But since no one publishes negative results, Lehrer says, those important decisions are sometimes based on biased information.
It is sometimes based on sources you wouldn't take to Sunday school".
While property taxes are sometimes based on reported sales values, these can be manipulated to reduce taxes.
"Physical challenges are sometimes based on this notion that if we all experience humiliation together, we'll feel bonded," he said.
Federal and state financial aid is sometimes based on population, but no direct correlation exists between completed census forms and more services.
He accuses campaigners of having an agenda which is "sometimes based on misinformation, misinterpretation, misspoke concerns," and says that their passion "sometimes weaves a story that maybe is based on fear mongering or actual non-fact".
"The Gate of Harmonious Interest" (2000) continues Ms. Fradkin's commentary on self-image, and how that image is sometimes based on the unrealistic model of a Barbie doll.
Frequent callers are defined nationally as people who make more than five calls in a month or 12 in three months, although figures provided by individual ambulance services are sometimes based on different definitions.
While Dr. Zarnowitz's lifelong studies pointed to shortcomings in economic forecasting, they did hold that it was not always fair to criticize the forecasters for their miscues, particularly because their predictions were sometimes based on faulty data about things that had already happened.
Finally, in the 16th century, English keyboard music, too, was sometimes based on a cantus firmus, or underlying melody, called "faburden of the chant," consisting not of the original plainchant but of its transposition to a lower pitch, as in the second voice of a fauxbourdon.
