Sentences with phrase «many hidden assumptions»

The problem is often that our hidden assumptions about the way the world works have not adjusted with changes in the world economy, and so are often misguided but nonetheless deeply held.

Since the late nineteenth century, however, except perhaps for a brief period before and after World War II, this is no longer the case, and we should not allow this hidden assumption to determine our explanations of trade imbalances.

I believe strongly in the need to go through the exercise of building a financial model (can focus mind and expose hidden assumptions and flaws), and agree that the focus should not be on formal financial documents or even on the resulting numbers themselves (that is, until you are up and running and have real numbers).

The problem is that Monte Carlo analysis depends on many hidden assumptions, and the same inputs to two differently built simulations can yield very different results.

An honest apologetic that presents rational arguments for a particular religious world view is less likely to indoctrinate then a superficially neutral presentation that contains hidden assumptions and bias.

There is a need to draw attention to the bias and hidden assumptions contained in the text books — and not just in religious studies, but in subjects across the curriculum where political indoctrination is taking place.

Thus, although we still need to respect the doorbell image, in the sense that the pastor must make himself available to his people and not merely wait in an office until they come, we must reject its hidden assumptions that pastoral work with people is routine, perhaps dull, and certainly not as central to ministry as preaching.

Praxis - thinking challenge this assumption of western Christianity, which is the hidden assumption of much of our education system.

These hidden assumptions come to light only when we begin to ask such questions as: What are those things that we never have to ask about?

It would not be difficult to show that these arguments contain hidden assumptions and logical lapses which invalidate them as demonstrative proofs.

But even here the emphasis falls on becoming aware of hidden assumptions, learning how to live with people whose «value systems» differ, and acquiring the critical detachment necessary for students to «choose for themselves what principles will guide them.»

In this regime that probes people's minds for hidden assumptions, for biases concealed even from their holders, the custodians have an impossible task.

All definitions reflect the hidden assumptions of the culture which produces them.

Moreover, our analysis does not depend on large, complex global climate models, the huge computer programs that are notorious for their hidden assumptions and adjustable parameters.

Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process.

By analyzing the discourse employed by politicians, lobbyists, think tanks, and special interest groups, the authors uncover the hidden assumptions that often underlie popular statements about school reform, and demonstrate how misinformation or half - truths have been used to reshape public education in ways that serve the interests of private enterprise.

Guest posting has a hidden assumption that your quality writing should be given away for free all in exchange for a backlink.

Looked at from that perspective, you are closer to being right but there are still some hidden assumptions.

The math reveals, but it also conceals hidden assumptions.)

Models often contain errors due to «hidden assumptions.»

But the hidden assumption in the use of the Carhart factors is the idea that no one can use them to make money over time on average.

Further, a certain amount of it is misinterpreted, or, those writing about it, even really bright people, don't understand the hidden assumptions that they are making.

Software developers acquire blind spots; they have hidden assumptions they don't even realize are assumptions.

I like to question some of our most cherished or hidden assumptions at: / / www.questioneverything.typepad.com

It's there as some sort of hidden assumption.

Then there's the hidden assumptions.

If there is a skill set that has been polished and advanced by the AGW / IPCC Kru, it is the technique and technology of concealing and burying hidden assumptions and parameters in a rat's nest of distractions, which then bloom and flower with the desired outcome and output, almost regardless of the real - world data input.

Your attempt to give it the meaning you wish («Nature is a net sink of CO2 ″) makes any number of hidden assumptions which we do not know are true or false.

The most dicey hidden assumption you make is that the exchange rate is very slow.

Moreover, our analysis does not depend on large, complex global climate models, the huge computer programs that are notorious for their hidden assumptions and adjustable parameters.

You go further — to break down the question a little and to tease out some hidden assumptions, but I think it is necessary to go further — if you spend 90 % of your time getting the question right, the answer will usually fall into your lap.

In the second case you introduce hidden assumptions of your own.

One of the hidden assumptions of proxy reconstructions, as carried out by IPCC authors, is that each «proxy» has a linear relationship to temperature plus relatively low - order red noise.

Judith, The opposite conclusion concerning the influence of increased uncertainty in the two alternatives is due to hidden assumptions.

That is why the usefulness of models in science is limited to analytical work such as discovering hidden assumptions.

Perhaps that conceals a hidden assumption, ie.

Hidden assumptions can still trip you up, but at least obvious points where the delegate is unclear will surface now, rather than after the delegate has performed significant work in the wrong direction.

Understanding a spreadsheet — not just reading the numbers, but learning how to uncover the hidden assumptions.

We need to challenge «hidden assumptions and stereotypes about the contribution that women should be allowed to make,» as well as the laws that perpetuate them.

There's an additional hidden assumption here: If it's real love, you won't have to work at it.

For example, therapists with their own histories of loyalty conflicts and alignments may hold hidden assumptions that could interfere with their ability to discern the realities of any specific case (Feinberg & Greene, 1995).

Not exact matches

What I like about the model I have described above is that it doesn't allow analysts to hide their implicit assumptions about credit growth, GDP growth, and the relationship between the two.

Matthew and Luke weren't hiding the truth, but they did want to distract their readers from the real problem about Jesus» birth: the sordid assumption that Jesus was a mamzer (Hebrew for «bastard»).

Yes, Milward disagrees with Wilson and with Asquith on this and that interpretation (as I have noted in my review), but all proceed from the common assumption that Shakespeare has hidden Catholic meanings in his plays that each can decipher.

There are cultural «repertoires of values,» says theologian Bernice Martin, which express themselves through a «hidden vocabulary» of symbols that saturate popular culture and structure its assumptions; We need, therefore, to look at

The assumption hidden in this procedure is that pure and true thought about reality can occur only when it is removed from act and practice follow theory: doing is an extension of knowing.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

In all effective psychotherapy there is hidden an implicit assumption that is made explicit in the Christian proclamation.

While Christians rightly believe that all truth necessary for such a spiritual experience is mediated only through the revelation in Christ, they must guard against the assumption that only those who know Christ «after the flesh», that is, in the actual historical revelation, are capable of such a conversion, A «hidden Christ» operates in history.

The new series will see the women «take part in a series of entertaining tasks and hidden experiments which will test their - and our - assumptions, challenge gender stereotypes and reveal fascinating truths about what it is to be a woman - and man - in the 21st century».