Sentence examples for good at estimating from inspiring English sources

AS a designer, Kein Cross is pretty good at estimating space, and when he saw the 18th-century courtyard house in Paris in an ad, he knew it was small — maybe 9 or 10 feet deep.

Indeed, the evidence suggests that employees are not good at estimating how long they are likely to live.Whatever the flaws of DC schemes, the world or at least the private sector is not about to return to DB plans.

People are not good at estimating things, he says, and no amount of new accounting rules and auditing will change the fact that estimates are fragile and easy to manipulate.Mr Lev's remedy is to separate company accounts into two pieces: one "core" and one "satellite".

And while there is no way to know for sure, of course, whether BP was just extraordinarily unlucky, there is much evidence that people in general are not good at estimating the true chances of rare events, especially when human error may be involved.

In those cases, both older and younger adults were equally good at estimating how their partner was feeling at a given moment.

"We believed adults and children would not be good at estimating the calorie values of foods and drinks nor the calorie expenditure of exercise.

This research made a good attempt at estimating the interrill erosion rate on the basis of aggregate stability from simple laboratory determinations.

If all players followed a fixed rational, consistent and non-deceptive strategy, computers might have a good shot at estimating the likely holdings of their competitors, and therefore winning.

The Gilespie algorithm was attempted for faster computation but was found to be good only at estimating the steady state solution.

Although there have been good attempts at estimating the totality of disease burden due to schistosomiasis at a global level [ 3], it is often difficult to translate these estimates into local communities, not least because of significant geographical heterogeneity of the disease set against other confounding factors.

So familiar have tremors become in Christchurch that locals are unnervingly good at instantly estimating the magnitude of an earthquake.