While company - produced scenarios could yield insights into how management views the company's prospects (a valuable disclosure of management's views if accompanied by proper disclosure of assumptions) the use
of different assumptions and models will not yield comparable outputs.
On the other hand, changes in, say, surface evaporation or wind speed are too dependent on basic physical assumptions, which vary between different models — the problem being that we currently lack the detailed observations and understanding needed to distinguish which
of the different assumptions is correct.
Our method for understanding this uncertainty was to test the sensitivity of the analysis to a range
of different assumptions.
Several sensitivity cases prepared for EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2018 (AEO2018) show the potential effects on the U.S. nuclear power fleet
of different assumptions for natural gas prices, potential carbon policies, and nuclear power plant operating costs.
Studies range widely in their conclusions about the degree to which Americans are likely to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living in retirement, largely because
of different assumptions about how much income this goal requires.
So it depends on all sorts
of different assumptions.
Third, a number of studies have shown that Taylor Rules are robust in the sense that they generally perform quite well across a range
of different assumptions about how the economy is structured and operates.
Studies range widely in their conclusions about the degree to which Americans are likely to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living in retirement, largely because
of different assumptions about how much income this goal requires.
Not exact matches
Another big part
of why Musk, Einstein and Jobs were able to be such original thinkers is because they had a sense
of «separateness» — a feeling
of being
different or disconnected from the crowd, which freed them to reject the conventional wisdom and
assumptions that constrained others.
Many
of Chase's employees said she would lose customers if she raised prices, because Zipcar had set up with
different assumptions.
«When you start with an
assumption of success at scale and work backwards, the steps you take to get there are
different.»
But the analysis can provide a reasonable guide to the underlying direction
of key variables, although specific estimates can be sensitive to
different assumptions.
The researchers calculated a range
of tax revenue losses depending on
different scenarios, including
assumptions that
different proportions
of the wages paid to family members were possibly overstated and were not earned.
Valuations that we have performed require significant use
of estimates and
assumptions, If
different estimates and
assumptions had been used, our common stock valuations could be significantly
different and related stock - based compensation expense may be materially impacted.
Another implication is that when considering what - if interest - rate scenarios and the ability
of the US government to meet its financial obligations under the
different scenarios, the
assumption should be made that the portion
of the debt held by the Fed has an effective interest rate
of zero.
The
assumption of abundant natural gas could be wrong — many «experts» are not even thinking
of vastly
different outcomes to their models.)
I'd read EREVN's various posts on medium.com and need to re-read to absorb the subtleties
of his
assumptions and approach and how they differ from McClung's as they case a somewhat
different light on Prime Harvesting.
Attempts to compare evangelical liturgical practices to those
of more high church traditions are often doomed from the start because
of the fundamentally
different assumptions that undergird both.
And is Gregory not right to worry «how the kinds
of knowledge thereby gained in
different disciplines might fit together, or whether the disciplines» respective, contrary claims and incompatible
assumptions might be resolved»?
The modern issue
of «judicial activism» is, accordingly, tied up with a very
different set
of historical and legal
assumptions, specific to the American context.
While introducing his project
of comparing Whitehead and Heidegger on time, Mason suggests that the paucity
of previous efforts is «a function
of the
assumption that their modes
of philosophizing are so
different as to render the thought
of the one completely irrelevant to that
of the other» (p. 83).
Therefore, the
assumption that «so help me god» is a direct reference to the god
of Abraham shouldn't just enrage atheists, but also people who believe in a
different god, such as people
of the Hindu or Native American religions.
It's easy to make
assumptions about other pilgrims on the journey, especially when they say their broken prayers from the pews
of a
different church building.
A number
of assumptions commonly accepted among Christians are shown to be
of a very
different ideological provenance.
He uses these
assumptions to introduce a new kingdom, one that is drastically
different from the kingdom
of this world.
As noted in the introduction, I am also making another,
different kind
of assumption that readers will make use
of these questions in whatever way seems most helpful.
