"We must refocus our investment on the hard sciences, on getting men and women into space, on exploring low-Earth orbit and beyond, and not on political distractions that are extraneous to NASA's mandate," Cruz said in a statement earlier this year.
To get all this so wrong, and to put in so much that is extraneous, and then to leave out TS Eliot... Ah well, perhaps at least it will send people back to the novel, or make them open it for the first time.
Indeed in many cases according to Zumbo (1999), because of the fact that the test items contain sources of difficulty that are extraneous or irrelevant to the measured construct, the items in a test are biased.
The deal not only lumbered Rio with $38.7 billion in debt, forcing it into a recent rights issue and joint venture with BHP Billiton, but also left it struggling to find a buyer for the packaging division that was extraneous to its business.
Research has shown that reading linked text "entails a lot of mental calisthenics -- evaluating hyperlinks, deciding whether to click, adjusting to different formats -- that are extraneous to the process of reading," Carr wrote in "The Shallows".
Not only did she point out that signing off on dog sniffs that are extraneous to the mission of a given stop would create "an entitlement to search for drugs by using dogs, whenever anybody's stopped," but, responding to Anders' plea for leeway, she made a more profound point: "We can't keep bending the Fourth Amendment to the resources of law enforcement".
The boycott resolution divides the membership of the association by taking a political position that is extraneous to its statement of purpose, and impedes the "strengthening of relations among persons and institutions in this country and abroad devoted to such studies.
In its decision, the Court stated that Burger King had failed to act in good faith during contract negotiations by seeking to include standards and clauses that would engineer a default of the franchise agreement, allowing the company to limit the number of new Hungry Jack's branded restaurants and ultimately claim the Australian market as its own, a purpose that was extraneous to the agreement.
To further increase model efficiency and eliminate variables that were extraneous (i.e., nonconfounders, not correlated with both exposure and outcome), we included only covariates that were correlated with both exposure and outcome at p < 0.20.
Generic and specific instruments are applied to measure the self-reported health status of substance users; however, due to the subjective nature of health status self-reports, individuals from various groups may interpret the wording of the items in manners that are extraneous to the assessment, which means that items may be functioning differently [ 4].
