Sentence examples for imperfect indicator from inspiring English sources

But border officials acknowledge that apprehensions alone are an imperfect indicator.

Growth rates during an election year are a good but imperfect indicator of electoral performance.

It's an imperfect indicator of future performance, of course, but it's usually the best data available.

Obesity was included as an objective, although imperfect, indicator of physical health.

For at least three reasons, this is an imperfect indicator for the presence of immigrants on the labor market.

FICO, one of the biggest credit scoring systems, tends to be an imperfect indicator of creditworthiness, so Neo's underwriting technology assesses realtime credit risk based on numerous resources, refinancing loan applicants to as little as 6percentt rates.

Taken together, these data support the conventional paradigm that peripheral CD4 T cell populations are imperfect indicators of an individual's susceptibility to TB, and instead indicate that early T cell depletion by SIV (or perhaps HIV) that depletes both peripheral and mucosal CD4 T cells may predict risk of reactivation.

Polls such as this are imperfect indicators of the intellectual preoccupations of the age, of course.

Small and minor recalls are just two things that make them imperfect indicators of vehicle safety, even though recalls can teach us a lot about major trouble spots.

They are imperfect indicators of the more specific skill mismatch, whereby workers' actual skills are measured against the specific skill requirements of the job (Levels et al. 2014).

Earlier today, Y Combinator President Sam Altman posted the type of numbers about which he gets asked "a lot" — calling them (humbly and probably rightly) "very imperfect indicators of success".