Sentence examples for an imprecise measure from inspiring English sources

As for the citations, scientists point out that they are an imprecise measure.

But it was always an imprecise measure, and we can do better at little cost.

Those counts, while an imprecise measure of population, rose steadily through the early 1990's but have stubbornly remained at 2,100 to 2,500 since 1995.

Fund-raising is an imprecise measure of political strength, but it is widely used by politicians trying to judge a candidacy before polls have much value.

This is an imprecise measure of when a president is working, of course; he might take meetings after hours or review documents that are pertinent to his job.

This week, Mr. Bernanke played down the importance of the headline unemployment figure, saying it was often an imprecise measure of the job market.

Similarly, in a world of rising educational attainment and credentialism, job entry requirements represent an increasingly imprecise measure of job complexity.

Although a more imprecise measure, the verbal autopsy method has been validated as a useful tool in developing countries [ 19].

Overeducation has been criticised on the grounds that it represents a relatively imprecise measure of human capital mismatch, whereby education proxies individual human capital and job entry requirements proxy the skill requirements of the job.

While this is the most widely used and clinically validated measure of pubertal development, it is nevertheless a relatively imprecise measure that subjectively categorises puberty into broad developmental stages, and is subject to potential biases.

However, skinfold thickness is a relatively imprecise measure for evaluating total body fat or regional fat, and does not precisely assess changes due to fluid losses [ 30, 41, 47].