Sentences with phrase «pretty meaningless number»

However, the next time you brag that your cholesterol is nice and low — or lament that your number is in the mid-200s — know this: «Your total cholesterol is a pretty meaningless number,» says Maureen Mays, MD, a preventive cardiologist and lipid specialist at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.

Not exact matches

Inevitably that's led to a number of comparisons between the two, but trying do it through statistics alone is pretty much meaningless since they both raced in completely different eras.

The numbers you use here are pretty meaningless if not placed in the context of Paul's competitors.

Either way, without real numbers the statements are pretty meaningless.

Now imagine that there are various unknown sources of cooling and heat and that you are apportioning percentages to sources based on only the know subset of factors - the numbers transition to meaningless pretty quickly.

As pointed out here by Scott Greenfield on his Simple Justice blog, Gradeless appears to have found a way to monetize his massive following on Twitter through a service called Sponsored Tweets, which hooks «Tweeters» like Gradeless up with advertisers who want to reach their supposedly vast audiences (although as discussed here, a person's numbers of Twitter followers can be a pretty meaningless figure).