Sentences with phrase «tested assumptions»

We collected empirical studies that tested assumptions from social control theory as well as from attachment theory.

When we tested those assumptions, we found that several of them were invalid.

It's an art, but one that increasingly is based on rigorously tested assumptions, sophisticated mathematical models, computer algorithms, behavioral analysis and so on.

We find that within a 2,000 - y envelope there is a strong relationship between cumulative emissions and committed sea level under either of our tested assumptions about WAIS stability, but the relationship is particularly steep when we do not assume collapse to be inevitable.

They tested their assumptions using standard daily weather data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).

We've read your feedback, reviewed the site analytics and tested our assumptions and ideas.

Use real customers to test the assumptions of your business model.

Your projections» purpose is to help you test your assumptions about profitability, not predict the future.

It's an exploratory process in which you can evaluate your options, test your assumptions about your idea, and even discover new opportunities.

Or did they adequately test the assumptions of the strategy and review alternatives to it?

The Founder Institute advocates getting your product out on the market as soon as possible so that you can get feedback from your customers and test your assumptions before losing time or money.

«Apply that in a way that will help you test your assumptions.»

The second fundamental is that we should identify and test our assumptions about market structure.

I should be able to test these assumptions against comparable companies.

Track and test these assumptions on an ongoing basis and if they prove false, react to them quickly.

Bob Cavezza is an entrepreneur, is busy getting the kinks out of EasyUnsubscriber.com and testing assumptions for Advermin.com.

To test these assumptions, I ran an annually rebalanced backtest of this Meb Faber shareholder yield metric.

«It's all about generating ideas, testing assumptions and getting to the bottom of how middle - class families and individuals can be best served by their government,» he said Monday in an e-mail.

You're constantly testing assumptions, adjusting and readjusting.

Defining the «redemptive quest» and the «maturation» of a community of faith can really be done only in conversation with the tradition, a conversation that tests our assumptions and challenges even our most cherished and deeply held convictions.

In August New Scientist reported that Aaron Schurger, leading a research team in France, had tested the assumption that the readiness potential is the signature of the brain preparing to act.

They were game for having us try to maximize their fundraising revenue, by testing our assumptions during the initial stage so we could use the approaches that proved to work the best for the remainder of the campaign.

Along with rapid validation techniques allowing in - house teams to test assumptions in hours or days, such insights enable internal innovators to drive change in health systems efficiently, instead of discovering months or years later that they invested in the wrong strategy.

To test that assumption, Tranel and his research team designed a simple, if time - consuming, experiment.

But little research has tested this assumption.

To test this assumption, Malin Pinsky and Stephen Palumbi of Stanford University in California gathered published data on genetic diversity in 37 overfished species and compared it with diversity in 51 of their lightly fished relatives.

Together with Professor Rod Peakall of Australian National University, he decided to test this assumption by taking advantage of an experiment already designed by nature.

«Since we didn't just examine different environments, but actually different continents, our study directly tests this assumption,» they add.

To test this assumption, we designed 2 nonwriting motor tasks in which subjects had to perform a 4 - finger motor sequence either on the basis of sensory stimuli previously memorized (SM task) or freely generated (SG task).

Schreier, A.L., Swedell, L. (2010) Food distribution and social cohesion in hamadryas baboons: testing the assumptions behind the evolution of hamadryas social structure.

Let's test that assumption: Go down and do 30 push - ups.

You're testing assumptions about your concept, target market, app functionality, customer requirements, messaging and branding, customer acquisition and retention, and other key metrics which together drive dating industry success.

He explained that dating apps today need to focus on testing assumptions.

You will learn and apply practices such as deep listening and testing assumptions to improve professional relationships, diagnose challenges, achieve personal leadership goals, and respond successfully to the complex demands of education leadership.

Then, using techniques like sketching, storyboarding, and paper prototyping, we can quickly test our assumptions, gather feedback, and revise our approach (or scrap it entirely).

It is the best way to test your assumptions and validate your design strategy.

Throughout this phase, the development team will continually test assumptions made in the Pre-Production phase.

[We ask participants to] partner with others in an interactive experience to test their assumptions.

Test your assumptions.

Can you test these assumptions with members of the audience?

We therefore moved to test our assumptions through causal modeling, guided by a set of possible interpretations of the regressions, as well as the literature reviewed above.

(Every few years they test their assumptions against their actual observed data.)

By surfacing and testing assumptions of potential outcomes, systems thinking leaders can carefully weigh consequences of decisions.

Smith's narrator's anxiety and recalcitrance are legion, but through her omnivorous senses, wary skepticism, and ballistic wit we experience vitally detailed settings and dramatic and ludicrous situations that put to the test assumptions about self and community, creativity and activism.

They are the people who have an inkling of an idea or a trend or how something is going to change and how quickly they can build an experiment to test that assumption.

That is, we need to reposition publishing as the engine of the engagement economy; • We need rules, a set of principles that are based in fairness and recognize that we have to balance current requirements with some, perhaps many, future unknowns; • We need feedback, a shared way to model new approaches, test assumptions and make decisions based in fact; and • We need a hook, a reason to collaborate

By analyzing present distribution patterns of books and music, this article tests the assumption that works will be under - exploited unless they are owned and therefore questions the validity of arguments in favor of copyright term extension.

You need to focus on what sells, and test your assumptions (I recently found out that the picture I was using for my first online course, everybody hated.

(PWL tests this assumption with Monte Carlo simulations.)

And the point is this: it may look cheap, but test your assumptions on the values of assets and liabilities before committing a lot of capital to a any insurance stock.