Sentences with phrase «one's prior expectations»

On Tuesday, due to low sales in China, Yum slashed its yearly earnings per share estimate to mid-single-digit range, down from prior expectations of 6 to 10 percent growth.

If your students» prior expectations about your online course are confirmed in the post-adoption period, it is more likely that they become satisfied with your course and continue taking courses from you.

In a report published Thursday, Roth Capital Partners analyst Philip Shen discussed the Department of Commerce's final results of its administrative review of 2012 solar related tariffs in which duties came in «much worse than expected» at 30.6 percent versus prior expectations of...

The importance of viewing these works from a variety of angles is key, and with quiet contemplation, visitors can perceive the works as Judd had intended: without prior expectation (as he wrote in his canonical 1965 essay, Specific Objects).

Prior expectations of FOMC action have signaled much earlier action than what has actually happened.

Decades of research have confirmed the importance of «set and setting» — the prior expectations of users and the context of their experience.

They say that a mathematical expression known as Bayes» theorem — which quantifies how prior expectations can be combined with current evidence — may provide novel insights into pernicious mental problems that have

One consequence of this is «confirmation bias,» a strong tendency to automatically favor information that supports our prior expectations.

Middle school students are now expected to independently read and understand texts with Lexile scores between 925 and 1185L by the time they finish 8th grade (Nelson, Perfetti, Liben & Liben, 2012), which is notably higher than prior expectations (860 - 1010L)(CCSSI, 2010d).

They highlight the fact that the students bring their prior expectations about poetry to the learning experience.

This is called confirmation bias, the tendency to see what confirms an observer's prior expectations.

In journal entries at the end of the semester they indicated that, contrary to their prior expectations, the teacher implemented «a rigorous curriculum,» held «high expectations,» taught «in an integrated style,» and built «on the students» prior experiences.»

Management expects to pay a tax rate of 35 % on the $ 9.4 billion it receives versus prior expectations that the tax rate would be closer to 38 %.

«Contrary to our prior expectations,» explain the researchers, the «minimum number of feral cats known to be alive» increased — an average of 75 percent at one site and 211 percent at the other.

the trip, the condo, all things involved compared with any vacation ever... far exceeded any prior expectations we have ever had.

Our prior expectations are used to define what we pay attention to in the world around us, so completely dissolving those prior expectations that come along with experience will allow us to focus on different things within the game environment, and truly view the world through Senua's eyes.

I learned that the way things were done at that kind of professional level largely matched my prior expectations and suppositions; until you're an insider, you're never quite sure about what type of magic happens inside those studios.

Instead of involving a choice of whether to keep or discard an observation based upon a prior expectation, we hypothesize that this selection bias involves the «survival» of climate models from generation to generation, based upon their warming rate.

When the conclusions you reach vary so drastically with the prior, what it should be telling you is that most of your knowledge about the date is not coming from the radiocarbon data, which is pretty weak and uninformative evidence, it's coming from your prior expectations.

After all, according to the prior expectations of their model, if the NH is warming faster than the SH it seems unlikely there can be much difference in RF between the hemispheres.