Sentences with phrase «rather than statistics»

Hypothesis I also has the advantage that it can be used to make a model based on physics, rather than statistics, that can at least explain past climate.

Not exact matches

The Labor Department said Tuesday it had revised the statistics for March to show 4.17 million job openings that month, rather than the 4.01 million the department previously reported.

You need to stick to your research and business plan Rather than getting bogged down by pages and pages of theoretical research and statistics, Rubin encourages entrepreneurs to go out and prove instead that «five people will buy what you want to make.»

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

GEM is unique in that it examines entrepreneurship from the perspective of the individual, rather than the company, which is what official statistics do.

The campaign encourages people to actually meet with migrants and listen to their stories, rather than treat them as statistics clouded by negative stereotypes.

The statistics are merely sets of data measured in a specific context and at least the person who posted them had the respect to allow us to make our own interpretation rather than inserting his own opinion which is what Buddha actually wanted people to do... not just accept things on blind faith but interpret for themselves and experience for themselves.

Of course not, because you'd prefer to remain ignorant / uneducated and base your conclusions on stereotypes rather than actually getting off of your butt to educate yourself by looking at the statistics around marijuana use.

I think context is important rather than throwing out stupid statistics which are completely meaningless.

That's what keeps him preferring Wilshere (and Arteta, Flamini, Giroud), because they're showing heart and work for the club rather than grant good statistics (= performances!).

He's focused only on props with high yardages with more than a 10 % difference rather than looking at statistics with low totals that are more volatile, such as quarterback rushing yards, touchdown passes, or receptions.

A separate set of statistics say that slightly under 49 % of Premier League games have more than 2.5 goals so you are looking at a finely - balanced bet, but since it covers a multitude of possible score lines is still worth considering rather than a correct score wager.

Well, for starters, when we pull back those offensive statistics, some troubling trends arise; trends that might suggest Roma's luck may run out sooner rather than later.

Rather than blandly regurgitating tired tales of Rickie Lambert's goalscoring prowess or Peter Whittingham's range of passing, perhaps it would be more useful to delve into some statistics to see how effective some of the best players...

We should all try to learn from Cubas good statistics in maternerity leave rather than trying to hide this by pointing out the areas where they do not score as well.

Rather than preach reform in the way parents and schools prepare students for higher education, Stanford and its fellow institutions could quickly improve student well being by basing admissions on finding the appropriate students rather than on generating statistics the school can use to promote its Rather than preach reform in the way parents and schools prepare students for higher education, Stanford and its fellow institutions could quickly improve student well being by basing admissions on finding the appropriate students rather than on generating statistics the school can use to promote its rather than on generating statistics the school can use to promote its brand.

The statistics that NHS England regularly gathers capture data from all women using NHS services, rather than from the periodic survey samples.

This paper offers a challenge to the BTSC from two perspectives: (1) the questionable validity of SIDS mortality and risk statistics, and (2) the BTSC as human experimentation rather than as confirmed preventive therapy.

I believe that the statistics also show that with a prolonged parental leave, more women do return to work, as it is a much easier thing to do when your baby is 12 months rather than 2.

The chancellor's desire for work that is «good quality and well - paid» echoes the recent Taylor review of the gig economy, which argued that full employment was not incompatible with all work being good work, and it was good to hear repeated focus on the nature of work, rather than just the employment statistics.

The population statistics of the United States show that living into old age is the exception rather than the rule:

The UK is now running a surplus of # 3.8 bn in its current budget - the money borrowed to fund day - to - day spending rather than long - term investment - according to the Office for National Statistics figures.

As Iain Duncan Smith has previously shown, members of this government often seem to believe that facts and statistics should be made to fit their arguments, rather than the other way around.

The methodology of the crime statistics changed significantly during that period, the BBC report suggested, because the alleged victim of the crime, rather than police officers, decided whether it should be recorded as a violent crime.

