Sentences with phrase «making about that indicator»

He plucks out of context a sentence about OHC while ignoring the central argument we are making about that indicator — which is that if most of the heat is going into the oceans and we now have substantially better ways to measure OHC then why not use that measure.

Not exact matches

A lot of the indicators that make headlines say more about the past than the future.

The willingness of investors to embrace indicators without the slightest reflection about what they are intended to measure, frankly, makes us wince.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

The fact that I spent most of yesterday rewriting and editing this post, emailing trusted friends with drafts, making my husband re-read it over lunch, praying, rewriting a bit more, seriously contemplating deleting the whole thing and writing about cupcakes instead, and generally chewed my fingernails off is an indicator that I'm terrified to publish it.

To be perfectly honest Arsenal fans, I am never really sure what to make of the stories about things on social media being an indicator of what is happening behind the scenes.

Fortunately, my zen - like wife made me realize that even if this was the real deal, we were far from having to go to the hospital (You may hear in a birth class about waiting until contractions are about five minutes apart, lasting a minute long, as a good indicator it's time to go.

Savino also was asked about handwritten notes he made, wherein, he said, there were «indicators» that he had a telephone conversation with Mangano.

«But with the rapid increase in accessibility of data about research, we wanted to make clear our position that quantitative research indicators should be used responsibly,» he added.

The good thing about this is that exact numbers will be the indicators of your progress and there's no way to make a mistake about them.

Also join Downton Abbey's Production Designer, Donal Woods, on a behind - the - scenes tour of the downstairs kitchen set where he reveals fascinating facts about the kitchen's mammoth stove, the sink, the household indicator board, and the genuine 1919 vintage mixer that makes an appearance in season 4.

In reaching a conclusion, it's important to focus on devising Key Quality Indicators (KQIs) that will drive improvement; and initiate quality assurance tools that will help you to make better judgements about the standard of education and training you provide.

If regulators are unable to predict which schools will be good (assuming, falsely, that test score gains are a reliable indicator of good schools), how are they supposed to «protect» parents from making bad choices about schools?

And many teens understand that the images they see are curated snapshots, not real - life indicators, and are less likely to let those posts make them feel insecure about their own lives.

Using a dashboard of measures, states could use a tiered approach to make a series of decisions about school performance on particular indicators.

When key consumers and partners — especially aspiring school leaders and school districts — have good information about key program indicators, they can use that information to make more informed choices.

The proposed Future Ready PA Index will serve as Pennsylvania's one - stop location for comprehensive information about school success and will use a dashboard model to highlight how schools are performing and making progress on multiple indicators.

Currently schools are required to report to parents and the community on a variety of performance and facility indicators intended to help families make informed decisions about where to enroll their children.

A study released yesterday by Mathematica Policy Research (and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education) titled «Teachers with High «Value Added» Can Boost Test Scores in Low - Performing Schools» implies that, yet again, value - added estimates are the key statistical indicators we as a nation should be using, above all else, to make pragmatic and policy decisions about America's public school teachers.

Donald T. Campbell's 1976 paper presented a theory about social change that is now widely revered as Campbell's Law: «The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision - making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.»

This is particularly important as illustrated in the prior post (Footnote 8 of the full piece to be exact), because «Teacher effectiveness ratings were based on, in order of importance by the proportion of weight assigned to each indicator [including first and foremost]: (1) scores derived via [this] district - created and purportedly «rigorous» (Dee & Wyckoff, 2013, p. 5) yet invalid (i.e., not having been validated) observational instrument with which teachers are observed five times per year by different folks, but about which no psychometric data were made available (e.g., Kappa statistics to test for inter-rater consistencies among scores).»

As a result, when making decisions about what indicators to use for school classification, states should analyze the extent to which possible indicators have one or more of these characteristics.

Prioritizing equity would mean being upfront about how many schools need assistance and making equity more prominent on the dashboard display — possibly by placing the names of student groups on the top level of the dashboard or by creating an equity rating for each indicator.

Because oral reading fluency has been shown to be a reliable indicator of overall reading performance, national norms for reading fluency can provide a valuable tool for making key decisions about students.

If the driver uses the direction indicator to signal that he intends to change lane, the warning light flashes more intensely, signifying to the driver that the manoeuvre he is about to make is potentially dangerous.

