Sentences with phrase «worse than the average»

Buffett, who has ordered that most of the money he is not giving away at his death should be placed in an index fund, also said active investing as a whole was «certain» to produce worse than average results.

What will make this recession worse than average is not the fact that a couple of additional industries are affected, but that the extreme speculation and excessive debt of recent years will propagate the effects of this downturn through the financial system.

Those who believe the Bible is the literal word of God did slightly worse than average, while those who say it is not the word of God scored slightly better.

funny — VThose who believe the Bible is the literal word of God did slightly worse than average, while those who say it is not the word of God scored slightly better.

Among the many references to his friendship with the ill - reputed tax - gatherers there is one only which tells us something about the individual concerned — Zacchaeus, the wealthy inspector of taxes at Jericho, an enterprising little man who was perhaps no better and no worse than the average of his profession.

I don't think Romney is any worse than the average politician.

Given that this team has one of the worst starting Qbs in the league, this WR corps will be much worse than their average talent would indicate.

The Yankees are giving up too much offense as a team, as they're also struggling to produce at third base (where Chase Headley and Friends have been significantly worse than average) and in center field whenever Jacoby Ellsbury is the one patrolling it.

Its obvious Dean is totally biased, stats prove it, Arsenal results with him officiating are far worse than average.

If Milos puts forth some effort, I don't think his defense will be that much worse than average.

The stuff that he's bad at, he's worse than average at that stuff.

Each point above or below 100 represents 1 percent better or worse than the average team.

(Now, if there's a doctor who's doing mostly normal deliveries and getting worse than average outcomes, that's a matter for his colleagues, hospital, etc..)

Wow, substantially worse than average for neonatal death rates, and extremely bad for maternal death rate.

But your case seems a bit worse than average so it might be a good way forward.

Like a medical prognosis from smoking, the fact that things might turn out better or worse than the average is not a good reason to keep puffing.

Or even better, «stories could place long - term growth in historical perspective, telling voters whether it was better or worse than average.»

«But ConceptNet 4 did dramatically worse than average on comprehensionthe «why» questions,» he said.

«You're better than average at some things, worse than average at other things, about average at many things, as is everyone else.»

The comedy misfires for the most part although that might be a question of taste, the drama elements feel clumsy, bland, but it's not handled worse than your average, mediocre American TV series.

Quite a few of them, in fact, being led by the Grand Witch Muriel (Famke Janssen), who, as you may imagine, is several orders of magnitude worse than your average witch.

In the case of West Virginia for 4th - grade math, the difference (60.8 percent — 28.1 percent = 32.7 percentage points) is about 0.02 standard deviations worse than the average difference between the state test and the NAEP over the three years, which is 32.4 percent.

A recent investigation of achievement in one large Tennessee school district (in which I am collaborating with Sanders and Paul Wright of the SAS Institute) has found that 20 percent of math teachers are recognizably better or worse than average by a conventional statistical criterion.

Minorities fared worse than average in the U.S. Department of Education study: Only about half of black and Hispanic students would meet the stricter guidelines.

However, the report shows that Wales» performance in the Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) did worse than average in 2009, and were also below average for maths, reading in Science in the most recent results in December.

Our results suggest there may also be an occasional program whose teachers are significantly worse than average.

With rare exceptions, we can not use student test scores to say whether a given program's teachers are significantly better or worse than average.

Is it better of worse than the average for urban poor?

If three years of data is used there is about a 25 percent change that a teacher who is «average» would be identified as significantly worse than average, and, under new evaluation systems, perhaps fired.

So my challenge to you is this: don't get caught up in battles about whether charters are a little better or a little worse than average on discipline.

A new report released by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) investigates five years of charter school performance in Ohio and finds that the average charter school is performing worse than the average public -LSB-...] Read More»

The Acadia is predicted to have worse than average reliability.

Reliability so far has been a black hole — much worse than average for both the C - Max and the plug - in C - Max Energi.

According to Consumer Reports» owner surveys, the X5 has worse than average reliability for the six - cylinder and much worse than average reliability for the V - 8.

The findings show that in an accident, VN / VP Commodores provide a «worse than average» level of occupant protection.

[69] The Used Car Safety Ratings, published in 2008 by the Monash University Accident Research Centre, found that first generation Commodores (VB — VL) provide a «worse than average» level of occupant safety protection in the event of an accident.

Consumer Reports rates Focus reliability worse than average.

Its Honda Civic sedan, the 2016 North American Car of the Year and a PCMag Editors» Choice among compact cars, fared much worse than average on reliability.

[58] Labelling the car a new «gateway» into the Mercedes - Benz brand with sales «beyond our optimistic expectations» by Mercedes - Benz, [59][60] Consumer Reports rates the CLA as «140 % worse than the average car» in the 2014 Annual Auto Reliability Survey.

A Forester 2.5 i (with the 17 - inch wheels) made this same stop in 126 feet, which is a little worse than average.

Ebooks generally look worse than your average trade paperback or hardcover book.

Capable of displaying 66.7 percent of the sRGB color gamut, the T200 fared better than the Switch 10 (63.5 percent) but slightly worse than the average ultraportable (69.3) and the Yoga 2 11 (68).

What sort of indicators should I be looking for to evaluate if my rate of return is better or worse than average for the market I am in?

Distinguishing between investment and speculation, he required in his analysis for the former a «margin of safety,» «available for absorbing the effect of miscalculations or worse than average luck,» and placed «particular emphasis on the ability of the investment to withstand adverse developments.»

Virtually every study shows managed funds do worse than average.

I still maintain the average World Financial Group agent is probably worse than the average Investors Group agent or the nice lady who works at your bank.

Assuming that I calculated those numbers correctly, is this gain approximately better, equal to, or worse than an average investment for that timespan?

Past results are no guarantee of future returns, and your results may be better or worse than average.

Translation: An asset class that has performed far better than its long - term average for a few years is likely to perform worse than the average for a time.

[Nothing worse than averaging down in a debt - induced stock spiral...].