgeted indie (Paramount acquired it after it was shot) feels slightly different: Streep, at 67, is no longer an outlier defying all conventional wisdom about the box - office viability of an actress north of 50; she's part of a trend.

Moreover, reading a classic on your own time can be a bigger intellectual adventure than reading it for college credit, when you know you'll be graded on having learned the book's standard interpretation and the professor might be pouring that conventional wisdom into your head before you've even finished the text.

The saddest sight in the American educational tableau is educators who have stopped learning, who are no longer finding out — in ways that excite young people, or challenge conventional wisdom.

The conventional wisdom that women need a college degree more than men was true at one time, but is no longer.

The 2016 election was a few short months away, and conventional wisdom had been turned on its head by the man we now know as the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump.

As we predicted, Emily Oster's claims in her forthcoming book, Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong — and What You Really Need to Know (Penguin Press, 8/20; Blackstone Audio) is drawing controversy.

Her book, Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong — and What You Really Need to Know (Penguin Press; Blackstone Audio) will be released on August 20.

I don't know where this executive found a compound interest calculator, but these statistics merely confirms conventional wisdom.

If you've been reading this blog much, you know I'm skeptical of the conventional wisdom that a secure retirement requires investing the lion's share of one's net worth in stocks.

An equity bias is deemed conventional wisdom in its ability to generate a reliable source of excess return, but a value bias no longer is.

Conventional wisdom preaches that you can't know what you don't track.

However — and if you read here much, you know there's always a however in life — this decision isn't as cut - and - dried as conventional wisdom leads us to believe.

Conventional wisdom suggests paying 20 % of a home's purchase price in cash upfront — known as the down payment.

Everyone knows I relish being combative, but here's a case where I actually agree with the Conventional Wisdom.

A common bit of conventional wisdom is to never close a no - annual - fee credit card.

From the desk of the Devil's Advocate... Everyone knows I relish being combative, but here's a case where I actually agree with the Conventional Wisdom.

We know the conventional market wisdom.

This track stands in contrast to current conventional wisdom which, oddly, is grounded upon policies that have not worked in the past and which we know never to have been politically feasible except through the application of unacceptable political forces.