Climate
models make assumptions that we know to be false, and yet we continue to use them.
Climate
models make assumptions that we know to be false, and yet we continue to use them.
Thereby,
the model makes no assumptions about how new alleles have been evolved, whether by drift or natural selection.
Still, he points out that
the models make the assumption that melting rates will increase in the near future and that, while this is likely, it is not necessarily a given.
Past research relying on either cross-sectional or main effect
models makes the assumption that low levels of perceived control will uniformly and consistently predict higher levels of depressive symptoms without taking into account contextual and environmental factors such as stress (see Alloy et al. 1988).
Not exact matches
A solid plan needs a complete financial
model and clear
assumptions: how much money is needed, where investments will be
made and where the money will get you.
It is essential that the right financial
model be used and that correct
assumptions be
made in forecasting the anticipated benefits, costs and returns of the new value proposition being considered.
The other heroic
assumption made by standard
models is that the central bank responds instantly a shock hits, and the economy responds instantly to the central bank's response.
The simple second year textbook Mundell - Fleming ISLMBP
model under flexible exchange rates
makes two
assumptions that we need to modify:
This retrospective summarizes key
models that
make psychology - based
assumptions about: individual preferences; individual beliefs; and, the process by which individuals
make decisions.
Obsolescence is hard to
model and can
make a mockery of the detailed financial
assumptions underlying buyouts.
«The thing about mathematical
modelling is that in order to
make problems tractable, you need to
make assumptions.
You'd probably have to come up with a statistical
model that estimates what the fluctuations should be given some basic
assumptions on how people will buy to
make a conclusive argument that there is something fishy here.
The
assumptions that we
make in running our
models inject uncertainty throughout the policy -
making process.
We build up a simplified
model of reality by
making assumptions about how the world works, and then we try to assume everything away apart from that specific issue we are focusing on.
«The
assumptions often
made are that Scripture should have no tensions and that any such tensions are not real but introduced from the outside, namely, by scholarship hostile to Christianity... It is a great irony that both the critical and evangelical options (as distinct from the Jewish
model) take part in the same
assumption: God's word and diversity at the level of factual content and theological messages are incompatible.»
The training we receive in the scientific method and
model construction habituates us to
making certain
assumptions about who we are and how we relate to nature.
Models that try to explain how life can come from non-life, and models that try to explain how something can come from nothing... THOSE kinds of models where un-observable assumptions must be inserted into the math to make it
Models that try to explain how life can come from non-life, and
models that try to explain how something can come from nothing... THOSE kinds of models where un-observable assumptions must be inserted into the math to make it
models that try to explain how something can come from nothing... THOSE kinds of
models where un-observable assumptions must be inserted into the math to make it
models where un-observable
assumptions must be inserted into the math to
make it work.
As with most political science
models, the Nomination Game is a tool for helping us think, but
makes some
assumptions that might not play out in the real world.
These developments could also significantly affect the
assumptions about the nature and extent of travel growth Government
makes in transport
models and appraisal.
It can capture the radiation precisely enough to measure cosmological quantities without
making many theoretical
assumptions, detect the rippling of gravitational waves and test various
models of the inflation thought to have occurred during the big bang.
Many of these simulations show an association between forest cover and rainfall, but every
model is different and
makes different
assumptions.
Because 2 - D
models make simplified
assumptions about some aspects of the flow, they can't account for changes in the flow, such as when the flood wave moves around large obstacles, changes rapidly in direction, or fully immerses bridge decks.
The
models rely on a long list of
assumptions,
making it difficult to know which one of them (if any) corresponds to the real world.
Most
model scenarios
make a big
assumption: that rising agricultural productivity and vegetable - based diets will limit the need for new farmland.
Ab initio calculations mean that researchers start with no
assumptions in their mathematical
models,
making a simulation more computationally expensive but also more accurate.
The researchers found that by
making tweaks to specific
assumptions in the
model, they could effectively force the
model to
make predictions that supported one government spending camp or the other — even if they used the exact same data.
MOND researchers had tried to do this before, but for their
models to work, they had to
make an untested
assumption about the relationship between a star's mass and the amount of light it puts out.
I retrieved data on multiple species from various research sites, and through comparative analyses of these data I explored trends and
made assumptions that allowed me to sketch out various ecological interaction
models.
Here, we
made the
assumption of conditional independence for two reasons: (1) since our AN
model had no correlated noise source, we wished to put the decoders from the three locations on an equal footing; (2) more importantly, ignoring noise correlations rendered inference far more tractable.
If astronomers
made the
assumption that velocities observed for Milky Way stars or nebulae were due primarily to the rotation of the Milky Way and that the Milky Way had a simple rotation
model, then they could use this
model to determine two possible distances for each star or nebula.
Using a new class of mathematical
models that do not
make many
assumptions about how behavior is organized, we will deconstruct the mouse's normal behavior into motifs, or syllables, and correlate those with brain activity.
On the limited information available to me, they seem quite promising — but it certainly would have been helpful in
making judgments on this point if the IPCC had
modelled a low - medium population projection (as in the A1 and B1 scenarios) which
made more moderate
assumptions about growth in output and energy use.
In Figure 1, I use the NCAR radiation
model, and don't
make any
assumption about the apparent sky emittance.
Your statement on mistaken
assumption # 5 about climate
model projections being theoretically based rather than empirically based is well
made.
In conclusion, any
model that does not
make use of appropriate
assumptions or real - world data will be of limited use.
«Climate
models can easily
make assumptions about reductions in future greenhouse gas emissions and project the implications, but they do this with no rational basis for human responses,» Gross said.
Differences in projections of warming by the end of the century appear to be related to
assumptions made on emission trajectories and the ambitiousness of climate policies beyond 2030 rather than differences in methodology or climate
modeling.
If we only
make the physical
assumption that the changes in expression level is smooth, and we knew the fine grained differentiation state, but no further
assumptions, we can
model the expression patterns using Gaussian Processes.
The core
assumption that eHarmony
makes when using
models based on data from married couples is that you can generalize their «fit» to data collected from singles.
When we look to test - based evidence — and look no further — to decide whether choice «works,» we are
making two rather extraordinary, unquestioned
assumptions: that the sole purpose of schooling is to raise test scores, and that district schools have a place of privilege against which all other
models must justify themselves.
Too many leaders «have a deficit
model» in which they «
make the
assumption that the community has nothing to offer the school improvement process,» she says.
The right way involves breaking through
assumptions,
modeling excellent practice, using feedback, creating a culture of practice,
making new skills stick, and hiring for practice.
I set up a factor
model that, under certain
assumptions,
makes this feasible.
It's a
model that seems certain to
make us question
assumptions about how we organize classrooms and schools.
But different value - added
models make different
assumptions about how much variation in test scores should be attributed to teachers.
While these
assumptions have an attractive ring to them, they rest on shaky ground, at best; the evidence to date suggests that few principals have
made the time and demonstrated the ability to provide high quality instructional feedback to teachers.17 Importantly, the few well - developed
models of instructional leadership posit a set of responsibilities for principals that go well beyond observing and intervening in classrooms — responsibilities touching on vision, organizational culture, and the like.18
Analogous
assumptions were
made for vehicles purchased in each following
model year.
Rather than feeling like authors are being left out of BitTorrent's
model, it's a safer
assumption that authors have enjoyed this level of freedom and control — quite successfully — for years; now it's time for other avenues of art to experience the say ability to generate content and
make it available without having to seek the approval of an established go - between.
My goal is to help you understand some of the
assumptions I've
made about the publishing process (which follows a traditional
model), as well as where you can save time and expense.