Sentence examples for a poor index of from inspiring English sources

Kuznets fashioned the tools for the department to measure G.D.P., but, in the process, warned that the statistic provided a poor index of the country's well-being; "The welfare of a nation can…scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income," he wrote in a 1934 report.

Therefore, work achievement, was not a strong predictor of offspring sex ratios, suggesting that either maternal testosterone was not associated with sex ratio, or, more likely, that work achievement is a poor index of testosterone.

However, BMI is a poor index of fatness in females with ED, explaining only ~50% of the variance in percentage fat estimated by skinfolds or densitometry.

Previous studies that measured earthworm abundance from an unknown depth in the soil via formalin sampling may provide a poor index of how rich habitats were for badgers and their particular method of foraging.

However, these findings are not necessarily generalisable to overall sedentary or sitting time because TV viewing is a complex exposure that seems to be a poor index of overall ST. 17 In a recent US study comparing associations between TV time and objectively measured ST, associations were of fair magnitude, but were not consistent across population subgroups.

These results are also consistent to our intuition about organismal complexity, whilst the number of genes is a poor index here.

Body mass index (BMI) is a poor indicator of body fat distribution, as evidenced by the occurrence of the variation in the burden of metabolic disorders, diabetes, and CVD among individuals with similar BMI [ 14].

However, poor indexing of meeting abstracts means that a comprehensive search will require searching other sources in addition to bibliographic databases.

Challenges in optimising search terms, poor indexing of studies, limitations of databases used or the existence of grey literature will also prevent us from collecting comprehensive data.

Arnold et al [ 3] initially searched MEDLINE for pilot trials in critical care medicine, but then canvassed known clinical investigators because of the poor indexing of pilot trials.

Although our search strategy was broad, important research or subgroups may still have been overlooked due to the poor indexing of qualitative research.