Sentences with phrase «on hunches»

In other words, Enodo is a real estate investing platform that provides quantifiable data, meaning investors no longer have to rely on hunches alone.

He argues that everyone's so focused on Roberts» style they've overlooked the substance of the position: that it would essentially make arrests based on hunches constitutional.

Many of us still operate on hunches, wild ass guesses and assumptions instead of the data that's available.

He now feels that he has begun to exhaust the interesting variations possible with the Xs and + s. Although he preplans each work, he says his decisions are based more on hunches than on rational systems.

Instead of relying on hunches and predictions, they ran the numbers and found statistical evidence that stocks return more than bonds, small companies return more than larger companies and, furthermore, that undervalued — or value — companies return more than growth companies.

In the same way, if you invest based on hunches, intuition or forecasts, you're likely to fare as well as the poker player with the long - shot hand.

But investment decisions are often based on hunches at a cocktail party or what's read in a periodical.

Taking trades only based on hunches instead of careful application of a trading method is what I call emotion - based trading.

It was easy to be an investing legend when you were competing against a bunch of crusty yahoos who were committing money based on hunches, rumors and impulses.

That's what our jobs come down to: making bets based on hunches.

In general, teachers draw on hunches and do not use meaningful evidence / data to respond to students» needs and to drive instructional change

Unless North Carolina requires the same level of accountability and transparency from the private and religious schools that receive vouchers as it requires from other schools that receive public money, it is making education policy on hunches and ideology rather than real data.

Cartel Land is keen to show how information and rumors travel through the militia and the towns they come to control: photos of beheaded citizens pop up on smartphones; at impromptu public forums held in town squares, citizens both praise and condemn Mireles's usurping of federal authority; his soldiers, meanwhile, pick up suspected criminals on hunches, and won't relent without a confession.

After spending a decade experimenting and digging through research at medical libraries I finally refined my diet — not a perfect diet based on hunches, but anyone's perfect diet based on real science.

It was considered obscene for a man to enter the delivery room, yet they wrote the guidebooks, doling out advice based on hunches handed down over generations.

However, the «word on the street» kind of information seems to be opinions, based on hunches, based on knowing what people are like or how they are inclined.

But when it comes to spending that money, people are often content to rely on their hunches about what will make them happy.

Well you can, but to do so, the personas you develop need to be grounded in analytical data, not based on hunches.

You'll get different answers from different people across the team, because the idea of a «target buyer» is inconsistent, nebulous, and often based on hunches and feelings — not data.

He saw the business opportunity in offering analytics software that would help clients design products based on user behavior rather than on hunches.

Before you blow your money on hunches, however, you need to do your homework.

«Instead of spending months or even years on a hunch that may turn out to be wrong, you're able to answer your questions really quickly — to stop debating in the abstract, and start making progress.»

You got into this business on a hunch.

It is one of Canada's most stalwart businesses with a nearly century - old tried and tested business model, but Loblaw executive chair Galen Weston and the company's chief executive, Vicente Trius, are willing to go all in on a hunch that... Continue reading →

Rather than piling into distressed strategies based on a hunch about the cycle turning, LPs may be better off diversifying by type of manager.

Investors should never buy a stock based simply on a hunch that the company may someday be a buyout target.

The proposal developed in this book is based on a hunch that discussions of theological schooling and proposals to reform it might get further if some of the assumptions and many of the terms conventionally used in the discussions were changed.

All of a sudden, I was embarrassed to be sitting with my friend who honestly believed, on a hunch, that our mutual friend was not only gay but going to hell for it.

«Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled as I do, and might be happy to tag along with me on this search for clarity, for precision.»

He didn't just choose to sign the fullback from Dallas based on a hunch, or, one game he covered for television.

I predicted Arsenal may not make the top 4 last season based on my hunch.

Her jaundice ended up getting worse and, on a hunch, I began to give her formula.

You pack and repack your birth bag 3 times, check the on off switch on your pager / cell phone 5 times and go to bed with your clothes on... on a hunch... and you get called three hours later.

A team led by Charles Zuker of the University of California, San Diego, focused instead on fruit flies, acting on a hunch that the flies» touch - sensitive bristles might contain channels similar to those in sound - sensitive hair cells.

The China native was partly acting on a hunch that started when he was a graduate student at the Australia National University in the late 1980s.

This past year, Holum followed up on a hunch that the stones were part of the southern foundations of Herod's temple.

What are the risks of acting on a hunch that turns out to be totally off base?

On a hunch, Bradley Lang, Ph.D., the lead author of the study and a graduate student in Dr. Silver's lab, came up with the idea of designing a drug that would help axons regenerate without having to touch the healing spinal cord, as current treatments may require.

Although some people are horrified by the idea of cooking lobsters alive, or the practice of tearing claws from live crabs before tossing them back into the sea, such views are based on a hunch.

On a hunch, the researchers decided to radiocarbon date the bone anyway.

On the hunch that the enzyme might also be involved in pollen tube growth, the team searched for NADPH oxidase in pollen grains.

Tip: Don't make any drastic dietary changes based on a hunch.

Apparently I was one of those women who just gets «the feeling» when they are pregnant, because on a hunch I had decided to take a pregnancy test.

In fact, Sclafani told me that they had based their selection of foods on a hunch about what rats preferentially like, and so that's why they included cheese in the list.

I just tried something on a hunch - comfrey root powder face mask.

On a hunch in 2000, Whitlock began adding AOB to water and dousing himself daily.

It's possible that your decision to keep the relationship anonymous is based on a hunch that you can't logically explain.

So, rather than acting on a hunch, better focus on proven tactics that do work, and the content with greatest value.

Melody Kiersz, NYC Tawkify Matchmaker and Founder at Naked Wellness, circulated Mate - Seeking: The Science of Finding Your Best Partner out to the team last month on a hunch we would find it intriguing.

As Lincoln, Daniel Day - Lewis seems to wear the president's burden on his hunched frame, and he helps make the case that Lincoln's greatness comes from the skill with which he turned ideals into policy — by any means necessary.