... but there just aren't enough
well done studies to prove it yet.
Flynn:
Well I did a study; in the new book I have a study and it was very frustrating.
«But this is a very
well done study, and when policy is being made they are going to have to pay a lot of attention to this.»
People often say 80 % of the legal need goes unmet, and what they're almost always talking about when they say that, is this Legal Services Corporation study that is probably getting a little bit long in the tooth, but was
a well done study that shows that about 80 % of the people who qualify for legal aid and have a legal problem that legal aid could help with, nevertheless get turned away, mostly because of a lack of resources.
Not exact matches
This sweet, rich oil was shown to
do some pretty nifty things for abdominally obese women in a 2009
study out of Brazil, including decreasing their waist circumference, increasing beneficial HDL (high - density lipoprotein) cholesterol and improving the ratio of «bad» LDL (low - density lipoprotein) to «
good» HDL cholesterol.
According to the
study, «Loyalty has a lot more to
do with how
well companies deliver on their basic, even plain - vanilla promises than on how dazzling the service experience might be.
According to an American Psychological Association
study, «Almost all employees (93 percent) who reported feeling valued say they are motivated to
do their
best at work.»
«The work that they've
done designing and executing on their engine is really impressive,» says Jory Bell, partner at Playground, which had former SpaceX employees
study Relativity's architecture before deciding to invest in its Series A. «And every technical decision they've made is optimized not only to serve their initial market, but to scale up as
well.»
«A boy doesn't need to
study hard to have a
good job,» [16 - year - old Nawar] Mousa said.
Some cities are
better for driving than others — and that largely has to
do with traffic and gas prices, according to a Waze
study.
Decades of research, including a new
study published in December in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has failed to find substantial evidence that vitamins and supplements
do any significant
good.
Third, contrary to popular belief, «
studies have also shown that brainstorming is often
best done alone,» claims Cooper.
According to a
study done at the University of Utah in 2015, the
best time to get married in order to have a long, successful marriage is between the ages of 28 and 32.
Here's the most revealing finding from the Achievement Group / HRmarketer
study: 58 percent of respondents agreed that results
did not — or only slightly — helped managers gain a
better understanding of what behaviors or practices they could change to improve.
A new
study looking at one of these types of fasting suggests that the method works roughly as
well for weight loss as traditional dieting
does.
Well, Fenwick & West
did a
study of U.S. tech IPOs that
did a private financing within three years of their IPO.
It's more difficult for them to land
good jobs, according to a
study from the Pew Research Center, in spite of the fact that more millennials are getting college degrees than their parents
did.
A large 2014
study of more than 25,000 people with heart disease found that putting people on long - acting doses of vitamin B3 to raise their levels of «
good,» or HDL, cholesterol didn't reduce the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, or deaths.
So what I've observed is when I first
did the
study two years ago — and I
did it together with US News and WPP — when I first
did this
study, the US was ranked as the fourth -
best brand.
Nevertheless, as the
study is the largest and longest
study of its kind, more research is likely needed before we reach any definitive conclusions about how
well it works — or doesn't.
While a case
study is
good, consider how you can turn it into a meaningful story — how
does or could the work being proposed influence others» lives?
«Highly conscientious employees
do a series of things
better than the rest of us,» says University of Illinois psychologist Brent Roberts, who
studies conscientiousness.
Dave and Helen Edwards, co-founders of artificial intelligence research firm Intelligenstia.ai, don't go so far as to suggest a specific course of
study, but like Kalt they have publicly insisted that if you want your kids to thrive in an AI - filled future, you
better teach them how to handle human beings, unpredictability, and complexity, all of which a liberal arts degree forces you to confront and grow comfortable with.
In Gallup's
study, only three in 10 U.S. employees strongly agree with the statement, «In the last seven days, I have received recognition or praise for
doing good work.»
Announcing your goals publicly is a tried - and - true way of dissuading yourself from weaseling out of them; one
study found people who talked about their weight loss efforts on Twitter fared
better than those who didn't.
Page said that even in a
best case scenario, a male birth control pill for consumers is still between five and 10 years away, since much larger - scale
studies need to be
done before the FDA would give a seal of approval.
This so - called «Consensus
Study Report» appears to have no real consensus at all — or if it
does,
well, then the bottom line is as squiggly as they come.
Rosekind, the scientist who
studied the benefits of naps and developed a «fatigue countermeasures» program for NASA, put it in terms business people can understand: «Which person
do you want on the job, the one with 34 %
better performance [after a nap] and 100 % more alert — or the other guy?»
And if you need more motivation to increase your shut - eye time, there are plenty of
studies available that indicate that people who don't get enough sleep age faster, experience a loss of brain power in mid-life and don't grow as tall as people who are
well - rested.
When your nerves are getting the
better of you at a party or another social event, simply remember this
study and see if spreading a little happiness doesn't make the whole experience a bit more joyful for you, too.
One recent
study showed that people who basked in bright sunlight within two hours after waking tended to be thinner and
better able to manage their weight than people who didn't get any natural light, regardless of what they ate throughout the day.
Young people don't appear to be as saddled by this issue, though — a 2011
study found that humans are
best at learning new names in our early 20s.
Any Canadian — whether an individual flying in their backyard or an employee of a company using it for business purposes — would
do well to
study up on the
do's and don'ts first.
The
study doesn't stop at ethics but looks at legality as
well.
«We
did studies of what makes one nationality more valuable than another, and of course the British nationality is one of the
best in the world,» Professor Dimitry Kochenov at the University of Groningen, who compiled the report, said at a conference in London.
Not only
did the vast majority Americans» net - worth tumble during the recession, for 93 % of households, it continued to slide during the first two years of the recovery as
well, a recent
study by the Pew Research Center found.
You could even make it
better with a case
study of what your customers
do and how your product is helping them achieve a particular business process.
«One
study looked at students in New York and showed that those who ate lunches that
did not include artificial flavors, preservatives, and dyes
did 14 %
better on IQ tests than the students who ate lunches with these additives.»
«If we add machine learning, the field of
study that allows computers to self - learn without specific programming to
do so, to existing artificial intelligence (A.I.), the resulting machines will be
better able to diagnose and heal patients than their human counterparts can now,» he notes.
And while those warm fuzzy feelings can
do more than just make you feel
good —
studies show a sense of purpose may also help you live longer.
In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to
studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live
better and longer lives than folks who didn't.
According to a recent
study conducted by Harvard University, which polled young adults between the ages of 18 and 29, not so
good: 51 percent of survey respondents said they
do not support capitalism, and only 42 percent were in favor of it.
The American Beverage Association dismissed the
study in a statement, saying it
did «not show that consuming sugar - sweetened beverages causes chronic diseases and the authors themselves acknowledge that they are at
best estimating effects of sugar - sweetened beverage consumption.»
But Darrell West, director of governance
studies at the Brookings Institution, has
done his
best to comb through disclosure reports and, by combining that information with qualitative judgments about softer forms of power, come up with a ranking of our new oligarchy.
If you're in the kind of a job where maybe someone else can look at the record of what you've
done in the past and — based on looking at that,
studying it, practicing it and repeating it — they could learn your job, then there's a
good chance that an algorithm could also
do that.
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.
The individuals in Sialm's
study who
did best held small - cap stocks with head offices in their own city or region.
Gill points to
studies that have shown confident people
do better in life, regardless of their actual skill.
But my interest in this case has to
do with the ethics of leadership, and I think the events described above provide for a
good case -
study of such.
«We found that in general, the more you engage in creative activities, the
better you'll
do,» said the
study's lead author Kevin Eschleman, an assistant professor of psychology at San Francisco State.