Sentence examples for unreliable measures from inspiring English sources

As the Vickers commission put it, "the supposed 'risk weights' turned out to be unreliable measures of risk: they were going down when risk was in fact going up".

One major limitation currently with studying street level urban design qualities for walkability is the often inconsistent and unreliable measures of streetscape features across different field surveyors even with costly training due to lack of more objective processes, which also make large scale study difficult.

Critics also want the state to stop over-relying on the FCAT because it is unfair to teachers, whose pay and job security are tethered to scores that the resolution calls "inadequate and often unreliable measures".

Single measures of a trace point which deviated from the mean for more than twice the standard deviation were regarded as unreliable measures and excluded.

Unknown or unreliable measures, such as stress or mental health, will always exist.

The phenotypic data obtained from subjects who reported at more than one time point were checked for consistency, and unreliable measures were discarded.

In imperial contexts, language is a notoriously unreliable measure of cultural independence.

Teachers' unions are right to resist any increase in the weight of this unreliable measure.

Twitter is an unreliable measure of influence, but Kardashian has nearly 16 million followers, putting her ninth in the world, three places behind President Obama.

The union also attacked the idea of basing pay increases on student performance, which union officials say is an unreliable measure that can fluctuate from day to day.

They are, in many cases, driven by a conviction that a child's performance on a standardized test is an inadequate, unreliable measure of that child's knowledge, intelligence, aptitude, diligence, and character — and a still more unreliable measure of his teachers' effort, skill, perseverance, competence, and kindness.