«I call on this administration today, talk about how we're going to bring problem - solving initiatives in our challenged communities, rather than talk about statistics that never trickle down to grandparents, to parents, to children who lose their loved ones on the streets of New York all too often,» he continued.

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Flynn tends to explain his ideas with charts and statistics rather than examples.

Because Kepler's stars were so far and so dim, some of its planet candidates were confirmed as actual planets only by statistics rather than by other telescopes.

The findings are dire, but they should inspire action rather than hopelessness, said Adrian Raftery, a professor of statistics and sociology at the University of Washington and author of the study on temperature forecasts.

This method, which has been around for years and is used in other computer game programs, essentially allows the system to use statistics as a shortcut to determine the best move, rather than playing out each and every possible outcome of a given move (which in Go would take forever).

In the absence of that premise, the goal of activists and interested parties to the bioethics debates should be to learn how best to educate the public, rather than to wield essentially meaningless statistics about existing attitudes.

Because these moderate extremes are by definition more common, and because the authors looked at global statistics rather than those for highly localized, rare events, the conclusions are extremely robust, said Peter Stott, leader of the Climate Monitoring and Attribution Team at the Met Office Hadley Centre, in the U.K. «I think this paper is very convincing,» said Stott, who was not involved in the research.

Poll: Men More Than Women Get Depressed After Breakup An article discusses poll results from Date.com... results that I found to be rather shocking statistics (I guess since I'm a guy).

The ladies are obviously rather use online dating sites, with a few statistics, indicating that more than seventy - five percent of women had a romance online.

The marriage statistics are 2 years newer than the other data but are close enough for us to do some rather simple comparisons.

Online dating has become the norm rather than a rarity, with statistics showing one in ten Americans have used an online dating site or mobile app.

Online dating has become the norm rather than a rarity, with statistics showing one in ten americans have used an online dating site or mobile app.

The UNESCO statistics for the number of years that a child can realistically expect to spend in tertiary education, rather than the legal requirement, show that students in all Western European countries spend 16 or 17 years in school, with countries in Central and Eastern Europe falling to 15 or 14 years.

In New York City, precincts were required to update their crime statistics on a weekly or daily basis, rather than on the monthly or quarterly basis that had traditionally been the norm.

With more school statistics than previously available, the site allows students, parents and community members to «evaluate schools based on their priorities, rather than simply by last year's test scores,» Baesler said.

The UCU lecturers» union has warned that the way of measuring teaching standards must be carefully considered, or else «manipulation of statistics may be the name of the game, rather than bolstering the student experience».

«While business skills are important, governing bodies also need parent representatives who are in touch with what's happening at the school and are able to offer support and challenge plans based on this experience, rather than purely on statistics.»

For example, CTBA tries to make its case using statistics from 2008 - 2009 rather than later — and less friendly — data.

Frontier and Rickabaugh use an extended analogy of a traffic safety director trying (ineffectively) various reforms to improve road safety statistics to demonstrate how many reform efforts only maintain the status quo or bring transactional change (in which incentives drive change), rather than the transformational change many schools need.

A Conservative Party spokesperson said: «It's disappointing that rather than acknowledging and celebrating the fact that the number and quality of teachers is at an all - time high, Lucy Powell has resorted to scaremongering with misleading statistics.

What young people need, Sullivan concludes, is teachers who «truly understand the environment that students come from — rather than just knowing the statistics that describe their lives.»

I haven't given up trying to find an agent to represent my novel to a big name publisher (I have queries and partials out) but when I allow myself to read agent statistics, I tend to question whether I ought to face those facts with my head rather than my heart.

Based on our current usage statistics, we find that most of our mobile users are using apps to access our ebook content rather than the mobile browser.

Unfortunately, I don't think Amazon has a good idea of the community of readers / writers, except as viewed through the abstract lens of statistics and used to sell more books right now rather than develop a long term plan which will encourage writing, reading and purchasing of books over the long run.

I would rather have someone with a deep understanding of the publishing industry and a modicum of statistical know - how than a Harvard Phd in statistics who doesn't understand the basics about the book biz.