Sensitive to charges of paternalism or even malpractice, many doctors are likely to hit the cautionary note harder than the hopeful one when they offer a prognosis, and to convey more ambiguous information and less direct advice than patients might actually want.
"In our experiments, we found that with ambiguous information, women set less ambitious goals," said Ms. Riley Bowles, who ran the study.
The business-school professors Itzhak Ben-David and John Doukas, in a study based on twenty years of trading by institutional investors, found that when there's a profusion of "ambiguous information" about stocks investors trade more frequently, not less.
Following both guidelines will make your requests less ambiguous which, in turn, improves the chances that you will find the information you seek.
Considering the DFI, it has been shown47 that the primary determinant of the magnitude of the DFI is participants' initial visual precision – the less ambiguous the number of visual flashes, the less influence of the cross-modal information.
Hence, they form less ambiguous correlations with other measures, are easier to interpret, and provide important additional information on more specific experiences of ASC.
On the basis of information currently available, the position of certain other Berliners is no less ambiguous.
Samples with ambiguous information were discarded (45 samples) and identified either by a time recurrence of less than three years without the event of metastasis or by a time recurrence above three years but below five years.
Subsequent events are less ambiguous.
Less ambiguous was the Bengals' final turnover.
This approach is less ambiguous than listing simply the year.
