Sentences with phrase «like as the trait»

Working and performance breeders aren't as concerned about what the ear looks like as the trait is cosmetic.

Not exact matches

As The Verge wrote of the bot's downfall: «It's a joke, obviously, but there are serious questions to answer, like, how are we going to teach AI using public data without incorporating the worst traits of humanity?»

PsyBlog quotes Peter K. Jonason, one of the researchers who documented the correlation, to explain the phenomenon: «Those who scored highly on the Dark Triad traits [narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy] are, like many other predators such as lions and scorpions, creatures of the night.

«Though they have some traits that we can not imitate — like Musk's photographic memory — there are other characteristics we can take advantage of, such as cultivating an ambitious goal, building our self - efficacy and spending time alone to exercise our independent thinking.»

Also examine what you like and dislike about your work life as well as what traits people like and dislike about you.

«He had a little bit of a paunch, he smoked heavily, he drank now and again... he was sort of the opposite of some of the ramrod - like leadership traits [we expect]-- except he was frighteningly competent and he cared deeply,» said Gen. McChrystal, who today advises companies on leadership and management as co-founder of the McChrystal Group.

If they're close, like family members, think about why you admire them and then draw on those traits as a source of inspiration at your job.

In the race to advance data - driven electioneering strategies pioneered by successive Obama campaigns, Cruz has turned to Cambridge Analytica for its unparalleled offering of psychological data based on a treasure trove of Facebook «likes», allowing it to match individuals» traits with existing voter datasets, such as who owned a gun.

SCL claimed to be able to do a new type of political targeting that would be based on modeling individuals» personalities (rather than just demographic traits like age, race, or gender, as is traditional).

That is like saying flipping a coin 5,000 times and getting at least one tails is random, well, technically it is, but it is expected, probable, and almost impossible not to happen, just as it's nearly impossible for beneficial traits not to win out in the long run.

Most personality tests such as the Myers — Briggs Type Indicator seek to identify personality «traits,» like introversion or intuition.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

Yeah, that's like expecting that billions of years of nature selecting among slightly advantageous traits from populations of organisms could lead to life as we know it.

(Also, several studies suggest that personality traits that are often admired in men — like ambition and drive — are perceived as negatives when applied to women.)

Topher shows us how easy it is to slip back into old patterns of illogic, though he will quite likely demonstrate how no longer useful traits get weeded out of the gene pool as those few like him fade into the past.

Call God as you like, prayer is a human trait not a religious trait.

It's the difference between a more well rounded guy who looks like a possible above average pass rusher that can also start off doing well against the run vs a guy who looks like a possible elite pass rusher that has some work to do against the run, but also shows the ability and traits to be good there as well.

The whole performance was spineless.Every Away Game is now like Groundhog Day.Teams know how to set up against us as we are completely one dimensional with no other tactic other than to try and retain possession.Yes Sanchez was guilty of continually giving the ball away but at least he was trying to make things happen.Its the same with Ozilwho would always try to make a pass that is incisive as opposed to our frustrating trait of sideways and backward keepball.

I for one feel his natural and best position will always be at box to box.The fact that he's tactically indisciplined doesn't mean it's not his position.The problem with him is that he intentionally decides to neglect his duties.He plays like a box to box player and since he was young many of us saw him as a CM.If he wasn't playing at No. 10 at Wales people wouldn't have suggested in Arsenal he should be playing there which suggests that the problem is not with the position but the player himself.The guy likes to be everywhere on the pitch and that is clearly a trait of a box to box player.

Don't get me wrong — I like Pod and, at least on his social media postings, he seemed t have a fantastic attitude — but it pains me that in the end he (and the Bendtners and Gervinhos and Arshavins others pointed to) seemed more comfortable carping about why he wasn't playing as a center forward and complaining about his lack of first - team football opportunities than he was trying to develop the traits and on - field work habits Wenger demanded of them.

When one is blessed with athletic abilities and physical traits like Wallace, it comes as no shock that she grew up in a family of athletes.

With his freakish athletic traits and all - around skill set as both a runner and receiver, I'm not sure the NFL has ever seen someone like Saquon Barkley.

The blues game is heavily dependent on the quality midfield and the striker at times gets isolated as well if he does not have the combination of traits like pace and strength.

She will likely begin day dreaming about what he will look like as a baby, and perhaps as a little boy, a kindergartner, or even teenager, fantasizing that he has the ideal traits she chooses.

Like the Max & Ruby dolls, it could be seen as baby - ish but isn't this precisely the trait that all kids lose that parents wish they had back?

