Sentences with phrase «testing people on»

«The fallacy in thinking that repetitive exposure builds memory has been well established through a series of investigations going back to the mid-1960's, when the psychologist Endel Tulving at the University of Toronto began testing people on their ability to remember lists of common English nouns.

Quantifiable university grade kind of measures and we test the people on coffee from a selection of corner coffee shops.

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The company's nearly a dozen employees help people sell their cars on consignment by conducting test drives, handling paperwork, offering financing and providing a one - stop location for any other car - selling needs.

It followed 100 people aged 55 to 86 as they pursued a specific fitness regime, measuring the effects on their brains through tests and MRI scans.

For more than a year, Finland has been testing the proposition that the best way to lift economic fortunes may be the simplest: Hand out money without rules or restrictions on how people use it.

And we with people do with ripple do some tests with some corridors on the settlement side.

He realized it was time to bring a business person in to focus on growing the company and let him return to testing the product: «We want to make sure the Nymi wristband is very user - friendly so people would enjoy using it once it launches.»

Gill is one of just a handful of people who bet on politics full time, but he's part of a growing community of thousands who test their luck — or, as many maintain, skill — at guessing the outcomes of the ever - unpredictable administration of President Donald Trump.

Keeping an eye on blood test results is what Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the revolutionary blood test company Theranos, thinks will transform medicine and help people find out they are sick sooner in life.

Personality tests are a «convenient way to categorize people, but they're not the absolute truth,» says Natella, who puts test scores into context by comparing them with the average scores of his best reps.. The bigger test comes when he puts potential salespeople on the phones for two half days to call potential clients.

Every person alive on the 71st anniversary of those attacks holds in their flesh radioactive remnants of the nuclear era — a period centered in the early decades of Cold War when nuclear nations conducted atmospheric tests of ever - larger bombs.

The company is working on the tests with partners including Stanford and telemedicine company American Well, according to two people familiar.

This sensor is still in its early days, as the scientists have tested a prototype on only eight people so far.

Clearly many people are willing to take a chance on Alex — just like he took a chance on himself when he turned down other driving opportunities and signed a multi-year contract with HMS in late 2016 to play a key role in the organization's simulation and on - track testing programs.

Most people are wary of change, and know that new technologies take time to learn and stabilize, so customers prefer solutions based on tried - and - tested proven technologies.

In essence, rule - based online trading platforms provide tools and tutorials for people to write algorithms on Web browsers and test their models with years of historic data.

President Donald Trump visited Texas on Tuesday to survey damage from the first major natural disaster to test his leadership in a crisis, as record rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey lashed Houston and tens of thousands of people fled deluged homes.

Performance did not significantly suffer over time on the quantitative tests, but sleep - deprived people still consistently overestimated their achievement.

Again, if you ask people about how they deal with stress and you hear answers that just don't pass the smell test - where someone always seems be in the middle of a crisis - you might just have an arsonist on your hands.

Researchers tested a blizzard of potential «drawdown strategies» — that is, hypothetical rates of spending in retirement, mapped against investment returns on people's savings — to analyze which had the best chance to keep up with inflation and sustain a portfolio through a long retirement.

But the tests that I've found most fruitful are the qualitative ones, where we run a pilot based on a hypothesis about what people want.

According to people's scores on multiple - choice vocabulary tests, most of us don't reach our peak wordsmith - ing abilities until we're in our late 60s or early 70s.

Over 14 days, they tested groups of people who received either four, six or eight hours of sleep on several tasks.

He says the best way to determine if a candidate is the type of person you want on your team is to put them to the test.

Those have included testing kale (soon after McDonald's mocked people who favor that trendy vegetable), trying out lobster rolls (a home run in the Boston area, according to Easterbrook), and, on the marketing front, bringing back the Hamburglar, albeit in a modern guise.

The people who chose to wait for the money tended to have the better scores on the test.

A spokesperson for Microsoft says that the company is «always building and testing new solutions to help people collaborate and get more done,» but declined to offer specific comment on Skype Teams.

A study in the «Journal of Individual Differences» found that people who scored higher on IQ tests as children tended to be more curious and open to new ideas as adults.

«We hire people on the basis of metrics — personality and culture tests as well as skills and values assessments — to determine if they are a good fit for our vision.

But, these people aren't giving Facebook ads a chance to succeed, because they aren't doing nearly enough testing to figure out how to create the right kind of ads on Facebook.

Despite Venter's claims, many doctors oppose Human Longevity's approach, citing the potential for false negatives and the bevy of unnecessary tests on «healthy people.»

Because there is no way to truly know what's inside a candidate — and how that candidate will perform once on the job — every interview involves some form of test the candidate passes or fails, even if that test boils down to, «Do I like this person?»

In 2015, researchers from Harvard and the Boston Attention and Learning Laboratory published a joint study that found people in their mid-40s — specifically, age 43 — tended to do the best on tests of concentration.

«My concerns are that these platforms were built from the ground up by white men and tested on their families and people in their orbit who looked like them, and they never thought about how their platforms could do harm,» Sarkeesian said.

«You're running a healthcare startup, you're dealing with people's lives, you're dealing with test results that doctors prescribe medicine based on,» she said.

Many people assume Zoox, Google, and Uber (which revealed its own driverless test car in May) will eventually launch their own urban fleets of on - demand autonomous vehicles.

April 10 - Embattled blood - testing company Theranos Inc laid off most of its remaining workforce to preserve cash and avert or at least delay bankruptcy for a few more months, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

To hire based on attributes that allow people to get «on base,» have all of your employees take the tests and then identify what attributes your best employees in each role demonstrate.

«This is an early test, and I'm going to keep a close eye on it to make sure we're fighting actual spam and hoaxes, and not limiting people's freedom of expression.»

A pilot allows you to test the effectiveness of your survey invitation, determine if there is a particular point in the survey where people drop out, and see if you'll be able to take action based on the results, Ambler says.

A joint study by the University of Notre Dame, University of Kentucky and Penn State University tested two sets of people on their golf performance; Half were told they were using a Nike putter; the other half were told no brand.

You can always learn them, partner with people who have them, or get the right tools and techniques that will help you test and launch a business idea on your own.

Also known as loganWHD on the web, Hadnagy says in order to test companies» system frailties, he phished around 275,000 people last year and about 1.6 million are on deck this year.

Instead of spending three months bashing your head against the wall trying to come up with «the perfect idea,» just start testing and sharing things on social media and see what people respond to.

Indeed, he found, the bilingual people in this group performed better than expected on intelligence tests at their advanced age, and showed less relative cognitive decline compared to monolingual people.

The filing also argues that the 9th Circuit made the test for defeating a trademark too strict, and that it should — based on an older decision by a different appeals court — instead have simply looked at how most people use the word in question.

Kendallville Mayor Suzanne Handshoe says the city's insurance claims dropped 53 percent from 2010 to 2011, and more people can afford procedures such as annual blood tests to keep tabs on their health.

Comedian and late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel tackled the latest Obamacare repeal effort head - on during his opening monologue last night, arguing that the bill being pushed by Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy and others fails the so - called «Kimmel test» for people with pre-existing conditions — and that Cassidy «lied to [his] face» on the issue.

«We are in the very early stages of testing new ways for more people to easily discover, buy, and sell items with other people on Facebook,» a spokesperson for the Menlo Park, Calif. - based company told Entrepreneur moments ago.

Researchers tested the impact of fatigue on moral resolve, finding that people were more likely to lie the more tired they were.