But something about those steering column attached paddle shifters that make that area busy looking — with the instrument / indicator / wiper stalks just behind.

No matter what you think about homosexuality itself, Amazon made a decision to remove books that had certain indicators — and as a result, they've made it that much harder for people to find these contributions to a very important debate.

The Cool - ER's MP3 player is about as bare - bones as possible: I couldn't find an on - screen volume indicator (to reflect adjustments I made using the buttons on the right side), and the volume was rather low, even when turned up all the way.

This does not guarantee you a free device, make no mistake about it, but rather, it points as an indicator to the retailer so that they are able to gauge the general market's interest in such a device.

In all fairness I was just trying to make this dumb problem about rocks (the performance indicator in our curriculum) more interesting.

From an article in The Huffington Post about Buffett $ 34 billion buy, «Burlington Northern is the biggest hauler of corn and coal for electricity, making it an indicator of the country's economic health.

Lagging indicators claim to help traders make money by spotting trending markets, however, the problem is that they are «late» to the ball, meaning they fire off a buy or sell signal into a trending market after the market has already started to trend, and just as it is probably about ready for a counter-trend retracement.

But I never really thought about looking at charts as people making decisions, instead of patterns and indicators.

That's a good question since to do this properly, you'll need to analyze market indicators to make a reasonable prediction about future market behavior.

The strategy is easy to implement and just about anyone can add the basic indicators that makes up the system to the MT4 trading chart.

A foreign exchange trader is a person or a company that trades in Forex market using the strategies, indicators and multitude analysis of states of fluctuations in currency values, afterwards making decisions about selling or buying currencies securities or investments.

Algorithmic trading is a term which refers to the use of various technical indicators and advanced mathematics to make decisions about the timing, price and quantity of a market order.

So that isn't always an indicator you can trust when making a decision about buying treats.

Further to Thomason's comment about dynamic languages being an important focus for courses, he suspects that there will be some attention to make programming easier on PS4, and points to the steps Sony has taken with PlayStation Mobile as an indicator.

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By selecting a «Play» button to start a Alpha Version, you agree that: (i) playing Alpha Versions is at your own risk and you know that the Alpha Versions may include known or unknown bugs, (ii) any Virtual Goods or other value or status indicators that you achieve through game play may be erased at any time, (iii) RSI has no obligation to make these Alpha Versions available for play with or without charge for any period of time, nor to make them available at all, (iv) you may need to pay a subscription or access fee in order to access these Alpha Versions once the Alpha Test process is complete or at any time in the future; (v) these TOS apply to your use of the Alpha Versions during the Alpha Test, and (vi) if it is a closed Alpha Test, you will keep all information about the Alpha Materials confidential as stated above and not disclose such information to any other person.

Artists from Robert Rauschenberg to Christopher Wool have fostered skepticism about the role of the hand - made as an indicator of artistic genius or authenticity, a doubt that has found an outlet in a wide variety of paintings and artistic practices since the 1960s.

That illustrates my point, which is that present changes in surface temperature is not a good indicator of what we should expect in the future, and as such, it is not a great idea to make the debate about the observed ocean temperature.

Following my expedition, I made a short film about one of those animals that serves as an indicator of the changing climate, the Adelie penguin, which is restricted to Antarctica in its range.

«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

So if scientists can decipher the indicators delivered by AMOC, they can make an informed guess about the winter ice.

but makes However, this requires large speculative assumptions about the temporal and spatial stability of the climate «signal» relationship between proxy indicator and temperature represented in these proxy records.

If it is not immediately obvious the «recent research» analysis about the cold weather is trying to make an argument about weather patterns as an indicator of longer - term climate change.

If they had been honest and had reported the true and disconfirming scope of their statistical indicators, they'd not have been able to claim a «robust» reconstruction, would not have gotten published, and would not have been able to make spectacular millennial claims about 20th century temperatures.

Created by two trusted names in law firm management consulting, Karen MacKay of Phoenix Legal Inc. and Stephen Mabey of Applied Strategies Inc., the survey is aimed at firms with 100 or fewer lawyers and will provide benchmarks on key performance indicators that can be used by firms to make informed decisions about running their businesses.