To judge the impact of this clutch weighting properly, ESPN internally ran QBR calculation without that weighting – that is, counting all contributions the same regardless of the time/score situation.
There are many such powerful words that work by themselves for the writer, but beyond these there must be words and phrases the writer enriches artificially for the purpose of a single story, words that have that weighting only in that story, words that must be used, in short, like garlic.
Their claim is that weighting in favor of the highest-dividend-yielding stocks should outperform a cap-weighted index.
"Foley," the Irish Rep's current offering, has all that, weighting it down by the curse of familiarity.
The results show that weighting techniques can result in inappropriate weights for some indicators.
It is not obvious that weighting by population is a better choice than alternatives (like weighting by GDP).
It is well known that weighting in general tends to be inefficient when the weights are highly variable.
A part from understanding that "weighting" is an instrument of self-correction (that is, for adjusting findings to achieve representational demographic balances), I am not expert in the refinements of modern polling.
Some very intelligent people have argued that giving future generations less weight than the current generation is "ethically indefensible". Other equally intelligent people have argued that weighting generations equally leads to paradoxical and even nonsensical results.
Management experts say that weighting cuts toward voluntary buyouts, as AT&T has done, avoids many morale-destroying effects of involuntary layoffs, but gives a company less control over which and how many employees depart.
Interpretation of ECOSIM results suggested fewer taxa in common even on natural reefs and were affected by a lack of design alternatives and the possible inflation of Type I error that weighting by abundance may cause.
