Participants
reported high confidence levels throughout the study but expressed some concerns related to their local contexts.
Not exact matches
On the other hand, companies that do export actually
reported a
higher level of
confidence on the question of trade deals than non-exporters.
Contractors have
high confidence in the market's ability to provide new business for the next 12 months, up one point from the
level reported in Q4.
The December quarter ACCI Survey of Investor
Confidence, which also covers the non-farm sector,
reported a
high level of current and expected business conditions.
In addition, most business surveys
reported conditions that were at
high levels throughout 2004, while consumer
confidence has been close to record
levels.
The September quarter Rabobank survey suggests that farm equipment investment intentions, which are not covered in the Capex survey, remain at a
high level, despite a slight decline in
reported confidence in the farm sector.
The NAB survey of the non-farm sector, for example,
reported that business conditions and
confidence in the September quarter were at their
highest levels since 1994.
Parents who believe a school nurse is onsite 5 days a week
report higher levels of
confidence in the school's ability to handle health and safety situations.
Bilingual students also attain
higher levels of achievement on standardized tests in reading, writing, social studies, and math and
report higher levels of self -
confidence (Tochon, 2009).
Interestingly, middle school teachers
reported a
higher level of
confidence (n = 36, M = 3.92, SD = 0.841) than did
high school teachers (n = 75, M = 3.47, SD = 1.031), t (109) = 2.279, p < 0.05, d = 0.48.
In turn, these same teachers
report higher levels of job satisfaction and
confidence in their ability to teach and to motivate students, according to a 2013 -LSB-...]
As the Q3 2015
report at Nielsen Insights
reported, «Global consumer
confidence increased three index points in the third quarter to 99, the
highest level since 2006.
Many of these news
reports revolved around private research group The Conference Board's Consumer
Confidence Index, which had reached its
highest levels in eight months.
You could start with the National Research Council
report, which found «with a
high level of
confidence that global mean surface temperature was
higher during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period during the preceding four centuries».
Given that the policymakers have signed off the IPCC
reports themselves we must assume that they are persuaded that the
high level of
confidence is justified — certainly they claim that this is the case.
This exercise, while in principle is a good one, in practice only serves to highlight the absurdity of the «very
high confidence»
levels in this
report.
After all, if NOAA didn't have a pretty
high level of
confidence that their records were accurate to at least 10 millidegree precision, would they be
reporting that a four year old record was «smashed» by 20 millidegrees?
Such solecisms throughout the IPCC's assessment
reports (including the insertion, after the scientists had completed their final draft, of a table in which four decimal points had been right - shifted so as to multiply tenfold the observed contribution of ice - sheets and glaciers to sea -
level rise), combined with a heavy reliance upon computer models unskilled even in short - term projection, with initial values of key variables unmeasurable and unknown, with advancement of multiple, untestable, non-Popper-falsifiable theories, with a quantitative assignment of unduly
high statistical
confidence levels to non-quantitative statements that are ineluctably subject to very large uncertainties, and, above all, with the now - prolonged failure of TS to rise as predicted (Figures 1, 2), raise questions about the reliability and hence policy - relevance of the IPCC's central projections.
Well, the IPCC Working Group I Fourth Assessment
Report Summary for Policymakers says that they have «very
high confidence,» 90 % or more (see the image to the right for how the IPCC AR4 defines all the various
confidence levels), that human beings have heated up the planet since 1750 (Box TS.1 on page 22 - 23 of the describes the percent
confidence / likelihood indicated by the language).
Highest increases were noted for home visitors»
level of preparedness to serve families affected by IPV; their
confidence in knowing how to act when a client discloses IPV experience; their
confidence in screening participants; their awareness of the name of a staff person at the local domestic violence center who they could reach out to for help; and knowledge on notifying an IPV survivor prior to making a child abuse
report.
Couples who go through pre-engagement counseling
report a
higher level of
confidence and satisfaction with their relationship if and when they decide to take the next step toward marriage.
We hypothesized that the children of African - American parents who
reported more traditional authoritarian beliefs, maternal
confidence, and maternal warmth would display
higher levels of cognitive development and achievement at school entry.
Dissecting the January Modern Homebuyer Survey data further, what's particularly interesting is that more affluent American households — typically more confident in housing given their stronger purchasing power — are not
reporting the
highest housing
confidence levels among other income cohorts today: