Under the weighted kappa method more weight is given to extreme disagreement (e.g., a physician labeled low cost under one method and high cost under the other) and less weight to less extreme disagreement (e.g., low cost under one method and average under the other).
More weight is given to it because it's "what he/she REALLY thinks", said Kinsley.
A new generation latching on to a signifier of an identity that formerly held much more weight is not unusual.
In television as in most industries, the higher you are in the ranks, the more weight is given to your opinion.
So much more weight is now given to what is said inside an organization, because it can be heard outside as well, through social media.
But one way small energy consumers can gain more weight is by joining a buying group, and some in Maine are getting together to do just that.
Even in academic analyses, where more weight is granted to the African side of these relations, commentary rarely goes beyond the state level.
We compare the alignments produced by the matchers and give less weight to the matchers producing mutually similar alignments, whereas more weight is given to those matchers whose alignment is distinct and rather unique.
Alongside elections and partisanship, much more weight is given to the role of voluntary organizations through which men and women together have long engaged the national discourse on matters like slavery, temperance, industrial reform, social welfare, environmental protection, civil liberties and civil rights.
By using an Anderson Darling statistical test, suitable for extreme events because more weight is put on the tails (than in comparable tests such as Kolmogorov-Smirnov for instance), with the null hypothesis that decadal HWMId maxima are GEV, we demonstrate that the null hypothesis cannot be rejected in any location (P-value > 0.1 everywhere, see Supplementary Fig. 11a d).
The Democrats have also passed a long list of lesser bills, from investments in green technology to making it easier for women to sue for sex discrimination.A criticism with more weight is that American government is good at solving acute problems (like averting a Depression) but less good at confronting chronic ones (like the burden of entitlements).
