Writing in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani called the novel "a thoroughly lackadaisical performance — trite, implausible and decidedly unfunny".
What's utterly implausible in Hepburn's performance is the backstory; MacLaine would have been persuasive as the former Lula Mae Barnes and Doc Golightly's fugitive wife.
Well, now we know why the author of this much gossiped about, heavily marketed new book wanted to remain anonymous: "O: A Presidential Novel" is a thoroughly lackadaisical performance — trite, implausible and decidedly unfunny.
However, in both experiments, validity and plausibility were used as within-subjects factors and we demonstrated that stock-brokers show a decrement in performance with implausible compared to the plausible inferences, whereas the control group was not affected by the conclusions' plausibility.
Meadows perpetuates a lazy and faintly repellent stereotype, and the resulting performance is, inevitably, implausible and sometimes embarrassing.
Instead he reinforced it emphatically, with a performance that would have been implausible even as a nightmare.
He has a gravity that allows him to sell the most implausible science-fiction hokum, making you realize that performance as much as writing makes this kind of thing work.
Yes Christie's presser was a "tour de force performance" but was it based on implausible deniability?
Overestimation of the discriminative performance due to this bias seems implausible, because these analyses showed little change in the AUC values for each model.
However, it seems implausible that encoding efficacy, and thus the effect on performance, would not depend on the direction of coupling.
