Sentences with phrase «using inflated numbers»

As to your point about using inflated numbers an a resume, I agree with you; not very commendable.

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Some sites will publish almost any comment to inflate their comment numbers, when in fact many of the comments are from people who are using blog comments for link building to their own websites.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Adam, to suggest your SUPER inflated numbers (most were killed due to conditionso f war, including by their own governments failure to to give two squirts of piss about them and using then as human shields) somehow makes my country's actions in the war on terror equivalent to terrorism itself is beyond offensive to me.

The state this year reduced the number of answers kids needed to get right on 11 of the 12 Common Core exams, fueling concerns that rising scores were inflated, but state education officials said the questions were «slightly more difficult» than those used in past years.

He built hundreds of thousands of units, using non-profit developers, and he provided the land,» said Albanese, inflating the Koch numbers.

Critics allege that the criteria used to define AAMI are not only arbitrary but grossly inflate the number of «sufferers».

We used a false discovery rate rather than standard significance measures to avoid an inflated false - positive rate as a consequence of the large number of hypothesis tests (42).

Sites that display the last login date allow users to exclude people no longer using the service and it prevents services from inflating their active user numbers.

This is not always the case, since they can use these profiles to inflate their numbers of how many members they have.

Just as for a child who learns how to read it would not be a good idea to ask them to copy the first 15 pages of the phone book to practice letters and numbers, and we would not expect them to develop an affection by for reading, we should not expect a teacher to develop a crazy passion for new technologies if instead of helping them to identify their needs and the types of tools that exist to address those needs, as well as to know the keys that underlie those tools, we are dedicated to inflating them to application manuals of which they will only use 10 % each time.

Still, NCLB gave states significant leeway in calculating graduate rates, and for years, the states used widely differing approaches, often with an eye towards inflating their numbers.

The report contains news stories, criminal records, and other documents to detail abuses such as charter school operators embezzling funds, using tax dollars to illegally support other, non-educational businesses, taking public dollars for services they didn't provide, inflating their enrollment numbers to boost revenues, and putting children in potential danger by foregoing safety regulations or withholding services.

Amazon has accused several book publishers, marketers and authors of using the Kindle Direct Publishing system to artificially inflate their sales numbers and has now filed for arbitration against them.

Amazon has accused several book publishers, marketers and authors of using the Kindle Direct Publishing system to artificially inflate their sales numbers and has now filed for arbitration against the

(Lenders that were trying to inflate their numbers put Alt - A mortgages to good use.)

Thus, traders and investors using aggregate financial accounting numbers to derive superficial financial ratios (e.g. profit margin, return - on - equity) and valuation metrics (e.g. low price - to - earnings, low price - to - book) without understanding the underlying business model, the related - party transactions artificially inflating the aggregate financial numbers and the data generation process in the financial footnotes can be misled.

Thus, traders and investors using aggregate financial accounting numbers to derive superficial financial ratios (e.g. profit margin, return - on - equity) and valuation (e.g. low price - to - earnings, low price - to - book) without understanding the underlying business model, the related - party transactions artificially inflating the aggregate financial numbers and the data generation process in the financial footnotes can be misled.

In it, Dauphiné and Cooper use some remarkably creative accounting, beginning with an unsubstantiated estimate of unowned cats, to which they add an inflated number of owned cats that spend time outdoors.

But I'm involved in the personal finance blogosphere for some freelance stuff I do, and they are having a lot of issues right now because they do a similar list like this based on Alexa, but they've found that almost nobody but bloggers use the toolbar, so it artificially inflates the numbers when the same bloggers visit each others» sites.

It shows a significant negative trend, Fred, because you've artificially inflated the number of points by using monthly rather than yearly data.

But this number is likely inflated, according to economist Robyn Allan, who estimates that only 10 per cent of the crude actually faces the discount because producers use vertical integration with refineries, upgrading, long - term shipment contracts for pipelines and the futures market.

That means its kill - coal rules costAmericans $ 400 million to $ 4.8 billion more than the clearly inflated benefits, using EPA's own numbers.

Shear observes that some people who wish to hold themselves out as experts in their profession use deceptive social media tactics to create that impression, including sharp practices to artificially inflate their number of Twitter followers.

Lawyers and law firms who start using a product billed as successful because of money raised and traffic / user numbers (often inflated) take a hit.

I found Samsung's step count numbers to be wildly inflated relative to my Jawbone UP24, and I found no use for the heart rate monitor whatsoever, as you can't use it for continuous, real - time reporting in the middle of a cardio workout.

Zero - inflated Poisson regression models were used to test for intervention impact on numbers of tardies, absences, and discipline referrals.