The Department for Education will change the methodology for its Progress 8 accountability measure in 2018, after a consultation revealed school leaders are angry over the «disproportionate» impact
of outliers on their overall scores.
However, it's not a good idea without some idea of the impact
of those outliers on the greater whole.
A couple
of outliers on the list include plumbing engineer (spot number 14), registered nurse in the infusion field (spot number 24), and optometrist (spot number 7).
Not exact matches
There will always be
outliers,
of course, people like Mark Zuckerberg and Richard Branson who seemingly change the world and create business empires all
on their own.
They're
outliers on at least a handful
of spectrums; maybe you're extremely intelligent or highly outgoing and charismatic, or maybe you are compulsive and tend to jump into things without thinking.
Outliers, like a player
on the opposite team getting lucky and having the game
of his life, were out
of our control but we never succumbed or ceded control
of the game.
WASHINGTON, April 18 - «Robust» business borrowing, rising consumer spending, and tight labor markets indicate the U.S. economy remains
on track for continued growth, the Federal Reserve reported
on Wednesday, with the risks
of a global trade war the one big
outlier.
It's also to be expected that toward the bottom
of the specialty lists, where it takes a mere seven mentions to get
on, an
outlier or two might appear.
The Red Bull Media House and a few other
outliers have already demonstrated the potential rewards
of doubling down
on the strategy
of becoming a niche publisher
of quality, targeted content.
In 2014, hundreds
of books were released
on the topic (according to Amazon the number is a staggering 437, but that comes from a simple subject search, and likely includes many
outliers).
And with 500 companies
on the list, I avoided «
outliers» that succeeded because
of the unusual talent (or luck)
of the founder.
I should note, however, that
on the basis
of a much broader set
of regional and national Fed and purchasing managers surveys, the 50.2 number was a large
outlier — a figure closer to 48 was implied by that other data.
The only
outlier of the group is Gain Capital, not surprisingly, as forex trading fees involve spread cost and rollover fees based
on currency interest rate differentials.
You have
outlying phenomena that you can't anticipate
on the basis
of previous experience.»
Many businesses spend between 9 and 16 percent
of revenue
on marketing, although there are some major
outliers.
As a result
of the positive data
on both areas
of the economy, many market participants concluded the weakness in the August reports was likely to have been an
outlier and unreflective
of the economy's underlying strength.
Generally, credible scientists will base conclusions
on what a significant portion
of the evidence suggests, not based
on the
outlier data which is presented in evolutionary studies.
Obviously there are
outliers on both sides
of this, but scroll through just about any comments section
on this site where race comes up.
Are we then to conclude that God's only Son became uniquely incarnate once and for all
on the third planet
of a rather ordinary
outlying star
of a thoroughly undistinguished galaxy?
You keep insisting that most churches accept the LGBT community and just a few
of the more radical
outliers, like Westboro Baptist, are the ones who support a ban
on same sex marriage.
From his list, most
of his choices are
on the West Coast, but Louisville - Lafayette seems like an
outlier.
Carroll was at ease being the
outlier in a career full
of one - dimensional men: He didn't eat and sleep
on his office couch; didn't demean or threaten his players; didn't fret over minutiae.
either ramsey or arteta should have been left out from the start to make way for sanchez... but wengers absurd strategy
of endless rotation plus out
of positioning has delivered nothing... he is addicted to it
on the belief he can get the best out
of players regardless
of what they think... i know some idiot is going to talk about henry but stop living
on outliers from the past and start looking at the teams we have to beat to get beyond 4th
Most sportsbooks take very low limits
on these types
of prop bets, although Bookmaker.eu was somewhat
of an
outlier with max bets
of $ 500.
Maybe he goes
on to become the
outlier of outliers, as insisted
on by every draft scout who watches him throw in shorts against no defenders.
Just based
on the statistics, there is a slight, slight hangover, but both
of these teams would be huge
outliers if they kept up their current paces.
People may vary
on how they define «
outlier» depending upon their specific industry — in my work I typically view
outliers as things more than 3 standard deviations from the mean (standard in many industries because 99.7 %
of data falls within + / - 3 standard deviations)-- but nobody in his right mind calls 1.1 standard deviations an
outlier because that would exclude over 25 %
of the data.
