By James Surowiecki October 22, 2008 I realize I could post about this every day (and, come to think of it, maybe that's not a bad idea), and I know I've already written about it before, but the current stock-market volatility, not just in the U.S. but across the world, is at what I think you have to call nonsensical levels.
3 We did not control for Aboriginal status as although there were (very limited) data available, Aboriginal status is nonsensical as a household-level variable, though an important individual-level confounder, given that the smoking prevalence among Aboriginal Australians is more than twice that of non-Aboriginal Australians.
"UK troops in Helmand looking after 60% of the population but with 30% of the total force level is nonsensical," a senior British military official said.
None were regarded as producing nonsensical stories (i.e., at level 1; see Table 3).
The language he speaks at home, not baby talk exactly, something weirder, is an endlessly inventive cascade of alliteration, nonsensical rhymes, puns, running jokes, clashing diction levels and private references; quotation out of context can't do it justice.
When viewing either easy or hard-to-name real objects compared with nonsensical (silly) shapes (thereby controlling to some degree for common lower-level visual and sensorimotor processing), both adults and children showed greater activation in bilateral early visual and left lateral occipital object-related visual areas.
And the rules that exist at or below the atomic level are very strange and almost even nonsensical.
Mr Romney has a (frankly nonsensical) plan to set American defence spending at the arbitrary level of 4% of national wealth, whether military commanders have asked for that funding or not.
First, the notion of a cap on net migration levels – that is, the balance between arrivals and departures – is nonsensical, focusing on an arbitrary annual figure rather than on what the Government is trying to achieve (which remains unclear).
He employed scientific and mathematical concepts in ways that even an A-level student should have spotted as rubbish, but crammed the article with nonsensical - but authentic - quotes about physics and mathematics, by prominent French and American postmodern intellectuals.
