Sentences with phrase «testing whether people»

The company is testing whether people make fewer aggressive and inflammatory statements when they are in conversation with friends and people they know as opposed to strangers, he said.

The researchers tested whether people were more likely to give if they received the gift at the same time that they received the solicitation, or the promise of a gift only if the alum donated.

«By moving the eyes off the head, we could test whether people were really drawn to the eyes or just the head in general,» says study author Christina Starmans, a Ph.D. student at Yale University.

To find out, Deng et al. tested whether people chronically infected with HIV - 1 harbor CD8 + T cells that can recognize unmutated portions of latent HIV - 1.

They set out to test whether a person's ability to understand and problem solve could be influenced by how he or she moves.

Here, the idea was to test whether people understood that a stock mutual fund contains many stocks and that investing in a large group of stocks is generally less risky than putting all one's money into a the stock of a single company.

Not exact matches

Because one of Shomi's differentiators is human curation, we have the opportunity to take that content and test whether it was an anomaly or are people really digging it, or is it just not fitting our brand our audience?

«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.

The company is partnering up with a group of clinicians at Stanford, as well as telemedicine vendor American Well, to test whether Apple Watch's heart rate sensor can detect abnormal heart rhythms in a cohort of patients, according to two people familiar.

Apple is working with partners to test whether its smartwatch can be used to detect common heart conditions, an effort that would make its device a «must have» for millions of people worldwide.

As a sales VP I used to work for told me: «That's the best test for whether the person is serious about moving forward.»

«The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps... improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.»

«When people are told that they are going to perform poorly, whether it's on a test or in a certain job position, they usually perform down to those expectations,» says Kang.

The real test lies in whether they can keep people engaged in an issue that has not sustained interest, he said.

The test, he says, is whether a natural or legal person had a duty that was violated by acting unreasonably, in a way that causes harm.

I am just testing a few people Doc whether I can converse with you instead of you writing responses to the phony that hides behind his / her keyboard pretending to be me.

The Catholic Church and exorcists have reiterated so many times that before they do the rite the person has been tested by doctors and psychologists to rule out some sort of physical or mental illness (whether it may be an illness that no one has discovered or coined / cured is moot).

D. Martyn Lloyd - Jones (1899 - 1981)[in an excerpt from Romans: The New Man, An Exposition of Chapter 6, Banner of Truth, 1972] said: There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do; you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will redound all the more to the glory of grace.

«There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do;....

As far as I can see, there is only one good reason for ever testing anyone: to ascertain whether that person is qualified for, or deserving of, certain rewards or privileges.

The test in the end, which the political system provides, is whether these people comprise a significant fraction of of the voting public.

Another test for the church is how far it can build an accepting fellowship where people can articulate their own experience of God in Christ This again raises questions about the future organization of the institutional church and whether it can or should maintain its present hierarchical structure where authority seems to come down from on high.

They did not, however, see a need to absolutize anything in the Bible as a final standard of judgement, even what Sölle calls the gospel's «nonderivable promise and the demand for peace, freedom, and justice for all people».5 The test of our present judgements is not their conformation to any Christian absolute but rather whether they have developed responsibly through Christian history.

The real test of dialogue is whether people in one faith community can make their own the prayers of another faith tradition, without making faith traditions predatory or obsolescent.

Others raised questions about whether eliminating these words on tests would just mean these words would offend people more in their day - to - day lives:

Casey was right in saying that the American people are being tested by the regime of Roe, but the test is whether we have the decency and the will to overthrow it.

Most of you know that pregnancy loss is a big part of our story and this tee was created for every person who has loved a child — whether it was just 2 lines on a pregnancy test, whether it was before 40 weeks, whether they took them home from the hospital or not, whether they hold them in their arms, or only in their heart.

Not even the American people themselves seem completely at ease about whether their admitted obsessions with sexual pleasure and material possession meet the test of external and overriding criteria.

«The test of a democracy is not whether the people vote, but whether the people rule,» G. K. Chesterton once wrote.

In TB eradication campaigns, the overreporting of people's cooperation with medical advice is measurable (chemical tests show whether patients have taken their pills or not) and quite high.

If an adult experiences an acute, sudden onset of chest pain, most people would say that the decision about whether that person had or is having a heart attack should be made by a doctor, that if you suspect something serious is going on, it should be get it checked out right away by a medical professional, and that no smartphone app or test can - or should - take the doctor's place.

When any of these people spots a possible concussion, an independent neurologist on the sidelines will conduct a series of tests and determine whether a player needs to be taken off the field or if he'll return to the game.

The likelihood ratio interaction test was used to determine whether the effect of infant feeding varied according to social class (I — IIInm versus IIIm — V / other), crowding (< 0.7 versus ⩾ 0.7 total persons in house / total rooms), accommodation type (rented council versus not), and Jarman (< 1.5 versus ⩾ 1.5, where 1.5 was the median value).

«Nobody's suggesting that people shouldn't pay their fair share, If you single out one industry and you make that industry pay a disproportionate amount - whether you agree with it or not in a fairness test — it's just not a practical sense.

The point is to test whether or not BAFS is indeed the most suitable one for estimating people's choices and hence making electoral predictions.

We tested whether, if either an election party candidate or journalists on people's chosen newspaper were shown to have low personal moral standards, people would be prepared to change their behaviour.

An acid test which the Government faces is whether the measures contained in today's Budget will deliver lasting solutions that will help to improve outcomes for all children and young people.

He / she will also test the person's reflexes and may check whether they can feel the difference between hot and cold.

And the surest test of whether a job is useful, is to ask whether people would pay for it if they were not forced to pay.

Normally, if a worker from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) wants to take a job in the UK, the prospective employer must first carry out a local labour market test to establish whether there is any local unemployed person capable of doing the job.

I said that you should not keep jobs going because their occupants need jobs (which seems to be the assumption made in your original post), but that you should keep them going if they are useful, and that the way to test usefulness is to ask whether people would pay for them voluntarily.

The test of the worth of a job is whether people will freely, not under the compulsion of taxation, buy your goods and services.

One of the tests ofetn used to differentiate between whether a person is «resident» or «ordinarily resident» for tax purposes is whether a person is on the electoral register.

Adam Fleming took the mood box - an unscientific test with plastic balls - to find out whether the people of Brussels backed the David Cameron or Jean - Claude Juncker vision for Europe.

Newsnight's Allegra Stratton visits Accrington to test whether ministers» claims that there has been a toughening of attitudes to people who depend on it rings true and meet some of those on the sharp end

Early one morning last July, Genise had taken a little white capsule containing the psychedelic as part of a medically supervised study to test whether it could ease the mental anguish of people with terminal cancer.

Nearly two dozen of the altered genes are present in both the hippocampus and the blood, which presents the possibility that scientists could develop a gene - based blood test to determine whether a brain injury has occurred, and that measuring some of those genes could help doctors predict whether a person is likely to develop Alzheimer's or other disorders.

Joshua Ackerman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues ran six tests on people in the street, to see whether the objects they were touching could influence judgements and decision - making.

Even considering the seriousness of nonfatal heart disease, the ultimate test is not whether statins keep a person from an angioplasty or even heart attack, but whether the drugs save lives.

We know that they are under stress when they are fighting cancer or other diseases, so I wondered whether anything measureable could be seen if we put them under further stress with UVA light.We found that people with cancer have DNA which is more easily damaged by ultraviolet light than other people, so the test shows the sensitivity to damage of all the DNA — the genome — in a cell.»