Sentence examples for flawed gauge from inspiring English sources
The unemployment rate, a source of some reassurance, is a flawed gauge: It is based on a survey of households and includes self-employed people, but it does not count people who have given up looking for work.
Like a Petri dish of demand, the conference was a good, if flawed, gauge of which brands could generate "buzz".
That meant that the team had to rely on older, potentially flawed studies to gauge the "normal" rate of carpal tunnel syndrome in the general population.
Q: Did photos on [skeptic] Anthony Watts Webb site showing official temperature gauges in flawed locations like parking lots inspire you to get involved in the debate over the accuracy of the weather stations ?
Re "What Death-Penalty Errors?", by James Q . Wilson(Op-Ed, July 10), about the study that I led about error rates in capital cases: Mr. Wilson suggests that outcomes on retrial gauge the seriousness of the many flawed death verdicts we found but says we don't know what occurred at retrial after the "great majority" of state post-conviction reversals.
What the "experts" are missing in gauging the trajectory of Harbaugh's success reflects the same flawed thinking that believes that going from coaching in the NFL to college is regressing.
But some of us at Communispace, a consumer collaboration agency, wondered whether prediction markets would provide a viable alternative to the flawed (and frankly boring) concept test survey, maximum difference test, and other tools used to gauge consumer preferences.
Sure, it's a semi-useful gauge of the broader economy, but it's inherently no more valid than any other flawed market yardstick.
Is intelligence inherently flawed?
"That's fundamentally flawed".