Our
assumptions, economics and politics today are much
different than the
assumptions, economics and politics
of the writers thousands
of years ago.
Also I guess you are right about my
assumption about the need in people for God, some seem comfortable without him, though there may be
different degrees
of God in all people.
A national study
of commune members, for example, showed that many individuals in these settings held
assumptions different from the official ideologies
of their communes.11
We unintentionally start with the
assumption that our Western culture has it all figured out instead
of listening to people who might have a
different perspective.
He may also have discovered that the Song
of Solomon, often called the Greatest
of Songs, lifts the soul beyond the «thou shalts and thou shalt nots»
of our pedestrian lives and gives us courage to confront and challenge the barriers that limit women and the
assumptions that limit all who are
different.
But his protest came too late to still the rising chorus
of voices insisting that something was radically
different between the claims
of Christ and the
assumptions of the modern era.
What is, however,
of a
different order
of magnitude is the convergence
of technological, institutional, political, and cultural currents, historic bases on which
assumptions about religion, speech, press, and self - government are based.
Even so brief a survey
of the affirmations
of Christian faith in contrast with the
assumptions of naturalism should make it apparent that the viewpoint from which the Christian looks at life is
different.
That
different fields
of study operate with
different assumptions is perfectly acceptable.
If she had, she would have witnessed a
different kind
of radical inclusion — one based not on the
assumption that each person is secretly intelligent, or capable
of consensual and pleasurable sex, but instead on Christ's blood poured out for many.
First, Whitehead lays out in The Principle
of Relativity
assumptions carried over from his philosophy
of nature which are
different from Einstein's and which imply a concept
of simultaneity
different from Einstein's.1 «Second, Whitehead's concept
of simultaneity can be found to be implicit in his discussions
of his theory
of spacetime, though he never draws specific attention to it or directly asserts the nature
of his divergence from the Einsteinian concept.
This
assumption is simpler and more economical than the Kantian
assumption which believes that our certitude and symbolizations about God are
of a
different order than those referring to other relationships.
Thus there is little hope for our recovering a feeling
of truly belonging to the cosmos as long as we hold onto the
assumptions about physical reality (such as the primacy
of primary qualities and cognate
assumptions) underlying scientism and materialism.5 For we will continue to have a gnawing suspicion that the real world is so
different from our projections that we are still without a home in the universe as it runs on colorlessly and meaninglessly beneath our secondary and tertiary «subjective» projections.
It is the thesis
of this book that the mass media
of communication have placed Americans in an environment so
different from former times that our values,
assumptions, perspectives and worldview, and therefore our understanding
of religion, are affected at their roots.
Our efforts thus signal the substantive difference that
different approaches can make, as well as the importance
of taking the best approach possible, by which I mean the one with the most warranted and illuminating
assumptions.
I had claimed that, on his process
assumptions, «it is quite unlikely that the world
of nature is radically
different than God intended it to be.»
Clearly, then, a study
of the various
assumptions underlying the
different approaches from which the interpretations
of Whitehead proceed is
of fundamental importance and very much in order.
The dominant
assumption has been that the evaluation
of different kinds
of sexual expressions should center on whether they are or are not expressive
of love.
Now, on the dualistic
assumption, one can not see more than two really
different sorts
of dependence
of our mind on our brain: Either
Leibniz strongly opposed the
assumption and developed a theory
of body, and matter, as composite, with the constituents entities
of a very
different kind, explicitly nonmaterial.
The
assumptions of economics are
different from those
of the natural sciences, although they overlap.
Other scholars use more radically modified methods
of literary criticism proceeding from the basic
assumption of multiple sources; and in Germany in the past few decades interest has shifted to a
different approach known as form criticism which asks
different questions
of the text.
This confusion is reflected in the sentence at the end
of this argument, in which he says: «I conclude that, on process
assumptions, it is unlikely that the world
of nature is radically
different than God intended it to be.»
If that power has seemed to be on the wane in recent history, it is due in large part to the widespread
assumption that reason and faith belong to
different realms, or represent
different, even conflicting, dimensions
of human experience.