Sentences with phrase «often make decisions based on»

And what I see often enough leads me to come to this principle — that people often make decisions based on something that is actually a small part of their lives.

One of the biggest problems is couples often make these decisions based on emotional reactions rather than a full understanding of future implications.

As humans, we rely heavily on our emotions and often make decisions based on our feelings rather than on logic.

Trial and jury consultant Marshall Hennington said one reason personal - injury lawyers do so well in The Bronx is because «disenfranchised» jurors often make decisions based on emotions rather than evidence.

Why the public loves OKC: The Thunder have been a public favorite all season because of the talent packed into their starting five, but, since bettors often make decisions based on the last thing they see, today's public support is probably due in large part to their impressive win in Houston on Saturday.

He says boards are often making decisions based on what ISS and Glass Lewis deem to be appropriate.

The move doesn't make fiscal sense, especially for a team who so often makes decisions based on fiscal responsibility.

Not exact matches

Often you'll decide to step away from work to exercise, or meditate, or spend time with friends — the decisions you make will be based on the way you define success.

Given how much information we're all constantly bombarded with, it often happens that people make decisions based on first impressions rather than a thorough reading of whatever you're sending them.

All too often people make decisions based on fear and this prevents us from making any real progress.

While senior sales professionals focus heavily on «total income potential» — meaning they consider performance - based commissions and bonuses heavily in their decision - making — in our experience new graduates are a little more risk averse and often lean toward the biggest salary.

This directly affects the atheist who often sees bad policy decisions and laws being made based on belief.

They read labels and often make purchase decisions based on nutrition profiles.

The problem, as Paul S. Echlin, M.D. of the Elliott Sports Medicine Clinic in Burlington, Ontario, Canada and author of the Canadian study, points out, is that the «young athlete is often caught between competing demands of the adults around them» and «sometimes make decisions based on the adult whom they perceive to have the most influence on their success, and also whom they wish most to please for a variety of reasons.»

Families, doctors, midwives and policymakers often make decisions about where to plan a birth based on their understanding of the published research.

Readers often make purchasing decisions based solely on the opinions of trusted mom bloggers.

As parents, we often make purchasing decisions based on calculated risks.

«Too often when legislators of color make decisions based on helping their constituents, they are demonized and accused of having a financial motivation,» Alcantara said in a statement to the Voice.

Under court supervision, and often on a last resort basis, Scott steps in and helps in instances when a person becomes unable to make personal or financial decisions.

We make decisions based on immediate examples that come to mind, which is often efficient.

(in study design) To assign people in one group or another based on no particular reason; indeed, researchers often use a computer to make the decision without knowing anything about the individual.

We often use one or two geological models produced by geophysics, test them by drilling some holes and then make a decision based on the results.

«People make decisions based on what they can afford, and sadly what they can afford often is cheap foods,» Ritz explains in the film.

You care deeply about your family and friends, and you often make intuitive decisions based on your heart.

In the crazy world of online dating, people often make snap decisions based on very little information and a huge part of what helps them make that decision is the profile photo.

When we profile people, we often make poor decisions about them because our decisions are based on generalities rather than information about each individual person.

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Data is only as valuable as the questions you ask of it: insight provides the human element which can so often be missing from decisions made based purely on facts and figures.

Often the difference between critical thinking and non-critical thinking comes down to the difference between making decisions based on facts and logic, and making decisions based on intuition and emotion.

Democratic governors, concerned about alienating their base, all too frequently avoided making hard decisions in the face of pressure from local politicians and activists — the same ones who had presided over the collapse of the system in the first place, and the same ones who to this day insist on turning serious discussion about positive change for children into a poisonous political circus in which the interests of children are often subordinated to adult concerns.

«All too often, we reduce students to their experiences and make decisions about their capabilities based on those experiences.

Simply put, it's a history of people other than teachers making policy decisions often based on what sounds good at the time.

Although it may seem simpler in the short run to make teacher decisions based largely on a single set of student scores, this approach has thus far produced more heat than light in analyses of teaching, often creating greater confusion where more clarity is needed.

These inherent «gut - feelings» are often our most reliable tool when making decisions based solely on appearance.

Overwhelmingly, respondents said they make their buying decisions based on recommendations from friends, from Facebook interactions, and from emails from the company, with emails actually ranking higher than Facebook for influencing purchasing; online ads, which are often touted as an annoyance, also were perceived as more influential than Facebook by the respondents.

But you often have to make decisions on the basis of missing or misleading information — snake oil flows fast and deep throughout the publishing industry.

Unfortunately, too often first - time authors make decisions based on personal preference or to be provocative.

Making literary decisions based on good narrative principles is often legitimate — you are, after all, writers.

We make our purchase decision on a book by book basis, using a variety of factors, but quite often price is the deciding one.

Readers will often make purchasing decisions based upon the strength of a post and it's rare for an author to make it into the spotlight on the strength of a book alone.

There's evidence that many people make decisions based on rule - of - thumb shortcuts that often hurt their own self - interest (i.e., performance).

Without such a process investors often make damaging decisions based on false overconfidence or panic due to short - term market fluctuations.

Too often you hear investors making very bad decisions based on this use of YOC.

Lenders may make a credit card or auto loan decision based on a single agency's score, although others such as mortgage lenders often will look at all three scores.

If the fund's name includes the term, it means the fund's managers or sponsors feel they can enhance returns and / or reduce the risks of their funds by switching back and forth among stocks, bonds and cash equivalents, often using a so - called «black box,» a computer program that makes trading decisions based on a pre-selected set of rules for interpreting financial statistics.

It is safe to say that Franklin Templeton makes investment decisions based on short - term outlooks, which means they trade quite often.

Asset allocation managers often use a so - called «black box,» a computer program that makes trading decisions based on a pre-selected set of rules for interpreting financial statistics.

But if you base your investing decisions on the pronouncements of the chattering class, you'll spend a lot of time spinning your wheels and making often needless and potentially costly moves that will likely detract rather than add to your portfolio's performance.

Investors who regularly make investment decisions based on raw short - term returns will generally sabotage their long - term investment results, because short - term returns are unreliable (and often contrary) indicators of subsequent performance.

In the beginning of my investing career, I often made impulsive investment decisions that turned out poorly, mostly based on my inability to separate the wheat from the chaff among all of this data.