Few issuers are eager to be monitored closely, especially when monitoring is apt to result in downgrades, and so it is not surprising that ratings are seldom downgraded until long after public information has signaled an obvious deterioration in an issuer's probability of default".
Generally, infit greater than 1 is more of a problem than infit less than 1, since highly surprising or unexpected ratings that do not fit with the other ratings tend to be more difficult to explain and defend than overly predictable ratings.
While it comes as no surprise that a live competition show like "American Idol" would not benefit as much from delayed viewing, it is somewhat surprising how the ratings increases from DVR viewing have become so great that "Modern Family" can easily vault over its competition in the 18-to-49-year-old 18-to-49-year-old 18-to-49-year-old 18-to-49-year-old 18-to-49-year-old
The low agreement rates between participants for density ratings were surprising.
His team insists that there is nothing surprising about his low ratings, given the weight of expectations and the time it takes for reforms to pay off.
As rising interest rates make it more onerous to roll over debt, creditors may find a surprising deterioration in the ratings and value of their debt holdings.
A consistent finding is that very simple summary health ratings hold surprising predictive validity for health [ 30].
Perhaps it is hardly surprising, therefore, that supervisor ratings have rather low correlations with more objective criteria such as work samples or work output (Bommer, Johnson, Rich, Podsakoff, & Mackenzie 1995; Cook, 2009; Heneman, 1986).
The State of the Union is one of the rare events all the broadcast networks still cover, and it is not surprising that ABC led the ratings.
The ratings performance is surprising given that "Camp Rock," the Disney Channel musical starring the brothers, was the No. 1 cable telecast for 2008.
That Italy is keen on the idea is hardly surprising: pooling its poor credit ratings with others of higher standing would lower its borrowing costs and reduce the risk, albeit small, that it might have its financing cut off.
