Sentences with phrase «meaningless when»

I left my job in recruitment and K - 12 education because I felt my work was meaningless when I realized large numbers of our students were graduating from college without the skills they need to participate in today's economy.»

Having a doctorate in something is really meaningless when MSM articles are devoted to opinion and hand waving, appearing more like the PhD was useless in the field for which it was intended.

Correlation to 0.1 accuracy between thermometers and proxy seems rather meaningless when neither measurement is reliable even to + / - 1.0 accuracy.

So that's a strong link but it's strength is meaningless when there's a link in the chain with only a tenth of that strength.

Indeed, the latter option may be desirable because, as noted by Cohn and Lins, «it may be preferable to acknowledge that the concept of statistical significance is meaningless when discussing poorly understood systems.»

BobN, Were those isotopes meaningless when they were used to shut down lines of inquiry regarding the origin of the CO2 inthe atmosphere?

Or were they only meaningless when they impled a vastly shorter t1 / 2 for CO2 in the atmosphere than the climatocracy needs?

Such macroscopic objects have quantum hair on the outside and quantum worms inside (so to speak) which make their bulk meaningless when there are sufficient numbers of them.

From a practical standpoint, however, it may be preferable to acknowledge that the concept of statistical significance is meaningless when discussing poorly understood systems.

Of course the phrase «peer reviewed» is meaningless when the peers (Christopher Monckton excepted) carry out the review.

Short term trend is meaningless when the frequency is long term.

Meteorologist Art Horn: «To say the 2010 was tied with the warmest year on record is essentially meaningless when viewed in a true historical context»: «The reason they do not give this record its true historical context is because their statement is really political»

As for cost - benefit analysis, it is meaningless when the estimated benefits range from zero to saving humanity.

Despite their appeal, such steps are almost meaningless when considering the grand challenge of limiting warming even as human numbers and energy appetites crest in coming decades, an array of climate scientists warn.

Running along a path while chasing down someone on the opposing side is instantly meaningless when a giant Zeppelin flies in overhead and starts laying waste to everything on the ground.

Offers of a year long health guarantee are meaningless when it comes to genetic issues that don't show up for 2 ‐ 6 years.

All this talk about fees, returns, etc. is meaningless when the numbers speak volumes!

, but IRRs become meaningless when you run out of money or you start diluting your shareholders to hell with poorly timed / priced placings.

When he tells Agnes, the narrator, that she will discover her life to be meaningless when she is an adult because, «you'll find out you're a clown in a trivial circus,» it comes across as a lament.

It's especially meaningless when the others in your group don't understand your genre or intended audience.

The CD designation was essentially meaningless when it was launched — the CD (from plates on diplomatic cars) meaning to convey a sense of prestige and luxury.

After all, a slap on the wrist is meaningless when one is eating chicken wings while ogling comely waitresses at Hooters and calling it a teaching experience to their young charges seated on the next stool.

At any rate, it could be argued that these threats of financial sanction for opt out are meaningless when our schools are already having money withheld: after more than a decade New York State still owes city schools nearly $ 2 billion dollars awarded by the courts in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.

Her claim that the gap has been closed at her school is meaningless when there are no white students attending.

This perhaps shows how the line between the two parties has become essentially meaningless when it comes to education.

It's fascinating to observe how such inspired concepts can be rendered almost meaningless when action sequences are imposed upon them.

I guess it's only meaningless when they don't nominate you, right Gary?

But really... these test tube studies are almost meaningless when it comes to human health.

We see incidental findings on X-rays all the time and they turn out to be meaningless when we get better views of them.

Basic tracking information such as steps, calories and heart rate without continuity are fairly meaningless when trying to improve cardio fitness.

But such estimates are meaningless when we know that some people are infected by a single exposure while others go uninfected after thousands of risky encounters.

But in the past half century, studies of sightrestoration, most notably by Oliver Sacks and Richard Gregory, haveverified that some things can't be understood without experience.Objects, faces, depth — just about everything that helps us function inthe world — are meaningless when a person who has never seen before getssight.

Anyway, the differences between a communist and a capitalist society become rather meaningless when talking about a post-scarcity society.

NFL personnel executives and scouts are often quick to point out that statistics are relatively meaningless when it comes to scouting a player.

Records are erased and league titles meaningless when the first pitch of the Sac - Joaquin Section baseball playoffs is thrown next week.

I find it particularly meaningless when this team's ability to handle the high press is consistently bad irrespective of who the CB pairing is, and Rugani having played the fewest minutes is the least culpable for the team's deficiency in this regard.

Man U and Tottenham had the best defense last season... Completely meaningless when you only look at goals conceded which is what you did.

And as I have said before, the general stats about career length are meaningless when it comes to assessing an individual player at this stage of his career, and a team would be negligent to rely on those stats to guide their decision making.

His glory and fortune and bright future can become meaningless when two burly defenders converge on him with the intent to commit mayhem.

Analysts and fans with agendas will ALWAYS use stats to support their agenda when they work and will disregard them as meaningless when they don't.

Everything else is meaningless when compared to that.

It is meaningless when it has no discernible intelligible order.

For them to say that they «know» that they have one is meaningless without any evidence, but even saying that they believe that they have one is meaningless when none have ever been proven to be real.

Klein for putting it so bluntly» the shibboleth of repeal is meaningless when one considers political realities.

My argument wouldn't be that I am offended so much... but that the oath becomes meaningless when it must be attached to bearded father figure sky god that will punish me for breaking the oath.

«The valuation of Saudi Aramco at IPO is largely meaningless when being sold to locals,» says Emad Mostaque, a strategist specializing in geopolitics, frontier markets and oil at London - based emerging markets consulting firm Ecstrat.

The move is not surprising and confirms what we already know: the Kimberley Process is meaningless when used by retailers who claim their diamonds are «conflict free».

He compared it to looking at the page of a book, which is meaningless when taken in as a whole and instead needs to be looked at word by word.

All of those prediction tools are meaningless when you get to small numbers.

Not exact matches

When employees feel like meaningless cogs, their work is unlikely to matter to them and they soon look for a job that's interesting and fulfilling.