Sentence examples for poor index from inspiring English sources

Kuznets fashioned the tools for the department to measure G.D.P., but, in the process, warned that the statistic provided a poor index of the country's well-being; "The welfare of a nation can…scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income," he wrote in a 1934 report.

Therefore, work achievement, was not a strong predictor of offspring sex ratios, suggesting that either maternal testosterone was not associated with sex ratio, or, more likely, that work achievement is a poor index of testosterone.

More rural infants were found in poor index tertile than urban infants.

The late onset, radiographically severe, and poor index subgroups of OA patients exhibited significant differences in haplotype distribution (Table 6).

These results are also consistent to our intuition about organismal complexity, whilst the number of genes is a poor index here.

We agree that the PaO2/FiO2 ratio is a poor index; our study showed it to vary with FiO2 in both spontaneously breathing and mechanically ventilated patients.

In addressing the challenge of excessive surface damage, inefficiency and poor indexing in BTA deep hole drilling, for which there are limited studies reported.

Model 5 had a high normed Chi square, poor indices and a very high AIC.

Indeed, poor indexing and inconsistent terminology have hampered efforts to identify studies that report original data on adverse effects [ 2- 5].

Other factors are that poor indexing within some databases may have impaired retrieval, and some journals may not be indexed or only partially indexed.

Although our search strategy was broad, important research or subgroups may still have been overlooked due to the poor indexing of qualitative research.