Sentences with phrase «rule of thumb among»

A rule of thumb among those working with hardware and software systems is «In six months — no matter what system you have — its obsolete.»

«A rule of thumb among political junkies says that that the actual vote for a third - party candidate tends to be roughly half of what that candidate was getting in pre-election polls around Labor Day,» said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

A rule of thumb among biotechnology venture - capitalists is that half of published research can not be replicated.

Not exact matches

A general rule of thumb to remember is that diluted EPS will always be lower than basic EPS if the company generated a profit, because that profit has to be divided among more shares.

Thus, if that rule of thumb holds true (due to the normal profit / greed motive of humankind), then it follows that among the 120 followers, a number of those followers spoke two languages.

My personal rule of thumb for a weeknight dinner is, among other things, something that can be made in under half an hour.

I'm not asking for detailed math, but rules of thumb for average investors to follow, so that they could find a passive strategy that is among those strategies that would be more likely to meet their needs.

In today's world, beliefs vary because of the continuing use by the builders of our models of intuitive rules of thumb called «heuristics» in discrimination of the one correct inference from among the many inferences that are candidates for being made by the model.