But the importance of
looking at consensus is that it shows how many people believe in one group of facts, and how many people believe in another.
They can
look at the consensus of authorities on the subject.
If
I look at the consensus more than the sceptical fringe it is because the consensus is larger by orders of magnitude (at least in Europe)
But why
look at a consensus of people?
Why not
look at a consensus of evidence.
Simply put, looking at skin in the game is on the same level as
looking at consensus, looking at politics, race, age, oil money, any host of factors that can «influence» or bias the result.
Not exact matches
Timmer: Yeah, so it's interesting because generally the earnings estimates, if you
look at the aggregated
consensus numbers, they tend to start high and drift lower.
CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis
looks at oil prices after a report from Interfax saying that the Saudis and the Russians have reached a
consensus on a production freeze.
And, if you
look at what happened yesterday as a whole, I think what you see is that cannabis reform was the one issue that was able to cut across party lines and unite voters in a bipartisan
consensus.»
Similarly,
looking at it from an enterprise value basis, assuming a free cash flow margin of 25 % for FY18 (
consensus estimates are
at 24 %) on sales growth of 12 % (in - line with
consensus) along with a EV / FCF multiple of 11x (in - line with the peak multiple leading up to the iPhone 6 cycle), we come up with a stock value in the mid $ 160s as well.
This Friday's preliminary
look at first - quarter GDP data is expected to show a deceleration in growth to 2.0 %, according to Econoday.com's
consensus forecast — the softest rise in a year.
The broad
consensus among economists who've
looked at NAFTA is that the deal has been undeniably good for all three countries by massively expanding trade and spurring economic integration.
I believe we're pretty close to
consensus,
looking at growth of just over two per cent — but that's still above what the Bank of Canada would consider to be potential and what most of us would consider to be potential,» said Douglas Porter, chief economist
at BMO Capital Markets.
I mean
look at mormons and scientologists, there's seems to be a
consensus from all of our species that our ancestors knew something we did not.
I do get frustrated when the
consensus seems to lean towards limiting fruit intake due to sugar or fructose content, when many of the fructose studies I've
looked at only deal with industrial fructose (like white table sugar), and then they lump fruit into that category by default.
And Oregon
looks like the
consensus No. 2 team in the country, with South Carolina sitting
at No. 3 and more than half a point (22.60) behind the Ducks despite earning seven first - place votes.
I had a strategy once that was basically
looking at stocks trading near their 52 - week low and how far away they were from their
consensus price targets and it worked terribly (the issue partly was because analysts can be slow to update their PTs to fundamental changes).
Right now, both McShay and Kiper have the Kansas City Chiefs selecting Texas A&M OT Luke Joeckel with the first overall selection, so we
looked up the NFL draft player props
at Bovada to determine whether this was the
consensus.
Finally, here's a
look at previous year's winners and their
consensus odds prior to the tournament.
By way of comparison I was
looking at Iniesta's and Xavi's La Liga stats — both players who only catch the eye in a big way occasionally but by common
consensus both are all time greats.
So if you eliminate those, and
look at fights where there is wide
consensus on who won and VERY RARELY do the judges actually mess up.
Here's a
look at recent winners and their pre-tournament
consensus odds:
Look also
at the commentators themselves — when was the last time you heard someone utter a phrase that seriously questioned the narrow
consensus that passes for public discourse in this country?
Richard Mabey: The Government should
look again
at the 2009 HS2 plans to build a cross-party
consensus for a better route
Theresa May, the home secretary, said the government wanted to seek
consensus on the bill and would be
looking at the timetable over the summer.
Good
looking, charming and superb
at handling the media and rallying the Tory Party machine Parkinson was the perfect front man for a radical government that was intent on transforming Britain and shattering the post-war political and economic
consensus.
In retrospect historians may
look at the period before the economic crisis hit as one of
consensus politics: where the Conservative opposition stuck to Labour's public spending plans.
We are simply to
look at it and by
consensus or voting approve of the agreement,» he said.
If you ask me when, I will not be able to say, but I am sure pretty soon the Cabinet Secretary will get a day when the entire Cabinet will retreat in order to
look at this bill properly and then when we have a final
consensus on it, we can then take it to Parliament,» he added.
If we are going to judge the truth of claims on the behaviour of those making them, it seems only fair to
look at the behaviour of a few of those questioning the scientific
consensus.
High - stakes lawsuits, including ones filed by former players against the NFL, have added to the pressure to come up with methods for diagnosing and tracking the disorder in living people, but such efforts have just crossed the starting line, researchers said last week
at a traumatic brain injury conference in Washington, D.C. Only in the past month or so have they arrived
at a
consensus about what CTE
looks like in postmortem brain tissue, findings presented this week in Washington, D.C.,
at the American Academy of Neurology meeting.
To inform the
consensus statement, the panel
looked at the availability of DIY genetic tests.
While such longitudinal studies are important, it's important to remember that the field is still young, with no
consensus on the best tools to
look for early signs of damage, said Michael Hutchison, a neuroscientist who directs a concussion program
at the University of Toronto and consults for the National Hockey League Players» Association.
«While we don't know which comes first — depression or cardiovascular disease — the
consensus is that depression is a risk marker for cardiovascular disease, meaning if you have cardiovascular disease, there is a higher likelihood that you could also have depression, when compared with the risk in the general population,» said Victor Okunrintemi, M.D., M.P.H., a research fellow
at Baptist Health South Florida in Coral Gables, Florida, and lead author of a pair of studies that
looked into different aspects of depression and cardiovascular disease.
Countless professional and honorific scientific societies have
looked at the science — and not one has dissented from the
consensus position.
So even though there may not be
consensus about what to do, there's an opening up in the field toward
looking at the problem of Alzheimer's in different ways.
You like to think that doctors have
looked carefully
at the appropriate scientific studies, understand the underlying pathophysiology in detail, then reach a
consensus on treatment.
I
look at the general
consensus regarding our health care industry and the medical industrial complex and I get sad.
I have
looked at Quackwatch and it is quite apparent to me that Stephen Barrett's knowledge base would be in tune with medical and nutrition
consensus from 50 years ago.In other words, woefully outdated.To give one example, Dr Robert Lustig's research linking fructose consumption to obesity has been universally accepted by the medical profession and nutritionists.It is quite evident he had not eve heard of such research.
We've collected a sample below, and you can take an even broader
look at the critical
consensus by visiting GameSpot sister site Metacritic.
And one of my favourite upsets ever was Juliette Binoche beating Lauren Bacall... one of those rare instances where the Academy actually
looked at the work and ignored the
consensus.
Last year was a good year to
look at stats because we had a clear
consensus frontrunner.
I
looked back
at the Guru's predictions and I found that if you
look at individual predictions people get things wrong but the
consensus seems to be right.
Looking at the number of ratifications of the statute, it might be said that there is an international
consensus on this definition.
Wrapping these ideologically charged reforms into an expert national «
consensus,» though, forces those who have concerns about these strategies to
look askance
at the SEL agenda — when it might instead make clear that there's room in the SEL coalition for those with diverse views on school discipline and instructional practice.
At the end of the game, students
look through their «disagree» pile and try to find some kind of
consensus.
«I think there is a
consensus that we want to
look at delaying the implementation,» said state Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan, (D - Middlesex), the committee's chairman, as he brought the meeting to a close.
And I think especially if you really
look at the data on what it means to have those quality programs in terms of the future education of those children, (there is) a growing
consensus on that part of it.
The outcome from the Think - Pair - Share group
consensus form NVUSD's grade - level expectations for what Collaboration proficiency
looks like
at that grade level.
Look at all the comments from your beta readers and see if there is a
consensus among the betas.