Its size makes EA a reasonable proxy for the industry as whole.
Petrol consumption used to serve as a reasonable proxy for road use, satisfying the "user pays" principle for road funding.
Also, isn't the ability to do this stuff a reasonable proxy for finding people who can do real mathematics?
It's not a perfect measure, but the OECD calculation of the share of government social expenditure in GDP (pdf) is a reasonable proxy.
These are increasingly used by elite universities, in the belief that race is a reasonable proxy for social disadvantage, which it may not be.
That category, supplemented by separate ones for employment discrimination and labor arbitration, encompasses 1,447 decisions since 1953, and provides a reasonable proxy for "business cases".
In 2006, researchers at the LENA Foundation recorded the conversations of three hundred and twenty-nine families, who were divided into groups by the mothers' education level, a reasonable proxy for social class.
Overall though, it is true that in most places growing income disparities are a reasonable proxy for growing status competition.Economists have long argued that inequality is a much less important problem than poverty.
"The isolated, out-of-context statements quoted by plaintiffs suggest at most that discrimination based on homosexual conduct is, in certain contexts, a reasonable proxy for discrimination against gays and lesbians," Mr. Cooper wrote to Judge Walker.
If the Blackstone Group's third-quarter results can serve as a reasonable proxy for the private equity industry, then its brethren will have a lot of good news to share with investors.
To examine the likelihood of innovative disruption, we require a reasonable proxy.
