Sentence examples for layman from inspiring English sources

But he says he is "a layman, maybe not even that" when it comes to insects.

A layman will tell you that all of the clues are there.

Most controversially of all, although he is a layman, Mr Mashai has let it be known that he is in direct contact with the occulted twelfth Shia imam, the Mahdi, and that, by extension, the government in which he serves enjoys divine favour.Mr Khamenei is in a bind.

It exposed the ways, most notably the overinterpreting of statistical significance in studies with small sample sizes, that scientific findings can end up being irreproducible or, as a layman might put it, wrong.Dr Ioannidis has been waging war on sloppy science ever since, helping to develop a discipline called meta-research (ie, research about research).

TO THE layman, the pricing of airline tickets can seem a mysterious art.

This means having parallel cables hanging from the pylons, some carrying AC and some DC.That does not sound too hard to a layman.

But Mr Rajan's report suggests that small banks could aggregate the demands of farmers up to a practical size".Just as it is counter-intuitive to steer in the direction of the skid", Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University once wrote, "it is difficult to persuade the layman" that the best solution to scarcity is a market price, which encourages supply and discourages demand.

A layman taking in the raging debates over financial stability, inflation, economic growth, and budget deficits, would say it's about money.

On others he isn't, on others we are unable to say for now, and on others he is useful whether or not the details turn out to be right.In my view, for example, one of the main contributions of the book is a mental framework, scrutable to the layman, for assessing how particular economic changes might influence the distribution of wealth.

To a layman, genes might seem obviously ineligible on the grounds that they are discovered, not invented.

A layman might not be able to tell the difference.