Statisticians define an outlier as an observation point that is distant from
other observations in a statistical analysis.
The good people of HowMuch.net, a cost comparison website, also make
other observations in their article associated with the video here.
Not exact matches
Investors considering it should still do their homework and use it
in tandem with
other fundamental market
observations.
«Cal / OSHA's regulations define a serious injury or illness as one that requires employee hospitalization for more than 24 hours for
other than medical
observation, or
in which a part of the body is lost or permanent disfigurement occurs.»
We all have little voices
in our heads - some more than
others, based on my very unscientific
observations of humans over the years.
The researchers»
observations of the physicians» lunchtime patterns confirmed what many employees experience
in other industries.
Move your
observation up a notch to see if and when that person repeats the same behavior with
others in your group.
But keeping these principles
in mind as you build your powers of
observation will greatly enhance your ability to read
others, understand their thinking, and communicate effectively.
Our findings are
in accordance with some
observations from previous studies showing a positive association between long working hours and depression [12] but contrast with
other reports of null findings [12]--[14].
Like review sites
in other sectors, Whitecoat gives consumers the ability to rate their experiences with a variety of medical practitioners, but currently this is limited to
observations on a doctor's manner or listening skills.
And so, his
observation, and this is looking at real data about retirees, is that the early retiree years, so just after you retire at 65 or whenever that might be, tend to be the higher spending years
in many retirees» plans; and that is because maybe they have pent up demand to do stuff with their money — whether it's travel or
other leisure activities.
Another
observation would be that some wanted to make their mark and made millions
in the process, while
others wanted to make millions and made their mark
in the process.
My
other observation is the Woodford Equity Income fund — a rare active fund
in my portfolio -, has done incredibly well and behaved more like a bond fund as the main markets have tanked over the last year.
In these and
other analyses based solely on referrer information, Twitter performs surprisingly poorly relative to expectations many of us have based on our own
observations of the volume of link sharing on Twitter.
excerpt: «My Indo - American friend made a few
other observations about the coverage that we're seeing, which is that he's not actually being treated poorly over there, and it's more that certain politicians and business leaders don't want to be associated with members of the Indian Cabinet, which is controversial
in large swaths of Indian society.
Indeed,
in my
observation, those priorities are ingrained
in the cultures of both the Reserve Bank and the Treasury (and of their counterparts
in most
other countries).
I would make one
other observation that I think is important here, and that is that we believe it is very important to keep
in mind the level of interest rates, not just their changes.
What can we learn from the adaptive strategies of
other religious minorities (a particularly interesting
observation in Dreher's posting came from an Orthodox Jew)?
On the
other hand, there's power
in learning from careful
observations of the world, when we can understand God through his creation and the work of his creation without having to adapt our belief system
in order to accommodate the diversity of creativity
in storytelling and entertainment.
Your animus toward Hawkins is presumably due to one of his
other observations — that there is no reason to believe
in any god, much less the Judeo - Christian god.
The reader is encouraged to take that seriously, to weigh the statements
in this book against research and
observations on the knowable world, and to consider them
in relation to the thousands of
other religions from throughout history that also profess with absolute certainty to be the one «Truth.»
We find that the Romans owed... the conquest of the world to no
other cause than continual military training, exact
observation of discipline
in their camps and unwearied cultivation of the
other arts of war.»
It does this, not by guess work, and certainly not by indulging personal preference or caprice, but by employing scientific methods of
observation, analysis, hypothesis and verification, which are well tested
in other fields of study.
Wolfhart Pannenberg concluded his incisive overview of the period with the
observation that one must «spare the Christian doctrine of God from the gap between the incomprehensible essence and the historical action of God, by virtue of which each threatens to make the
other impossible,» and went on to state that «
in the recasting of the philosophical concept of God by early Christian theology considerable remnants were left out, which have become a burden
in the history of Christian thought.»
Second, it is my
observation that advocates of the theology of nature are appreciatively open to
other «theologies of»
in a way that these
others are often not open to one another and certainly not to the theology of nature.
Of course these are false contradictions, but a case can be made to support the
observation that
in the aftermath of Vatican II the Church was driven by competing factions, each emphasing an aspect of Christian formation at the expense of
others.
Only
in rational
observation of reality,
observation that
others through their own senses can replicate, can reliable indication of the nature of the world be found.
