Sentence examples for crude rules from inspiring English sources

Armed with such pop-psychology, it's easy to convince ourselves we are emotionally literate when in fact we're just using crude rules of thumb to gloss over the complexities of the human psyche.

Nor is it the chancellor's fault if the unintelligent application of the euro zone's crude rules have, for now, reduced any chance of winning round the sceptical (and very constant) two-thirds majority in Britain who oppose euro entry although Mr Balls bullishly claimed a referendum could still be won if the economic tests were met.

Even so, in the first round these relatively crude rules based on Disruption Theory blindly predicted if new businesses would survive or fail with 94percentt accuracy and over 99percentt statistical confidence.

Also, as a crude rule of thumb, the closer the problem lies to our willies the less likely we are to bother with the doctor's surgery.

A crude rule of thumb is that every $100 billion of deficit reduction will cost close to a million jobs in the near term.

There's no hard boundary between the two – you can be a honker in the morning and a honked-at in the afternoon – but as a crude rule the first group tend to be much better off than the second.

Another way is for borrowers to use what the Mortgage Bankers Association describes as "a crude rule of thumb": add the current principal and interest payment (but not the amount in escrow) and subtract the new principal and interest payment to find the monthly saving.

Because it means that phones of the future using this chip could do things like advanced speech and face recognition using neural nets and deep learning locally, rather than requiring more crude, rule-based algorithms, or routing information to the cloud and back to interpret results.

"My own crude rule of thumb is a 50 50 split in terms of the influence of nature and that of nurture," he says.

As a crude rule of thumb, intended to be no more than a stimulus for more exact analyses, a substantial probability of adaptation may require at least one rescue mutation per generation, independently of the severity of the stress.

The idea is to do away with cruder, rule-based systems and use machine learning to negate false positives and give merchants more confidence accepting customers/transactions.