Sentence examples for rationally assume from inspiring English sources

Market participants would rationally assume that every stock price is the true expected present value of future cash flows, with the appropriate rate of discount, and that those cashflows reflect fundamentals that everyone understands in the same way.

A less weak-minded adversary would rationally assume that ONETIMEPAD was the plaintext, and that we had sent our message unencrypted.

We might rationally assume that the majority of patients, particularly those with the severe chronic conditions which my model focuses on, are looking to improve their own health and self-sufficiency, minimize the caretaking burden on their families, and contribute towards research which would extend these benefits across the patient community.

Because it is a novel breast imaging modality, it is only rationally assumed that lesion size should be measured at the time of maximal contrast enhancement of the lesion, and that edges are defined as the end of the hyperechoic mass at that time.

These apparently conflicting results can be rationally explained, if we assume that passive films on Cr and Fe Cr alloys formed in the sulfuric acid solution are composed of an outer hydroxide layer with an n-type semiconductor property and of a p-type inner oxide layer.

Such long, steady housing price declines seem to defy both common sense and the traditional laws of economics, which assume that people act rationally and that markets are efficient.

"We have a very strong bias to assume others are acting rationally," she says.

While traditional economic theories assume that individuals act rationally and make optimal decisions without outside intervention, current policy interventions support behavioural theories of decision-making where sub-optimal choices occur due to limitations in human decision-making.

Both assume that individuals will act rationally, maximizing self-interest, but each works most efficiently under different conditions.

For rational choice theorists, history and culture are irrelevant to understanding political behaviour; instead, it is sufficient to know the actors' interests and to assume that they pursue them rationally.

Policies undergirding the American War on Drugs assume that drug offenders respond rationally to adjustments in sanction certainty and severity.