The range
on the chart above is huge because
of two
outliers: USF's big - play numbers were off the charts, and despite quarterback injury issues, Navy's efficiency was as ridiculous as ever.
In retrospect, Cerci's magical 2013 - 2014 season with Torino was probably an
outlier, but he did grab four goals in only eleven matches with Genoa last year, putting 50 %
of his shots
on target and converting 25 %
of those into goals, so the cupboard isn't exactly bare.
Okaka's average
of 1.3 dribbles per game is an
outlier compared to his teammates, but he posts such a high number compared to Deeney and Gray because he drops deeper to get
on the ball and link the play — something they do not do so often.
Its funny because I was going to write a blog post
on how career
outliers like Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg won't let the rest
of us working moms be great.
There is an effect to being part
of an
outlying group, and parents should realize teh effect this may have
on their child.»
Babies usually learn to crawl between seven and 10 months
of age, although some may be
outliers on either end
of this spectrum.
Firstly, Israel relies
on suboptimal polling methodology: samples are too small (often only 500 people) to filter out the effect
of outlier results, and there are too few polls to accurately measure opinion at any given moment.
Be sure to check out Kate Harding's recent Salon.com take
on S.E. Cupp, a rising star in the right - wing punditosphere — and a non-blonde atheist, which makes her a bit
of an
outlier and a more interesting character than most
of the cookie - cuttter talking heads that dominate Fox News.
You can see that after 1996 the turnout has been quite low
on average, so the referendum
of 2005 is not a significant
outlier, but I still remember a vast and hard campaign from conservatives (and especially the church) that were calling for abstentionism.
Tory members are also considerably more sceptical about the benefits
of immigration — and they are
outliers on gay marriage, with only four in ten supporting it compared to at least eight out
of ten members
of other parties.
Except for a small — but notable — group
of outliers, local governments and school districts are not providing clear or comprehensive or even the most basic information
on their websites.
Admittedly, the UK could be an
outlier of some kind - it doesn't necessarily follow, I have to admit, that because PR
on average has this effect, it will necessarily have it in the UK in future.
The proposal would create a consistent toll cordon for Manhattan south
of 60th Street while lowering tolls
on outlying bridges to raise funds for transit and roads (mostly transit).
On the eve
of the election, Selzer and the Register published what appeared to be an
outlier poll that showed Ernst up by seven points.
Putting aside YouGov's poll
on Tuesday which looked like a bit
of an
outlier, this is the higher Labour have been for a long time (though they remain 7 points behind the Conservatives, also high compared to most recent polls), and the lowest the Liberal Democrats have been.
We probably could never agree to act as a single bloc
on anything short
of defending the freedom
of the press; there will always be the
outliers who can't resist the temptation
of scoring «a scoop» based
on anonymous source (s).»
The ICM poll findings do not appear to reflect any change in the underlying support for Labour since the party's standing
of 36 % remains unchanged
on last month — although party supporters may hope to dismiss it as an
outlier.
In exploring the paradoxical status
of the United States as a both a leader and an
outlier in human rights, the book proposes a renovation
of the Constitution in light
of changing international norms
on human rights.
Rickman's proposed method uses parallel coordinates, which is a method
of visualizing data that makes it possible to spot
outliers or patterns based
on related metric factors.
Interestingly, the healthy HIV - negative Bostonians were the
outliers, the guts
of the other three groups was relatively similar; that was particularly true
of untreated persons
on both continents.
«
Outlier practice patterns in health care, and specifically Mohs surgery, can represent a burden
on patients and the medical system,» says John Albertini, M.D., immediate past president
of the American College
of Mohs Surgery and the paper's other senior author.
But the region between those
outlying neighborhoods and the close - in domains
of hot Jupiters and super-Earths remains stubbornly out
of reach: too close to the star for direct imaging, too far for indirect techniques relying
on stellar wobbles or dimming.
To tell the difference, the model calculates the mass
of living things you would need
on the surface to produce the
outliers.