Sentences with phrase «on flawed modeling»

Some were based on flawed models.

The letter calls on the EPA to generate new data about the cleanup's effectiveness conducted by independent scientists instead of basing its decision on data from GE scientists who relied on flawed models.

Not exact matches

Neuroscience can provide useful insights — such as why economists believe and act on the basis of narrow and sometimes flawed models.»

If RelSci's model of reality has a crippling flaw, it's in encouraging users to assume that the name on the door is the one with all the juice.

Buffalo Wild Wings said Marcato's belief that the company should move to a franchise model is based on flawed assumptions.

One of the greatest flaws in the annual performance review model is that it only focuses on major achievements — closing a big deal, completing a major project, etc..

Examine your business model for any major flaws or weaknesses or flat out ask the rejecter why he or she passed on your project.

Matthew Williams, a Cardiff University researcher on computational criminology, told Mic last year that without relying on existing police models to inform them, machines alone will often make flawed deliberations.

YouTube's business model, based on selling ads that run alongside videos being viewed, is either premature or basically flawed, Haven says.

I believe strongly in the need to go through the exercise of building a financial model (can focus mind and expose hidden assumptions and flaws), and agree that the focus should not be on formal financial documents or even on the resulting numbers themselves (that is, until you are up and running and have real numbers).

If the model is flawed (and there's no guarantee that it is or isn't flawed either way) then a new model needs to be developed in order to move on.

The possibility that such items may have always been on the male list even if historically not acted upon with sufficient vigor may be the single greatest potential flaw in George's otherwise powerful model.

And there is an obvious fatal flaw to this in any event; if say 5 teams embark on this allegedly «risk - free» business model and spend, spend, spend then pretty much by definition 4 of them come unstuck every year because only one team can buy the PL.

While we loved the lean - to - steer mechanism on other models, we found it too complicated for the 2 year - olds who are this scooter's intended users: they just couldn't get the hand of shifting their bodies in order to turn the scooter, even though their older siblings could master the technique easily, demonstrating that the difficulty was not caused by a flaw in the scooter but by the motor skills of young toddlers.

I'm not asking about the ethics involved, my question is specifically focused on whether or not this economic model has any major foreseeable systematic flaws, and if so, what are they?

Obamacare is in trouble because it was based on a flawed economic model, as the skyrocketing premiums indicate.

Some climate change deniers have taken encouragement from the pause, saying they show warming predictions are flawed, but Mann, a co-author on the study, notes that «there have been various explanations for why [the slowdown is happening], none of which involve climate models being fundamentally wrong.»

It is the central theme of The Death of Economics that the simple model of perfect competition which lies at the heart of much standard economic teaching is seriously flawed, and that policies based on it will be erroneous.

In summary the projections of the IPCC — Met office models and all the impact studies (especially the Stern report) which derive from them are based on specifically structurally flawed and inherently useless models.They deserve no place in any serious discussion of future climate trends and represent an enormous waste of time and money.As a basis for public policy their forecasts are grossly in error and therefore worse than useless.For further discussion and an estimate of the coming cooling see http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com

Results: The complex models scientists rely on to determine weather and potential climate changes have a hidden flaw.

The paper prompted a MailOnline headline of, «Projections of global drought and flood may be flawed», while the Australian followed suit with, «Climate model projections on rain and drought wrong, study says».

However, Guth's simple and elegant model was flawed: as he himself recognized, it would lead to gross inhomogeneities in the distribution of matter on large scales.

The problem is many people base their diet on the flawed paradigm, thinking it can be anything but a theoretical model, that barely makes sense on paper, let alone in reality.

... An the same is for designers: these vips are not all skinny models, they have curves and maybe flaws and not every kind of «artistic expression» could look good on them.

But in October 2015, two years after launch, The RealReal ended its licensing agreement with The RealReal Japan, shuttering the venture and pointing to a potential flaw in the company's business model, which focused on facilitating transactions between buyers and sellers based in Japan, a market that is already well served, especially in densely - populated areas like the Kantō region, which includes Tokyo, rather than between Japanese vintage sellers and international buyers, like Farfetch.

In fact, I would go as far as saying the only noticeable flaws that appear are those involved in effects shots such as when the professor's model T is seen flying around Washington, D.C. Overall, though, the video presentation is crisper than anything that is available on VHS or Laserdisc.

