Sentences with phrase «talk about assumptions»

Let's talk about your assumptions:

I don't know how you could trust various anecdotal accounts of crops etc, talk about assumptions!

However, its long been apperent that while climate models and econ models have similar levels of scientific validity, economists are far more willing to talk about assumptions their models make, when and why those assumptions might or might not hold, etc., than climate scientists.

To the extent that demographers talk about the assumptions underlying the UN medium variant, which now shows world population reaching 9 billion, by 2042, there's a growing consensus that the assumptions may prove too optimistic (i.e. population may grow more rapidly than projected).

Talk about assumptions and judgments and «rushing to judgment.»

Thanks for talking about assumptions, Anna, as many marketers are building buyer personas around these obvious characteristics of their buyers... attributes that anyone could guess and therefore have little value.

In an interview I read, Jack Whitten talked about the assumption of «illustrated imagery as conveying a narrative.»

Given that we're talking about an assumption of lives lost, you can already see the savings in human lives right there, especially since the tornado can miss the cars and take out the bus as well.

Not exact matches

«Be really clear about the assumptions you're making about the business you're going into, and check those assumptions as quickly as you can — whether it's building a prototype and testing it with people, or just talking to other people in the industry.

I have talked about this before: All economic and budget models are based on assumptions.

I mean the basic framework and assumptions we use to talk about the practice and profession of management, our underlying beliefs about what corporate leaders and managers are trying to achieve, and how they go about achieving it.

Chan prefers to talk about «reasonable assumptions that the future will be like the past.»

More on our fourth quarter assumptions in a few minutes let's talk first about this third quarter.

Yet, such assumptions are exactly how U.S. shale drilling is being talked about in the minds of non-geologists who want to hype stocks and use patriotic terms like «energy independence.»

Now, if you want to talk about religious theory, that's a different definition, as religious theory is based on belief and assumption and written statements that can not be verified or proven without having faith and belief.

The fact that you are not comfortable talking about it, however, does lead me to make some assumptions (but I don't think they're «fatal» ones).

I'd like to think that I know what I'm talking about, although I need to be vigilant about policing my assumptions and «beliefs».

So, your basing your claim on assumption that 1 Thessalonians where it talks about Paul stating about what happens to those of us who remain when Christ returns that one automatically concludes that Paul fully expected that event to happen in his lifetime, whereas 2 Thessalonians talks what has to happen before hand in order for Christ to return.

I am talking about truth, not assumption.

It occurred to me yesterday (as I was skillfully avoiding an encounter with a certain someone at the grocery store) that the most frustrating thing about being seen as an «outsider» is knowing that when people talk to you about faith, they approach the conversation with the assumption that you have nothing to contribute to it.

I am well aware that all of us make assumptions about people we talk to everyday, it's pretty much impossible to carry out a conversation otherwise.

Still, the context of this sentence becomes clearer when he talks about how the value - laden «paradigms and assumptions» of the social sciences and humanities have contributed to the problematic conditioning of our understanding of education.

Messing with the words, making catch phrases creates an enormous mess of lies, assumptions and myth — to the point that no one really knows what their talking about.

Christine, I think we both talked past one another when speaking about homophobia and assumptions.

Taylor wants not simply to show us how we think and talk about what matters, but to help us see what assumptions are behind that particular way of talking.

One can acknowledge that he is unacquainted with what Paul meant when he said «I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me», and at the same time have his individual existence broken open to fact by the assumption that the man knew what he was talking about, meant what he said, and lived out and died out the affirmation.

But you don't know until you start talking and asking I ask my students about their relationships (my assumption is that people are sleeping together) because no one else will and our sexuality has a huge impact on how we live and interact with each other and God.

I am convinced that a good deal of talk about prayer is vitiated by the assumption that God is an intolerant, indeed we might say an intolerable, tyrant who must be cajoled rather than addressed; and this is tied in with a picture of his nature or character that is fundamentally unchristian or subchristian, even if many Christian thinkers have fallen victim to it.

This final part of Griffin's argument for the process theodicy turns on an assumption that he appears to have borrowed by Hartshorne, viz., that the so - called «social view» of omnipotence is the only alternative to the monopolistic (and thus to the standard) view.9 The critique of the latter thus established the former as (in Griffin's words) «the only view that is coherent if one is talking about the power a being with the greatest conceivable amount of power could have over a created, i.e. an actual world» (GPE 269).

Many in America who make their livings talking about politics and morality live, like Nietzsche's last man, under the assumption that we can «be good without God,» as Glenn Tinder phrased it in the December 1989 issue of The Atlantic.

But that would make it impossible for us to talk about a causal relationship between a present effect and a past cause, under the assumption that the past cause is now no longer in existence.

Science should, and indeed does, talk about a real natural world, but we are arguing that the assumption that it is best described as matter, and in mechanistic terms, is incorrect.

Examples include the assumption that a male pupil will have, or be looking for, a girlfriend; or that a female parent, when talking about her partner, is referring to a male.

I am going to be making a fair few assumptions here about Arsenal Football Club and the much talked about situation of our manager and whether it will be Arsene Wenger in charge once again next season, so please bear with me and remember that there has been no official declaration one way or the other and surmising is all we have left.

(And not that your political views can't change, but it's almost like an assumption that we give it all up for talk about vacuum cleaners.)

At the time, I was just uncomfortable with her talking about my nipple activities in front of professional colleagues, but she also made the assumption that I was planning on nursing.

We need to talk about privilege and how it influences the media's assumptions about families living under the burden of poverty.

When we talk about «conscious parenting» on this site, we are working towards exploring and being open to our own denial and assumptions.

Hilarious that you made the assumption that I was only talking about one OB and not two.

This post hints at several complicated issues that probably each deserves its own post — the events or experiences that inspire us to become AP parents, the naive assumptions we often have about love being «all you need» to make a child's world right, the tragedy that can occur when children's emotional needs go unmet... All very important topics that we've all probably talked about many times with other parents and in our API support groups.

I'm from New York City, and when we talk about something like «Stop and Frisk», which is also based on the fundamental assumption that black and Latino men (who look a particular way) are therefore menacing and threatening, we understand it as a cross - racial problem.

@PeterDavidCarter - Poulsen I realize that you think you are making sense, but you are operating from so many assumptions that others don't share, and probably aren't even aware of — as in my case — that I have no idea what you are talking about.

While we can talk in the abstract about «weapons» and «war,» focusing only on the logic of the argument, we often fail to begin from the correct assumptions about how war is presently fought.

While this sounds low for the party's absolute core vote, remember that turnout at the last election was 62 %, so if all that 13 % always vote (a dubious assumption in itself) we are talking about roughly a fifth of actual voters.

Talk of the Sound has been reporting for more than a year on the out - of - control spending by the New Rochelle School District and warning that totally unrealistic assumptions about property assessments, state aid and one - time injections of stimulus funding.

Talk to people in Northern Ireland, and they are clear: the assumption was always that one day, all details held by the Electoral Commission about donations from 2014 onward would one day be published.

«You have to make a lot of assumptions about that planet to really start talking about whether it would experience «seasons» as we know them,» she says.

These women talked about doctors who made assumptions about their sexual promiscuity and inability to pay for services or support a child.

That assumption is certainly true if we're talking about dramatically raising testosterone levels through drug use.

People talk about animal models so this an animal model of human obesity is the idea, but the problem with the model is you never know how they differ from the real thing and you never know about what assumptions you're working under.