Abstinence-only and fear-based "education" is as ineffective at preventing drug use as it is at preventing teen pregnancy, but unfortunately it is the only thing that most students hear.
Practicing something badly may be as ineffective as not practicing it at all.
As ineffective at Sunderland as Defoe was at Toronto, the deal that saw both players go in opposite directions has revitalized both players' careers, but Altidore has reserved his best form for the perfect time of year.
We need only look at the last 30 years to know that this enhancement will be as ineffective at stopping the use and sale of fentanyl as the 1986 laws were at stopping heroin.
So, second piece of bad news: The Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights has been almost as ineffective at preventing data collection as the original.
Some may call it the law of unintended consequences, some the Streisand effect, but when a council tries to ban swearing on its streets and most people react by saying, "Wankers!", the ban should be regarded as ineffective at best.
And while there were many factors that led to the missile crisis, it is no exaggeration to say that the impression Khrushchev formed at Vienna — of Kennedy as ineffective — was among them.
He criticized the group as ineffective at stopping deforestation, since it prohibits palm oil development only in forests with high conservation value, contending that it does little to sanction members who fail to live up to their commitments.
However, women will act less ethically, such as telling a lie, when they fear being viewed as ineffective at representing another person's interests," says Kray. "When women negotiate on behalf of someone else, they are willing to make compromises in order to satisfy the needs of others".
Participants talked about pricing policies as ineffective at changing health-related behaviour but as highly effective ways to increase government income.
