Sentence examples for crude indicator from inspiring English sources

Current filtering software can identify pornographic sites only by looking at the words they contain, which is a crude indicator.

A lot of work needs to be done, but it's less than many think, because GDP is actually a remarkably crude indicator.

For German politicians, cuts to sacred state subsidies and increases in tax revenues are a crude indicator that corruption is being tackled, however tentatively.

We also quantified the first component by tabulating the number of interaction elements each study employed, as a very crude indicator of the degree of interaction.

They warn, however, that the fertility of mouse pups born from the lab-grown sperm was a "crude indicator" of their health, and that subtle genetic changes in the sperm "could be pivotal for the wellbeing of subsequent generations".

"Volume is an indicator, but a very crude indicator, of the quality of care a patient may receive," said Dr. Don Nielsen, a senior vice president at the American Hospital Association in Chicago.

"Because charities are insufficiently open, we are on the verge of reaping an undesirable retribution, namely crude indicators of performance, such as league tables".

Adjustment for crude indicators of smoking and other factors left the results little changed.

Some of the factors associated with obesity given in this study, may be crude indicators of true risk factors.

We include relationship to household head and proportion of older in household as crude indicators of social support.

A dose-response relationship was found between crude indicators of trihalomethane level (chlorination X organic contamination) and colon cancer death.