Sentences with phrase «wrong assumptions did»

What mistakes or wrong assumptions did you make with the marketing of your first book?

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These assumptions are wrong, and it's time we pay as much attention to the mental health of organizational leaders as we do their employees — if not more.

Basically, the argument was, if you're going to spend decades with a person you're going to miscommunicate, you're going to misunderstand each other, you're going to have situations where you don't get where the other person is coming from or you make the wrong assumptions.

At the heart of the dispute, according to the court documents, is the fact that Silent Circle has struggled to sell the Blackphone, with its failure associated with wrong assumptions of demand for the privacy - focused smartphone and partnerships that did not push through.

If those assumptions disappoint and it becomes clear that profit margins will not be forever sustained at record highs, it doesn't only imply near - term earnings disappointments - it implies that the whole stream of future earnings impounded into stock prices is wrong.

Although you make several wrong assumptions about a person you know absolutely nothing about, I did press on to the end.

The first wrong assumption is that a large number of Christians are able to dictate to God what He should do.

Examples of this would be our presupposition that it is better to do right than to do wrong, or a general assumption on how to distinguish one from the other.

For example, when Mark says that war / conflict is inevitable, I would agree with your argument that if it is absolutely wrong to ever go to war, then Christians should still refuse to do so even if other people are going to — except that I don't agree with your assumption that it is absolutely wrong to ever go to war.

Your assumption that atheists do not contribute to the community is wrong.

Of course, that does not prove that the assumption of self - enclosedness is wrong, but it opens up the possibility of reconsideration.

But as McFague has said, «for theology to do less than fit our present understanding — for it to accept basic assumptions about reality from a very different time — seems blatantly wrong - headed» (McFague, 14).

Just because we make assumptions (and are wrong), does not mean that God is «dead», or the Bible is untrue.

It took me a long time to realize that not only did these assumptions misrepresented the teachings of the Catholic Church, but they contributed to that common narrative that plagues much of evangelicalism — that people are damned for having the «wrong» doctrine (and by «wrong,» I mean «not evangelical.»)

My assumption is that when God does justice he begins a process of setting things right.The wrong God aims to set right, I have been suggesting, is a failure to....

With due respect to your opinion mate I don't need to listen to Wenger or make assumptions to know what's wrong with our beloved club, come on open your eyes man!!!

And they are wrong to do so and they are making false assumptions.

These assumptions can leave many mothers thinking that their skinny baby is skinny because of them; that they're doing something wrong; that there must be an important step in feeding their kid that they're somehow skipping; that their baby isn't healthy when, truth be told, they are.

But instead of prosecuting those involved and starting an investigation into other schools which might be suspected of wrong doing, the Home Office proceeded on the assumption that everyone nationwide who had done the government - recommended TOEIC test had committed fraud.

«We have no doubt that the government will continue to plough ahead with HS2 despite PAC's devastating criticism - that there is no convincing strategic case and out - of - date information and wrong assumptions were used which do not reflect real life,» Hilary Wharf.

The implicit assumption is that we don't posit that there is a «right» or «wrong» vote, or that the outcome was wrong because they «should have thought differently».

He says: «The assumption that the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg having consolidated a centre right hold on the party is preparing to do a deal with the Tories is wrong.»

Researchers already knew that some Europeans of this time had dark skin and blue eyes, but Cheddar Man reveals that previous assumptions that early inhabitants of the British Isles had lighter skin and hair were wrong — and that those traits didn't spread through England until the past 4800 years or so.

Only then did she find out her assumption was wrong: lower - scoring students had a choice; top exam scorers were assigned to labs.

The only evidence that supports this position is statistical (they do not offer a plausible physiologic mechanism), and their statistical work is seriously flawed by wrong assumptions and confounding variables.

Most often these assumptions are that the person views things the same way that you do, which is more than likely wrong since we don't get context and tone in text messages or email.

In Sir Robert's chambers Desmond explains their predicament: the legal assumption is that the Admiralty and the Crown can do no wrong and can not be sued.

When those assumptions are wrong or the state doesn't save enough for the future, it turns into a pension debt.

And, he says, it would be wrong to criticize other ethnic groups on the assumption that they don't support their children to the same degree that Asian American parents do.

But the more fundamental assumption here is that if the student learning (i.e., test based) indicators do not correlate with the observational indicators, the latter MUST be wrong, biased, distorted, and accordingly less trustworthy and the like.

Does your argument address an assumption (which could be wrong) that the SAT / ACT test - takers are self - selected?

Things look very different if we start from the opposite assumption: Teachers want to do their best for children and are willing to work as hard as it takes, but they may not know how to improve or what's wrong with the way they've always taught.

Social scientists were wrong in the belief that change would come easily... Simply mixing children in the classroom and trusting to benign human nature could never have done the trick... What I am questioning here are the assumptions underlying the belief that school desegregation, as implemented in the typical school district, will be an instrument to achieve [equal opportunity for all].

They have kept it as pure as humanly possible, but there seems to be this constant assumption that they have done something wrong.

I could be wrong, so don't hold me to this assumption if I am.

(These are assumptions I'm making, please do correct / educate me if I'm wrong)..

He is probably making a different assumption somewhere which does not mean his code is wrong.

But I don't think there's anything wrong with that broad assumption to protect your investment capital.

Even if we succeed in doing away with our myths, misconceptions, wrong assumptions, etc., we will be much better off.

But there are many reasons why that answer could be wrong, because the math makes too many assumptions about market liquidity, investor rationality, soundness of funding sources, etc.» Most quants don't know what they are assuming.

(There's a few assumptions needed to get my TLI numbers, given the limited disclosure, but I don't think the result can be that far wrong).

If I'm wrong about your age, that's fine, but, don't make assumptions that people who argue for being reasonable aren't «hard core» enough.

You have done little to indicate that my assumptions or conclusions about a UHI effect were necessarily wrong which is what my # 123 was about.

While there are undoubtedly individual cases where this has been the case (this protein folding code for instance), the vast majority of papers that turn out to be wrong, or non-robust are because of incorrect basic assumptions, overestimates of the power of a test, some wishful thinking, or a failure to take account of other important processes (It might be a good idea for someone to tally this in a quantitative way — any ideas for how that might be done?).

Everyone needs to make assumptions and people do get things wrong.

I am kind of a reductionist empiricist by nature so I don't see anything wrong w / playing around w / oceanic fertilization, under the assumption that it can't go * too * bad * too * quickly.

I do not think that he's argument is based on this assumption, which means that he could be still right even if he got this one wrong.

I think any mathematically - competent scientist who believes in objective inference from experimental results would accept that the IPCC replot of Forster / Gregory06 was wrong, in that it did not reflect the (standard) error distribution assumptions made by the paper's authors.

I don't see anything wrong with approaching system analysis with minimal assumptions and seeing what pops out.

You made an assumption, failed to do your due diligence, you were wrong, and you were called on it.