Sentence examples for measure the tendency from inspiring English sources

To measure the tendency to delay, those researchers developed an experimental situation in which children are shown an attractively wrapped present and told that it is for them but that it will be set aside while they work on a puzzle.

The task is designed to measure the tendency to override an intuitive response that is incorrect and to engage in further reflection that leads to the correct response.

This paper introduces the population concentration index to measure the tendency of minority population agglomeration or distribution at the level of districts and counties in the whole country.

In this analysis we use three metrics (phylogeny-wide signal, node-specific signal and Blomberg's K statistic) to measure the tendency of related species to resemble each other more than they resemble species drawn at random.

Synthetic lethal screens [ 7] measure the tendency for genes to compensate the loss of other genes.

To measure the tendency to overload, the 'Tendency to Overload Questionnaire' (TOQ) short form will be used [in press].

As a result, they interspersed their tests of bias with various cognitive measurements, including the S.A.T. and the Need for Cognition Scale, which measures "the tendency for an individual to engage in and enjoy thinking".

This vector, which is proportional to the magnitude of the charge (instead of the mass of a particle), measures the tendency of the charge's axis of rotation to align itself in the direction of an external magnetic field.

(Beta measures the tendency of an investment to go up or down, relative to the market — in this case the S.& P. 500-stock index. So a beta of more than 1 implies that if the S.& P. 500 were to rise or fall 5percentt, for example, that investment would rise or fall even further).

That instrument measures "the tendency to engage in self-deceptive enhancement".

The network assortativity measures the tendency of nodes with similar degrees to be connected.