Sentences with phrase «margin for error on»

The last two weeks of the 2006 campaign have House Democrats seeking to expand the playing field of competitive races in hopes of giving themselves a larger margin for error on Nov. 7.

An opening scoreless draw against South Korea left little margin for error on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), but the Matildas responded in perfect fashion with a one - sided victory to sit top of their group on goal difference.

Not exact matches

A Monmouth University survey released on Wednesday — conducted by telephone, and with a plus - or - minus 3.5 % margin of error — found that 51 % of registered voters said they would vote for or lean toward a Democratic candidate if the 2018 elections were held today, compared to just 36 % who said they would vote or lean Republican.

«It's tough to look at a full year of losses on Amazon (+56 %), athenahealth (+26 %), Netflix (+55 %) and Tesla (+46 %) when we believe all those stocks appeared priced with little margin for error entering the year, and none executed well or met fundamental expectations in 2017,» he wrote.

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For results based on the total sample of baby boomers born 1946 - 1964, the margin of sampling error is ± 4 percentage points at the 95 % confidence level.

Family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and acquaintances from high school we stalk on Facebook all press us with the idea that we've got little margin for error in our twenties — that life should play out like a clear - cut script.

The margin of error to be allowed for in any estimate depends mainly on the number of interviews on which it is based.

total fumbles, but the margin of error for Philadelphia on Sunday is too damn thin for him to be playing with the church's money.

S&P + since 2007, so the margin for error here is comfortable, but there might be more questions on that side of the ball than there have been in quite a while.

We find out on Sunday as the defending Super Bowl champs face the Baltimore Ravens with their margin for error sliced to nothing.

Chelsea have been in formidable form since Conte switched to a 3 -4-2-1 system on the back of a chastening 3 - 0 loss at Emirates Stadium in September, and Pires acknowledges the Gunners have little margin for error with 15 top - fight games remaining this term.

Hope, as is rises just now, when we won, when I tell myself, come on, it's not impossible, it's NEARLY impossible, that margin of error in an otherwise solid judgement based on facts, the irrationality behind it, the fact that right now I am happy for this victory and I'm already starting to build up hype for the next game, and put pressure on myself so I can utterly be even more disappointed when the lads screw it up.

Following Sweden's 4 - 0 win over Belarus earlier on Saturday, there was little margin for error against the European minnows at Stade Josy Barthel.

You can make the assumption that Klopp, Buvac, Krawietz and Lijnders in toe, left little margin for error in getting the attacking signings right, based on the players that were signed and the transfer fees paid for them.

This is not to say you can't give second chances or allow a certain margin of error, but for the most part, you should act on what you say.

This seems to be on the back of opinion polls which may not have changed if you allow for their inbuilt margin of error and which certainly ignore the fact that Northern marginal seats are running ahead of the national figures.

Changes are from the last ComRes poll conducted on the telephone at the beginning of January, and show no significant change beyond the margin of error — though, for the record, this the biggest Labour lead ComRes have recorded since the general election.

The margin of error for Republicans, especially on Long Island, is small considering the narrow divide of the chamber.

Land Only: The August global land temperature was the second highest for August on record, behind only 1998, at 1.78 °F (0.99 °C) above the 20th century average of 56.9 °F (13.8 °C), with a margin of error of + / - 0.43 °F (0.24 °C).

In other words, the everyday driving environment affords so little margin for error that any distinction between «on» and «in» the loop can quickly become moot.

The margin of sampling error for results based on all adults is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

The margin of error for results based on the full sample is + / - 3.1 percentage points.

Cons: Since this method relies on accurate readings from only a handful of sites on the body, margin for error can vary depending on the experience and knowledge of the technician.

This is another suggestion based on the margin for errors — the «it» business dress is pretty much a no brainer.

For results based on Internet users (n = 1,895), the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

But as that's not 100 % foolproof the net result is a +2.8 point bias for released films vs pre-released films, a margin of error small enough to have negligible impact on our research, as you'll see below.

The margin of error for responses given by the full sample in the EdNext - PEPG survey is roughly 3 percentage points for questions on which opinion is evenly split.

The results presented for subgroups within the sample have larger margins of error, depending on their actual size.

With 3,251 total respondents, the margin of error for responses given by the full sample in the Education Next — PEPG survey is 1.7 percentage points (for items on which opinion is evenly split).

With some 2,600 total respondents, the margin of error for responses given by the full sample in the Education Next — PEPG survey is roughly 2 percentage points for questions on which opinion is evenly split.

With 2,776 total respondents, the margin of error for responses given by the full sample in the Education Next — PEPG survey is 1.86 percentage points for questions on which opinion is evenly split.

The margin of error cuts both ways, however, as the 2007 statewide averages for all students in Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Texas all fell within two points of Florida's average for Hispanics on the 4th - grade reading exam.

For results based on the 233 parents of school - aged children, the margin of sampling error is ± 8 percentage points at the 95 % confidence level.

RCTs are the gold - standard for evaluating the effectiveness of social programs because the act of randomly assigning participants to the program or control group assures that, to a statistically determinable margin of error, the two groups are identical on everything that could influence the outcomes being measured except their group assignment.

So assessing a child on 47 different competencies is hardly going to be an appealing task for a hard - pressed teacher, especially when the tests themselves are claimed to have quite a margin of error.

On tight mountain passes with little margin for error, the hefty 2018 Ford Mustang GT PP1 inspires confidence, tackling hairpins with the sort of speed that would make earlier iterations of the grand tourer need to back down.

The margin of error to be allowed for in any estimate depends mainly on the number of interviews on which it is based.

And when they are priced as cheaply as they are today, there is certainly margin for error if earnings reports are a little on the aggressive side.

In contrast, I've often quoted the Shiller P / E (which essentially uses a 10 - year average of inflation - adjusted earnings) as a simple but historically informative alternative, but I should emphasize that we strongly prefer our standard methodologies based on earnings, forward earnings, dividends and other fundamentals, all which have a fairly tight relationship with subsequent 7 - 10 year total returns (see Lessons from a Lost Decade, The Likely Range of Market Returns in the Coming Decade, Valuing the S&P 500 Using Forward Operating Earnings, and No Margin of Safety, No Room for Error).

It's a good idea to tack an extra 10 % on top of this then, just to build in a margin for error.

The larger the discount on the market, the more margin for error you have in your value calculation.

Sure, that's based on a number of (fairly reasonable) assumptions, but we can also hope for some organic (and / or new acquisition - related) growth to provide us with a decent margin of error.

The total margin of error on weighted data for the full sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level.

It's a lot more fickle than most, with a rapidly moving needle and a very small margin for error; if your timing isn't on point, your shot will swerve a good deal off its intended course.

But the new Zelda game just has to live up to the hype now, since Nintendo have no margin for error and are resting their hopes for the next ten or so months on this one title.

But as you progress further and the margin for error gets smaller and smaller, you'll realize that even with some of the best tilt controls on the iPhone, maintaining control of the car is frustrating when you're getting rammed.

The future promises a world with no margin for error, an environment that verges on perfection.

On a related note... is it true that the «margin of error» for the «global surface temperature» is actually larger than the net warming in the 20th century?

Measuring the distance apart and speed of 2 satellites in space orbiting the earth to the width of a human hair with no margin for error [damn those drift recalculations], and taking into account unknown factors with respect to the true values for water depth, water weight at different salt concentrations, ice depth magma flows, volcanic activity etc [ie making a lot of guesses], plus taking human motivation on board [like CO2 increase must melt ice surely] can give you an accurate measurement of the volume ice in Antarctica.