Sentences with phrase «thinks such estimates»

While he embraces Lackner's much lower estimates, it would be interesting to know why he thinks such estimates are more reasonable.

Not exact matches

With such an estimate of the importance of Christ most Christians, I have intimated, will readily agree — often, it will be granted, without much thought and therefore perhaps too readily.

Findings from congressional groups, such as the Congressional Budget Office (you can think of this as roughly analogous to a rollout cost estimate for a new service)

Given these USDOE restrictions, one might think that the only option is for states and districts to choose a sparse growth model, such as median student growth percentiles (SGPs), that only controls for past student exam scores in estimating student growth.

The think tank estimates giving every seven to 11 - year - old a free lunch would cost upwards of # 950 million a year, and that other policies, such as free breakfast clubs «might be a cheaper and more effective way to improve both education and health outcomes».

In cases of loans like these you will be expected to provide details such as the time you think will be needed to complete the project, the estimated increase in the cost of building materials and other cost factors.

You can do that by going to a good retirement income calculator and plugging in such information as your age, the value of your retirement savings, how your savings is divvied up among stocks, bonds and cash, the estimated monthly income you'll require and how long you think you'll need that money to last.

The framework of assessment they have described to us includes important concerns such as opportunity costs, supporting the animal advocacy movement, and alignment with Open Cages» overall strategy.132 Their assessment process also involves asking important questions related to measuring success and failure, such as how they plan to evaluate the program, how long they plan to pilot it, and whether they already have data indicating that they should rethink their strategy.133 Metrics that they use to help evaluate specific programs include the number of restaurants that agree to provide vegan meals in response to their restaurant outreach, as well as the amount and overall sentiment of right - wing press discussion of their legal initiatives.134, 135 These metrics provide useful information, but we think an organization prioritizing among many different interventions could benefit from the use of metrics that are more directly related to their ultimate goals, rough estimates though they may be.

There are a few reasons we think our preorder prediction ended up being such a conservative estimate.

Many would think such a cooling outcome to be extremely unlikely (in the deep psyche impossible), but until the models have the ability to predict the short term variations occurring over the time interval of one year, we don't know how well the models have estimated natural variability.

This aspect is not the so central to my criticism, although the fact that these different estimates gave such large spread in the coefficient estimates is a bit concerning (don't you think?

Think about it — if the various estimates of climate sensitivity based on the instrumental period still had such fat tails just five years ago, then why would an extra five years suddenly turn that around and allow calculations of sensitivity based on the instrumental period to now rule out high sensitivities?

Since my instinct is that there has been a bit of warming, and one of my complaints has been that there seems to have been no non-risible estimate of it based on land surface measurements, I am glad to think that, after due criticism and correction (if required), there may soon be such a non-risible estimate.

When factors such as the adverse impacts of extreme weather in developing countries are accounted for, the estimated cost of adaptation becomes much higher — $ 600 billion in 2030 — as the South Centre (an independent intergovernmental think - tank) have already pointed out.

Industrial Agriculture's Negative Effects The report didn't go into wider - ranging effects of the industrial agriculture dominant in the US, such as loss of biodiversity, fertilizer run - off, etc. (and whether industrial agriculture is really the best method of raising food, the UN doesn't think so, and I suppose that's all a bit beyond the research brief here) but at least corn ethanol fares a bit better in this study than in previous estimates.

Unlike the bill by the hour lawyers who even bid alternative fee proposals by using estimating the number of hours a matter would take and then padding the final number, plaintiffs lawyers value a case by thinking through such things what's the case worth vs. how long it will likely take to get a settlement or verdict and who is on the other side.

Indeed, and consistent with the differential - susceptibility hypothesis, more daily hassles were associated with less sensitive parenting, whereas lower levels of daily hassles were associated with more sensitive parenting, but only among such parents, not those who did not fit this genetic profile.45 One implication of this observation and differential - susceptibility thinking more generally is that evidence cited highlighting effects of child behaviour and marital / partner relationships on parenting likely over - and under - estimates such effects, as it fails to take into consideration variation in susceptibility on the part of parents.

I'm thinking about such skills as salesmanship, appraisal skills, market and marketing knowledge, negotiating, construction and cost estimating.