Sentences with phrase «points above the average in»

Assoc. Prof. Posso found that students «who play online video games every day score 15 points above the average in maths and 17 points above the average in science».

Prima students performed 26 percentage points above the average in math.

[7] Compared to peer cities, D.C.'s graduation rate was 1 percentage point above the average in 2010 - 11 but grew at a lower rate to be 2 percentage points below the average as of 2014 - 15.

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And as the EIA points out, this brief wholesale price drop hasn't been matched by overall drops in California's consumer electric rates, which remain well above average.

The above - referenced editorial also points out that 48 % of state and local revenues collected in N.J. come from property taxes, which is off - the - charts high: «No other state derives more than 41 percent of its revenue from that source; the U.S. average is 33.1 percent.»

In the article, Irving says that 18 % of the technical jobs at GoDaddy are held by women — though he notes that that figure puts the company just 1 percentage point above the average for Silicon Valley.

Belgium, in particular, has 26 years with debt - to - GDP above 90 percent, with an average growth rate of 2.6 percent (though this is only counted as one total point due to the weighting above).

Jonathan Krinsky, chief market technician at MKM Partners, pointed out in a note Thursday that less than 60 percent of stocks in the Russell 3000 are trading above their 200 - day moving average, a key long - term technical metric.

Case in point is recent IPO Acacia Communications ($ ACIA), which broke out on the week of July 12 to close 40 % above the first print of its 10 - week moving average.

He points to the sector's Tier 1 capital ratio of 15 %, in line with the EU average and well above the 4.5 % minimum.

The averages above do hide a significant amount of variation in returns, and the direction of equity valuations at any given point in time also matters.

As explained in the video, the key point in buying the pullback of a stock that has already broken out is to look for a retracement to the 10 - day moving average, then buy the first move above that that day's high.

The bank ranked a dozen points above the average score in JD Power's 2017 survey of consumer satisfaction among US mortgage servicers.

He bragged about it in his speech to Congress on Tuesday night, and then got more to the point on Wednesday, when the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 21,000 for the first time.

With the exception of 1986, and the 1987, 1990 and 2009 lows, which were moderately but not severely below longer - term historical norms, every point in this chart is «above average» from the standpoint the longer historical record.

PICTURED ABOVE AND BELOW: The City of Seattle is averaging about 750 new townhome and single - family home sales per year, but is witness to a diminishing number of sales at price points below $ 750,000, with no such new home sales occuring in 2018 below $ 500,000 — not surprisingly, the median home prices are rising.

Accordingly, the Bank late last year lifted the cash rate to the point that resulted in most lending rates in the economy being a little above average.

[1] The participation rate increased to be 63 3/4 per cent in the December quarter, which is 1/4 percentage point above its recent average levels.

This percentage is above the 5 - year average of 64 %, but below the percentage at this same point in time for Q4 2013 (86 %).

In early August, yields on 10 - year bonds were around 75 basis points above the cash rate, slightly less than the average differential since the mid 1990s (Graph 66).

On either measure of real cash rates shown here, they are well below the average of the second half of the 1980s; they have declined since their most recent peak in 1995, but remain above the low point reached in 1993/94.

The unemployment rate has fallen less in NSW than in the smaller states, and it is now above the national average for the first time since the early 1990s, whereas Queensland's unemployment rate has fallen almost 2 percentage points to be the lowest across all states.

He proposed a new indictment of priestly celibacy, pointing out that by the year 2000 «more than one million» «above - average» Catholics will not have existed because the forty thousand «on average, above average» priests living in 1900 could not marry and have children.

Now Britain wobbles upward with the other advanced industrial countries in a band plus or minus a few percentage points from the average, excepting the big, rich nation of churchgoers, which persists at 30 percent above the rest.

To be eligible for the fellowship, individuals must have to have junior or senior status, a grade point average of 3.0 or above and be a student in the Johnson & Wales School of Hospitality.

He averaged 10.9 points, 2.5 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.4 threes in 24.9 minutes of action over 36 games, but the statistics don't begin to tell the whole story — he's a fantastic shooter / scorer whose reach and athleticism are above average for his size.

