Sentences with phrase «laymen think»

«A lot of laymen think it's safe for a helicopter to hover at low altitudes,» he said.

The laymen's discussion is taped in order that the conferees may listen to it and hear what the laymen think in comparison with their own reactions.

The vast majority of humanity is NEVER going to understand quantum mechanics, but my favorite is when the layman thinks they understand such concepts as «nothing» and «infinity».

Surely there can be no doubt at least that the average layman thinks that this is what is intended; and he assumes that when the clergy speak of miracle, this is precisely what they mean.

What does the layman think when they hear the term «video game»?

To my layman thoughts this would seem to suggest that increased salinity could be playing a part in the total contribution as regards polar ice melt.

So to your layman thought experiment.

Not exact matches

While it makes good sense for professionals to become ninjas in their respective discipline, for the laymen investor, this dogmatic thinking can be very dangerous.

In an article on Think Progress, Zach Beauchamp cites a study by political scientists Thomas Carsey and Geoffrey Layman which shows that over time, people often change their abortion attitudes to match the political party they generally support.

The most complete statement of that position was the thought - provoking and massive report, Re-thinking Missions: A Layman's Inquiry after One Hundred Years, published in 1932 by a Commission of Appraisal representing seven American Protestant denominations.

As a Presbyterian layman I improvised what I thought was the Catholic church's rite for the dying.

This conflict has emerged between the liberal and militant activist pastors and denominational leaders, on the one hand, and a large body of more conservative laymen, on the other hand, who think the church should stick to spiritual matters and stop meddling in politics and «social» issues.

Perhaps laymen presume that scientists have the arrogance to think they know all the answers, as if they were priests of some foreign and sinister religion.

Far too often, professionals and laymen a like have been deluded into thinking there is one and only one way to get and stay clean / sober - «find God».

And unless a great care is taken, this will create confusion and bring discouragement and heaviness of heart... The «layman» need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister.

The monk was a successor of the ante-Nicene confessor with his power to forgive.52 It is one of the anomalies of the evolution of the monastic ideal that they who withdrew to the wilderness, for the most part dispensing with the ministries of the organized parishes and thinking of themselves as «laymen,» were presently to become the tutors and models of the «secular clergy.»

I think that both Layman and Huerter are better than Jackson.

If I remember correctly, the thought around here at the time was that the scholarship came down to whoever committed first between him and Layman.

I do think there is a slightly higher risk of suffocation (but probably not SIDS), as shown in the data, even when everything is done «right» (despite the fact that we don't have good data to show this and this is completely my non-medical, non-researcher, layman supposition), but there are risks to being a sleepless zombie for five months too!

Arguments were duly put and the judges are now «reserving judgment» — in layman's terms, going away to think about it.

Robin Johnson said it was a «matter of regret» when public office holders comment on ongoing court proceedings, but I thought I'd be helpful and translate this into layman's speak.

In layman's terms, think of a building under construction.

I think this may one of the most thorough discussions of this topic for the the layman / laywoman.

I just perused Rand Quinn and Amanda Jones - Layman's thoughtful and pretty generous take on Letters to a Young Education Reformer, and it got me thinking about the tangled relationship of passion and professionalism when it comes to school reform.

And I think the V - 6 has enough power to convince the layman that it's the V - 8 he thinks he wants in his Charger.»

I think that given two unacceptable choices, they nullified the cardmember requirement that you referred to (layman's opinion).

Have you ever thought of doing a seminar for the layman?

In laymen terms if you think of «normal» as a well risen even sponge cake, with the air bubbles one below the other making a free drainage area.

Yeah, I know it came from «Direct - X Box», but I don't think that means jack to the layman, or even a lot of gamers.

«The important mission of the artist is to portray scenes which the layman neglects to see in nature; to show beauties which the public never think of beholding; and to imbue his paintings with a thought that is not commonplace.

The viewers will be able to find out that the world of figurative painting is so much more than what a layman may think it is, and that the ideas and techniques are plentiful.

This complexity also gives everybody a change to express there opinions, what they think is not working and all these different opinions make it extremely hard for the layman to understand what is going on.

I simply think it's important to communicate the accurate science in a way that is unlikely to be misinterpreted by laymen.

And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.»

Still, I am compelled, as an educated layman, to share a few thoughts, even if they are «not well formed».

I really thought all 24 comments were excellent.I am not reassurred.I've posted a few times here on the RealClimate comment areas about the threat of methane melting from the ocean floor in the Arctic.I still believe that the potential feedback mechanisms will be worse than described here in the article by Gavin.I am a layman only, Harvard, 1982, Boston College Law School, 1987.

I read through your thoughts and though I am not an expert being little more then a layman myself, I have some insights that seem different from your developing hypothesis.

Speaking only as an interested layman, I do not think your claim obtains.

And he lets you, the layman, and his other non-expert readers to think that his method is correct.

I would think that getting to the bottom of this issue would be the A1 scientific puzzle for anyone trying to understand how climate works, but priorities often appear different to a layman than to a professional.

I think a lot of layman skeptics side with the skeptical scientists due to mistrust of the CAWG ones.

I think that even laymen can be made understand the natural law, according to which both all the CO2 sources and all the CO2 sinks together control the CO2 content in the atmosphere, and that the share of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions in the atmospheric CO2 content depends on how the quantity of anthropogenic CO2 emissions is in the proportion to the total CO2 emissions.

For me as a layman the point is that the flatish average annual surface temperatures mislead the willing - to - be-misled into thinking that no damage is being done between up - ticks in avg.

I think the author might have been trying to make it easy for the laymen to read, but it really just doesn't look that good.

That Dr. Brown has it wrong is readily demonstrated by a thought experiment nearly any layman can perform.

Well Joe, I DO N'T agree that Professor Brown has it wrong; but I DO agree that nearly any layman can perform your thought experiment; that's how they earn the prestigious title of «Layman» rather than «Professor.&layman can perform your thought experiment; that's how they earn the prestigious title of «Layman» rather than «Professor.&Layman» rather than «Professor.»

Established facts about the global environment exist less often in science than laymen usually think.

As a layman there is a lot of «may and likely» in here, would it then be probable that this paper fits into the «What I think is more likely than not [> 50 % probability]» or «we don't really know» category»?

From your presentation I think even a layman like myself can begin to recognize (thought not understand) some of the problems that must be confronted in any such analysis.

I am sure there is plenty of rich material to be discussed in the scientific realm here but I think a layman two cents is worth popping in as a sorbet to clear the pallet for moment here