The current delivery model that has been in place essentially unaltered for over eighty years is flawed because, in spite of all the good work done on standards and accountability in recent years, the system remains primarily «input» and compliance driven rather than «output» and performance driven.

As part of NEA's work to counter flawed, regressive evaluation systems and implement the policy statement, NEA developed the toolkit on Association - led evaluation and accountability reforms — which contains model contract language, guiding principles, and real - world examples that can be used by education organizations to develop evaluation and accountability systems.

This high level of imprecision would explain why teachers like Sheri Lederman of Long Island, who is apparently a terrific fourth grade educator based on all kinds of data besides her most recent VAM scores, received an «ineffective» rating based on this flawed growth model (see prior posts here and here).

Numerous models have been developed to evaluate teachers (and administrators) without relying on flawed standardized test results.

The video featured here, as well as on this blog here, features Dr. Edward Haertel — National Academy of Education member and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University — talking about «The Flaws of Using Value - Added Models for Teacher Assessment.»

As we got behind the wheel of these fresh models, we couldn't help but notice how they capitalize on the flaws we'd already noticed in the one - year - old Sportage.

It seems to be improving bit by bit as we try it in different models, but it's still a flawed system to use once on the move.

On the pricing issue, I think Bransford is right as far as traditional publishing goes - but this is one of the flaws (or perhaps the only one) with traditional publishing as a business model.

The narrative that Oyster was chasing a market that didn't exist, with an offer that was too thin, and based on a business model that was fundamentally flawed is now well established, and in burning through millions of dollars of investor cash in search of digital nirvana, the company hardly helped itself.

I have Kindles, Nooks, and a Kobo Aura, but despite those previous models of Nooks and Kindles to be far more responsive and fluid, especially with PDF files, I jumped on the Kobo and took on the flaws over the other brands because of the flush screen and sd card expansion which the Nook lost, now there isn't any reason to remain with Kobo anymore.

This model has some inherent flaws, according primarily to the comments left on the original article from Calvin Reid that appeared this week on Publisher's Weekly's website, namely that agents and publishers hardly need to pay for queries from authors.

In any case, the previous model, Onyx BOOX T68, was terribly reviewed on Amazon, with several users complaining about boot - loop issues, see e.g., the review headlined «T68 is severely flawed.»

Anyone who did not like the Touch Cover or the Type Cover on Microsoft's Surface models might be pleased with Asus» keyboard for Transformer Book T100, however, despite being evidently better, it still includes many practical flaws.

The rating agencies are flawed but are mostly honest dealers who used bad models on structured credit, because no one knew better.

Because of their flawed model for understanding monetary policy, they ignored asset inflation, and patted themselves on the back for the lack of goods price inflation.

And any rebuttals on Nicholas Nassim Taleb's arguments regarding the fallibility and fundamental flaws in this and other models used in the markets?

I think it's a mistake to hang your equity bullishness on the flawed Fed model, comparing bond yields to stocks.

I recently engaged in a good back - and - forth with the owner of the Monevator blog both on substantive and procedural matters relating to my effort to open the internet to honest posting on the flaws of the Passive Investing model and to replace that model with the Rational Model of understanding how stock investing wmodel and to replace that model with the Rational Model of understanding how stock investing wmodel with the Rational Model of understanding how stock investing wModel of understanding how stock investing works.

We need to get political thought leaders involved in the effort to open the internet to honest posting on the flaws in Buy - and - Hold and on what we need to do to make the transition to the Rational Model.

There are some flaws to this approach as many cats that like to use the flushing model will perch on the rim, something that is no longer possible when converting this model into a den - style latrine.

The lingering complaint is DICE and EA's insistence on retaining a highly lucrative but flawed DLC model.

Closer inspection reveals that the perfect images contain flaws and aberrations which would usually be removed in production or postproduction, such as a model's dirty feet or a bruise on a ripe apple.

This is based on one model, and that model has flaws (especially its temperature sensitivity that seems too great (David Galbraith's work), and its rainfall that seems to low (our PNAS paper PDF).

The point, again, is that the U.S. can use abundant domestic coal or repeat the flawed oil model and rely on global gas imports.»