CLOVIS WEST KEYS TO VICTORY: Against top teams the Golden Eagles have been near or above their 74.1 points per game scoring average, and if they can score at least 70 points and play solid team ball with the kind of defense they have shown — except in the second game against Centennial - Las Vegas when they lost 70 - 46 at the MLK in Stockton — coach Craig Campbell and his girls should win again just like they did in a 70 - 67 overtime victory over Poly at the Nike TOC.

This year the next batters up in such situations are hitting 45 points above their average and are driving in 4 1/2 times more runs than they normally do.

In fact, last season the rangy forward averaged a career - high 32.0 points per game — 4.6 ppg above his closest competitor (Carmelo Anthony) and his career average.

Because he'd like convert well above his 40 % average on those, which would result in more points.

The requirement for all - caps changed at some point in Chen's career, and suddenly when he was an above - average pitcher, it was news.

Only two starters in it — Clayton Kershaw and Kenta Maeda — have been above - average to this point.

I expect Trout to move to one of the corner OF positions in the next few years, but obviously that depends on whether or not the Angels have an above - average defensive center fielder at some point.

Match - ups that have a higher game total (above 145 for the full forty minutes) will have on average less than 8 extra points scored in the second half.

One other point from the above article is definitely worth mentioning here: the Champions in the Premier League for the previous seven seasons averaged 66 % on this front (though Leicester went onto win the title with only 56 %, putting a slight dent in this), so Klopp's team have started 2016/17 very well indeed.

When weighted by the number of seats they have up for election, the average Remain vote in those councils that have elections on Thursday is as much as 52 %, some five points above the overall Remain vote in England in June 2016.

New York State's unemployment rate remained unchanged in August, hovering at 9.1 percent — one point above the national average.

Although the table above does not show it, there is very little difference between England and Wales in the pattern of change, with the exception of Labour who appear to have made little or no advance in Wales but were up on average 5 points in English constituencies.

«I'm above the average minority senator,» Mr. Espaillat said in an interview, pointing to statistics kept by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

More to the point, says the Empire Center, «School spending in New York [state] was driven primarily by instructional salaries and benefits — which, at $ 14,769 per pupil, were 114 percent above the national average of $ 6,903, the census data show.»

In fact, this study showed that all regions with above - average temperature are located near volcanic hot spots, which points to mantle plumes as the culprit for the excess volume of magma in these areaIn fact, this study showed that all regions with above - average temperature are located near volcanic hot spots, which points to mantle plumes as the culprit for the excess volume of magma in these areain these areas.

Let us note, however, that all the structures that have been discussed above are collinear structures: on the average (in time) all the atomic magnets pointing in one or the opposite direction are parallel to a single direction.

The researchers found that the average nonverbal IQ of the children significantly decreased 2.1 to 3.8 points below the average of the reference group (those with free T4 levels in the middle of the range) when the mothers» free T4 level was at or above the 89th percentile.

While a majority of the public sees scientific achievements in positive terms, the share saying U.S. scientific achievements are the best in the world or above average is down 11 points, from 65 % in 2009 to 54 % today.

Because of the topic I would add another red flag in regards to photos posted is the go to selfie photo taken from above with the camera held above the head pointing straight down, emphasizing the beasts push up pass her ears and just a straight down body shot with the goal of concealing body size giving her that illusion of having a thin or even average body type.

It's the first time in three years that one of the majors has averaged above 61 (the cutoff we use to indicate generally positive reviews from critics) for its annual release slate, and Disney's strong 2015 average score puts it 11 points higher than its nearest major competitor (Universal).

Slight shimmer is also an issue, though I should point out that the source print was in above - average shape for an HK import.

More recently, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) released new standards for teacher training programs: among them, each cohort of entrants should have a collective grade - point average (GPA) of 3.0 and college admission test scores above the national average by 2017 and in the top one - third by 2020.

In the book Outliers, Malcom Gladwell tells the story of a man who has an IQ that is well above average (it is 45 points higher than Albert Einstein's) but the man doesn't have any «grit.»

To measure the effect of being in the top 10 percent, the authors compared the grade point averages of students whose class rank was just above or just below the cutoff.