The first thing to say about Oxfam's numbers is that they present a very conservative picture.
Many high streets have also seen smaller chains open for business since the start of the financial crisis, so the figures give a conservative picture of how many are now on the country's high streets.
It's certainly the moral here, and there's nothing so very wrong with that, other than this essentially conservative picture had dressed itself up as something a lot more daring.
It has to be conceded there's a fair bit of sugar in the mix, and finally it turns out to be an oddly conservative picture, less daring and perhaps less romantic than we were promised.
The final compilation of observed electron to proton temperature ratios as a function of shock velocity gives an accurate, conservative picture of the state of our knowledge and the avenues we need to pursue to make progress in our understanding of the relation between the velocity of a shock and the degree of equilibration.
The FHILS system, modeled on Forbes magazine's Mutual Fund Survey, tries to get a conservative picture of performance by grading the more than 150 letters tracked by The Hulbert Financial Digest on a curve based on how they do in both bull markets and bear markets, adjusted for risk.
Anyone coming from abroad for the first time is generally bewildered at the contrast between what he actually sees and the ultra conservative picture often portrayed in the western media.
Thus, one may argue that particularly the findings on gender and associated behavioural problems represent a rather conservative picture.
Indeed, the chart below depicts a conservative picture of the problem, as the physician cost data graphed on this chart is from the government's Medicare Economic Index.
Employing a null model that is based upon positive selection free parameters estimated from comparative genomic data rather than a null model based upon pseudogenes (which these are not) is expected to give a more realistic (less overly conservative) picture of statistical significance, even though this has not traditionally been employed in evolutionary studies.