That you are so ready to call millions of
other Christians not Christians (and I'm sure
in many cases — vice versa) only supports the
observation by Jefferson I quoted above.
I was using the news headlines (and
other similar resources, such as charity reports and the like) to make the valid
observation that human evil is universal
in its effect and nature.
We are the ones that carefully listen to the arguments of «God's character» based on the Bible, vs His / Her character based on
observations of creation, the «wisdom that cries out
in the marketplace or among the elders», or the insights from
other religions.
The illusion that the now is either so insignificant and commonplace as to be unworthy of study, or that it is so well known anyhow — without analysis, critical reflection, or even systematic
observation — as to be beneath serious notice, has become all too characteristic of a theological tradition that knows perfectly well that we can not understand either God's grace or man's sinfulness without
in some fundamental sense understanding the
other first.
I'll even offer
observations - humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus and bacteria, clone animals, and attempt to create new animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more intelligent creature might have done the same thing and created life on earth
in the same fashion while at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of
other life existing
in this universe - talk about being dumbed down and arrogant.
This is an important
observation, but one that is somewhat deficient
in providing positive information about the status of the two theologies with respect to each
other.
Ethnographic descriptions and anthropological
observations of the 19th century highlighted the fact that Malayarayans were different from
other hill tribes of Travancore on many counts.3 The Travancore Census Report (1901) describes Malayarayans as «a class of hill tribes, who are little more civilised than the Mannans, and have fixed abodes
in the slopes of high mountain ranges.
«Congress should not establish a religion and enforce the legal
observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God
in any manner contary to their conscience, or that one sect might obtain a pre-eminence, or two combined together, and establish a religion to which they would compel
others to conform.»
In an empirical
observation of human activity and life, a la Hobbes, desire seems to know no end
other than death.
If their elders remain aloof from civic affairs, at most engaging
in detached
observation and criticism of the politicians, it is hardly cause for wonder that the young should learn to leave the decisions of state to
others and thus prepare the way for the loss of their liberties.
In Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science, the distinction between theory and
observation is less absolute than for these
other authors.
In other scientific disciplines, the road of progress has been the road of sensuous
observation with its implicit assumption that the primary and determinative reality is what is sensuously given.
But there is one
other facet that needs to be synthesised with this if we are to be able to refound Christian culture: the fact (and the Judaeo - Christian revelation) that my very power of intelligent
observation is
in the image of God's Mind.
Thus, despite the fact that Wieman and
others of similar persuasion found elements of Whitehead's philosophy congenial, and despite the fact that many
others saw Wieman as a Whiteheadian,
in retrospect one must conclude that Whitehead's influence on Wieman was very partial and that the influence of John Dewey, with a resultant emphasis on empirical
observation and verification, was much more formative for Wieman's distinctively empirical and pragmatic theology.
Where depth and complexity are taken seriously,
in speaking of history as
in speaking of physical realities, something
other than appeal to logic, or even to the claims of
observation, is involved.
We can argue for collapsing
observation / prediction and reality
in certain domains and not
in others.
These essays are crucial for any assessment of MacIntyre's position: Arguments and
observations he makes
in his books were often first developed
in articles, and defended later
in other articles, not widely available.
But Greek science, though well developed
in a few areas, never got very far
in others,
in part because of lack of concern for detailed
observation of the world.
Nervously, I reminded him (Professor Albritton also taught Aristotle) that, based upon a rudimentary (and now recognized to be false) empirical
observation, Aristotle and Aquinas thought that the stars
in the firmament were unchangeable, permanent, and, thus
in a special sense, «necessary beings,» different from all
other changeable substances they had observed.
Beyond this, Gutiérrez's
observation, along with converging insights of
other liberation theologians, has led me to realize that the ideology involved
in the traditional formulations of faith's claims is as much a problem as the mythology they involve
in establishing their credibility to contemporary men and women.
While certain themes had spelled themselves out
in the course of the
observations,
others became apparent only after all the notes were analyzed.
Indeed, the philosophers have no
other proof than the
observation of the occurrence of the burning, when there is contact with fire, but
observation proves only a simultaneity, not a causation, and,
in reality, there is no
other cause but God.»
The constitution has been described as encouraging a shift from deductive to inductive methodology,
in other words one based upon a developing understanding and
observation of human nature.