Sentences with phrase «percent error factor»

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The technique can provide distances accurate to 20 percent, which a major advance on previous estimators that can have errors of a factor of two or more.

After tinkering with Einstein's general relativity equations to put in a new correction factor, he used the data from the experiment to calculate gravity's speed: 1.06 times that of light, give or take an error of 20 percent.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

More than 30,000 Americans are killed annually in car crashes, and human error is a factor in roughly 90 percent of them.

The problem was the error factor was ± 0.2 °C or ± 33 percent.

Of the human error factors at play, one of the most noteworthy is crew fatigue, which is responsible for about 25 percent of train accidents nationwide.

Did you know a massive eighty - four percent of executives recently polled by Office Team said it takes just one or two typographical errors in a resume to remove a candidate from consideration of a job; forty - seven percent said a single typo can be the deciding factor.