Sentences with phrase «only measure of value»

This information tends to reinforce many participant's (erroneous) view of asset balance as the only measure of value.

Not exact matches

The measure of any credit card's value can only be obtained by comparing it to other available options.

That's why we hold over 200 individual investment positions in Strategic Growth, why we diversify across industries, why I left complete put option coverage underneath the Fund's portfolio even in response to a favorable shift in our measures of market action two weeks ago (now neutral), why the dollar value of our shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, and why even in the most favorable conditions, the Fund can establish leverage only by investing a small percentage of assets in call options (never on margin).

But I suppose the value of one's mental state may depend on prayer & belief, how can that be measured I guess... (Though I suspect, in large part, it is only needed, because it is believed to be necessary to begin with O.o),

He adds himself to the world as the vision of ideal possibility, from which every new occasion takes its rise, thereby ensuring a measure of order and value in a situation that could otherwise be only chaotic and indeed could achieve no actuality at all.

Which leads to the necessity of codes, rules, regulations, laws, mores, taboos and expectations, because it is only when someone measures up to something or doesn't measure up to something that it can be determined where they are on the value line.

Thus it comes about that for Whitehead the attraction between two given bodies, which measures the value of G, is a function not only of the masses and the separation involved, but also of the prior geometry.

It is only attributed to beings which because of their value are considered invaluable, that is, without the possibility of measure.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course

Plenty of «good» schools by other measures, however, are only fair by a value added measure.

But traditional methods that rely on measuring how far small masses are pulled by the gravitational force of larger masses nearby only provide relatively rough estimates of its value.

Better understanding the cost of measures would not only inform decisions about which measures to use, but also guide future development of high - value measures that maximize benefit while optimizing use of finite quality measurement resources.

Serum creatinine is measured very frequently among veterans, but an abnormal value would only diagnose stage 3 and above of chronic kidney disease.

Dear Dr. Greger: Is antioxidant power THE ONLY measure of antioxidants, so that the higher the ORAC value the better and variety of antioxidants not so critical??

It's amusing enough, and the players provide guaranteed entertainment value (if only out of curiosity to see how they'll measure up).

Nevertheless, the courses seem to raise students» scores on the only two attitudes that were measured: confidence in government and belief in the value of elections.

Those who want to reward teachers on the basis of measured performance should consider whether it is worth the trouble and expense to implement value - added assessment if the only outcome is to reward small numbers of teachers.

This is telling, and it brings us back to the two premises (out of three) that guide the MET project — that value - added measures should be included in evaluations, and that other measures should only be included if they are predictive of students» test score growth.

[22] To put this in perspective, one study finds that only 28 to 50 percent of teachers who were ranked in the top fifth on value - added measures one year were still ranked in the top fifth in the subsequent year, and 4 to 15 percent of teachers switched from the top fifth to the bottom fifth.

She also notes that if her system contradicts teachers» value - added scores, this too should «raise red flags» about the quality of the teacher, although she does not (in this article) pay any respect or regard for the issues not only inherent in value - added measures but also her observational system.

One major vendor of value - added measures (i.e., SAS as in SAS - EVAAS) long has held that the tests need only to have 1) sufficient «stretch» in the scales «to ensure that progress could be measured for low - and high achieving students», 2) that «the test is highly related to the academic standards,» and 3) «the scales are sufficiently reliable from one year to the next» (see, for example, here).

As Harvard professor Dan Koretz, who studies educational measurement, points out, «Even a very good test measures only a modest proportion of what we value.»

Value - added methodology is being applied to the evaluation of teachers in tested grades and subjects, but the vast majority of the research on value - added measures focuses on elementary schools Value - added methodology is being applied to the evaluation of teachers in tested grades and subjects, but the vast majority of the research on value - added measures focuses on elementary schools value - added measures focuses on elementary schools only.

When schools understand the causes of inconsistency in value - added measures, they not only learn about the appropriate use of these measures, they also learn how they can best help their teachers improve.

Thus, value - added measures of improvement — particularly those based only on data from the beginning and end of a single year — will be very imprecise.

The null results from most studies contrast with some recent evidence suggesting that programs that combine value - added with other measures of performance, or which use only other measures, can lead to improvement.

We still have only a limited understanding of how best to use value - added measures in combination with other measures as tools for improvement.

[13] In other words, value - added, along with other measures, [14] can help screen the performance of not only teachers, but observers as well.

«[T] he timing of value - added measures — that they arrive only once a year and during the middle of the school year when it is hard to adjust teaching assignments — is a real concern among teachers and principals alike.»

If that was only true of the school in which he gave his speech — CASSA received a «D» on its Performance Index and an «F» in value - added, a growth measure over a school year.

The AFT and the state education department have only agreed that classroom observations — which, even under the best of circumstances, are far less reliable in measuring student performance than either value - added analysis of student test score performance or even surveys of students — should be the «majority» element in the new evaluation system.

In contrast to the traditional methods of measuring school effectiveness (including the adequate yearly progress system set up under NCLB), value - added models do not look only at current levels of student achievement.

In New York, value - added measures — for those teachers whose students take standardized tests — will only make up 25 percent of their rating.

Even the best test will measure only a limited set of skills, and value - added that is based on that test will evaluate teachers only on those skills.

Such a study might require multiple years of value - added measures to obtain accurate values using only students with disabilities because many classes have few such students.

So, I would just ask that people look at the consistent changes that have been made, look at the values of Chancellor Carranza, who absolutely does not want to see a focus on high stakes testing — only believes testing is one of many measure we use toevaluate and to act.

In addition to debate over their technical merit, one generally agreed - upon and significant drawback of value - added measures is that they can only apply to teachers in tested grades and subjects.

Most studies that have fueled alarm over the attrition and mobility rates of high - quality teachers have relied on proxy indicators of teacher quality, which recent research finds to be only weakly correlated with value - added measures of teachers» performance.

As background, Randi wrote the foreword to the only academic book that has been released on VAMs to date — Value - Added Measures in Education — written by now Tulane Associate Professor of Economics, Douglas Harris.

Loan - to - value ratio (LTV) is another commonly used measure of the same figure, only in reverse: a 20 % down payment results in a mortgage with an LTV ratio of 80 %.

There is the tangible (a cheap set of assets, easily measured), and the intangible — artistic expression, whether in painting, music, acting, etc. (where values are not only relative, but contradictory — except perhaps for Keynes» beauty contest).

Those kinds of things are about the only ways to measure a currency's change in «value to itself» because a currency is basically only worth what one can buy with it.

Since those have no underlying stocks to speak of that create any meaningful measure of net asset value, the market tacitly acknowledges Berkshire must be valued only by its ability to create income.

Only two measures, price - to - sales (P / S) and P / B rarely have a negative denominator, and book value is readily available on essentially all companies through decades of history.

The measure of any credit card's value can only be obtained by comparing it to other available options.

In the top three size quintiles, accounting for about 94 % of total market value, EM is a highly significant measure of relative value, whereas BE / ME is insignificant and size is only weakly significant.

This does not necessarily argue against active management; it only suggests that active managers should be measured against the correct benchmark, which, in the case of a value investor, is a passive index of value stocks.

The portfolio of 20 value stocks I selected advanced 20.9 % since the original article came out in May 2010, while the S&P 500 (as measured by the SPY exchange - traded fund) only gained 16.5 %.