Sentences with phrase «many anecdotal»

According to Ted Conley, who heads up North American marketing for the condom maker's parent company: «The category has traditionally been strong at times of economic downturn and we are getting anecdotal evidence that the same can be said for today.

What the anecdotal evidence and various research studies describe is a picture of a maturing (or mature) industry.

For a look at the variety in edibles and anecdotal evidence of its growth, an instructive stop is Wana Brands.

Of course, not every mental activity can or should be performed while walking, but this new research reinforces anecdotal evidence and other research findings that suggest being too tightly chained to our desks is bad for our minds as well as our physical health.

While anecdotal, such personal stories tend to bring home the fact that rank speculation seems to be in full bloom in the housing market.

Plus, research and anecdotal evidence suggests that spending too much time gazing at perfectly curated profiles on Facebook, profiles that often eliminate all the warts and stresses of a person's real life, can knock your self - esteem.

Entrepreneur has gathered plenty of anecdotal evidence for this lifestyle hack over the years.

The reason: Most of today's conversations on colors and persuasion consist of hunches, anecdotal evidence and advertisers blowing smoke about «colors and the mind.»

These are anecdotal examples, but more and more of them are popping up every day.

Tony Nash, managing director at the consulting firm IHS, pointed to anecdotal evidence to show that Japan's economic prospects are turning around.

Anecdotal evidence also paints a rosy picture: Witness the rise of Bulletproof Coffee — that is, butter in your morning java — which has garnered international attention and support from celebrity investors such as Tim Ferriss.

Indeed, anecdotal evidence suggested mobile sales set a new record on Friday, data from Adobe Insights showed.

And given the anecdotal reports, this behavior could be widespread.

Amazon says it isn't, but as the Times article itself states, «It is difficult to comprehensively track the movement of prices on Amazon, so the evidence is anecdotal and fragmentary.»

Indeed, anecdotal evidence might suggest something quite different.

While evidence is anecdotal, some employers seem set to continue drug testing all applicants and taking a hard line on use of opioids, methamphetamine, and cocaine.

Given the low unemployment rate, anecdotal evidence from a variety of companies, and alternative measures such as the Atlanta Fed wage tracker showing stronger growth, wage growth may not be back at precrisis levels, but the trend over the past year shows wages are certainly headed in the right direction.

But anecdotal evidence, at least, suggests that directors often doubt the reliability and value of comp consultants, even after having paid good money for their advice.

How's that for anecdotal evidence?

Anecdotal evidence of self - made millionaires who never went to college should be enough to prove that you don't need a fancy or expensive program to learn important skills.

Anecdotal evidence is that the guys were otherwise engaged.»

Steeped in ample anecdotal evidence, those programs are beginning to track numbers to back the influx.

And, recent anecdotal reports suggest that some young voters are even disaffiliating with the Republican Party.

His evidence is largely anecdotal, but compelling: «When even one more person is added to the mix, the situation becomes more stable, but this stability may stifle creativity, as roles and power positions harden,» he writes.

Maybe not to all shoppers, but anecdotal evidence suggests live - chat technology works.

But he, too, acknowledges that the evidence is both thin and anecdotal — or at least it was until the study he and his colleagues published yesterday.

By all accounts, from the anecdotal to the rigorously research - backed, having a positive outlook can have a huge impact on your happiness, productivity and even your business.

The evidence for that is mostly anecdotal, but interesting none the less.

Circumstantial and anecdotal evidence suggest that these capital inflows have had a large and growing influence on the Canadian housing market, whose imbalances continue to represent a key risk to the Canadian economic and financial outlook.»

But for fun I'll put a few anecdotal sign posts that suggest we are in a bubble.

From an anecdotal standpoint, I've known a large number of successful people, most of whom earned it the hard way but some of whom were raised by wealthy families, and those who went further in their careers and were happiest with their lives were the former, not the latter.

This includes millennials, which anecdotal evidence suggests are gravitating more to «experiences» instead of goods or services.

Increasing exposure to larger deals (there is considerable evidence, anecdotal and otherwise, that lenders are seeking to raise their hold limits on syndicated deals) will create an uncomfortable dynamic in which the failure of some deals will be too painful to contemplate, suggesting drawn - out turnarounds as an approach to increase enterprise value and bailout lenders unable to take severe haircuts on large exposures.

At this point, that's an anecdotal theory.

From an anecdotal perspective... I went to all these ward meetings.

As opposed to the anecdotal tactics of Ronald Reagan and yellow journalism that sold papers.

The rationale for the program relies on pockets of acute labour shortages, for which there is anecdotal evidence, but little in the way of analysis.

Over the years, both studies and anecdotal information have confirmed that franchisees will outperform managers when it comes to revenue generation.

Writing a blog not only creates content — whether it's service - oriented or anecdotal — which can be used in a variety of marketing strategies, such as serving as content for email newsletters or providing a call - to - action.

If anecdotal evidence (and personal experience) is anything to go on, the answer is quite a few.

My evidence here is purely anecdotal, but I suspect that people generally value being handed the opportunity to engage in small, reasonably pain - free acts of kindness or generosity.

Though there has never been hard data on the presence of wealthy Asian investors, enough anecdotal evidence exists to suggest they have played at least some role in the multimillion - dollar home segment.

People might know a few anecdotal examples of this, like the fact that Fred Smith was a Marine officer who observed the military logistics system before he founded FedEx.

Anecdotal evidence backs up the contention that products like Cisco (csco) Webex, another web conference product, and GoToMeeting require multiple steps and / or downloads to set up.

Until now opposition has been based on vague correlations, anecdotal evidence and hunches on the part of people opposed to the pressurized cracking of underground rock formations.

But here at Inc. we've already assured them that you can be taken seriously as a bright young thing as an entrepreneur — in fact, research and anecdotal evidence suggests youth can actually work to your advantage.

One needn't look far for anecdotal evidence supporting this impression.

But she said based on anecdotal evidence, it doesn't seem like perpetrators of mass violence are more likely to have mental health problems than anyone else.

Rather than rely on anecdotal data, BCG did a thorough zip code cluster analysis and discovered something interesting: unlike what they'd assumed, their senior partners weren't typically on the Upper East Side (a Manhattan neighborhood quite far from the Hudson Yards site) and far out in the suburbs.

Based on anecdotal evidence I've collected after working in the digital - marketing space for 15 years, I'm confident saying that the vast majority of those hiring an SEO firm end up being disappointed.