Camie shared an example of the Jewish people, in whom traits like high anxiety, overprotectiveness, and extreme frugality are seen as the stereotypical traits of this culture.

In the race to advance data - driven electioneering strategies pioneered by successive Obama campaigns, Cruz has turned to Cambridge Analytica for its unparalleled offering of psychological data based on a treasure trove of Facebook «likes», allowing it to match individuals» traits with existing voter datasets, such as who owned a gun.

The President did not insult Nana as he mischievously posted on his wall and carried by some portals.Nana knows Mahama well even than some who are close to the President, his tolerance level and constant display of good manners these were the traits Nana considered when he once predicted Mahama's leadership although he went on further to question why a perfect human being like Mahama should be in the NDC.

«It didn't necessarily make violins any better, but because everyone perceived Stradivari's violins as superior and worth copying, traits like the shape went along with that.»

«It didn't necessarily make violins any better, but because everyone perceived Stradivari's violins as superior and worth copying, traits like the shape went along with that,» Chitwood says.

But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in southeastern Turkey that hold «great promise,» von Wettberg says, as a source of new genes for traits like drought - resistance, resistance to pod - boring beetles, and heat tolerance.

However, a few distinct strains were associated with beers that have very specific traits, such as the smoky clove - like flavor of German Hefeweizen beer.

For mosquito species, these included general traits like subgenus and geographic distribution as well as traits relevant to the ability of each species to transmit disease, such as proximity to human populations, whether they typically bite humans and how many different viruses they are known to transmit.

The American Psychological Association defines sexual orientation as «an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic and / or sexual attractions to men, women or both sexes,» and as Hamer points out, sexual orientation is far less «ambiguous» than personality traits like «self - esteem» and «warmth» that scientists study without religious and political ramifications.

For years, some paleoanthropologists argued that hominins like the famous 3.1 - million - year - old Lucy weren't graceful on the ground because they retained traits for climbing trees, such as long fingers and toes.

These are in turn influenced by more general traits that players can assign — such as «dishonest», «flirtatious» and even concepts like «love».

«Conversely, a spelling error, like substituting «hite» for «height,» might be attributed to a lack of education or to a cognitive challenge such as dyslexia, traits over which the writer has little control.»

In a 2013 analysis of the myPersonality data published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team led by Kosinski showed that the pattern of people's likes on Facebook is enough to predict their personal traits such as gender, race, political persuasion, and even sexuality.

Buying personality tests is like settling for a set menu; what many managers want is testing a la carte that offers them assessment of traits such as trustworthiness and likelihood of absenteeism.

And when the squirrels got all their nuts from a central location, they spatially chunked them: «So they would actually cache nuts that were the same species in distinct areas from nuts of a different species... so the take home message I think for me is really that just like physical traits have evolved, I believe that cognitive traits have evolved as well.

The traits of human - like intelligence have evolved in other species — the octopus and some birds, for example, both exhibit social playfulness — and this, the book suggests, indicates that intelligence is an inevitable consequence of evolution that would characterise extraterrestrials as well.

They found that the protein seems to help maintain several traits in normal breast cells, including the ability to adhere to other epithelial cells, and the presence of molecules marking the cells as differentiated and not capable of self - renewal like breast stem cells.

The system measures traits like a child's ability to follow an object as it passes in front of the eyes, as well as noting certain mannerisms or postures that are classified as being early signs of a possible ASD.

If you imagine the female egg cell (and later, the fertilized egg) as a spherical planet with its own intrinsic biological geography, then certain characteristics of that cell — the location of protein molecules or RNA messages or biochemical traits like pH or even the internal connective structures called microtubules — will be more prominent in certain regions, like one hemisphere as opposed to the other, or near the surface rather than near the core.

And she says it's important for plant breeders like herself to keep in mind that the traits they select for in plants — such as heat in peppers — might have disadvantages under certain conditions.

Geneticists classify traits like tooth size and shape as «complex» because they are affected by DNA variations within many genes.

As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquencAs evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquencas criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.

It allows plant breeders to take a desirable trait (like resistance to drought, insects, weeds, and disease) from one plant or organism and transfer it to the plant they want to improve, as well as make a change to an existing trait in a plant they are developing.

Kepler has even identified some planets with Earth - like traits, such as Kepler - 452b, a near - Earth - size planet found in the habitable zone of a sun - like star.

Instead, like the inhabitants of Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon, people tend to see themselves and their peers as being unrealistically likable, moral, attractive, trustworthy, and all other manner of positive traits.