Successful investors spend a lot of time questioning popular assumptions which drive markets.
And he said the inequality agenda should focus on "need" and not "outdated ideology or assumptions which may no longer be true".
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That outcome, however, was based on certain assumptions which Mr Netanyahu, since he came to power last year, has been busily trampling on.
The numbers are small because they are the small residual of calculations involving some other, extremely large, numbers, over long time periods, subject to assumptions which will almost certainly turn out to be wrong, in one direction or another.
For example, if robotic devices can restore sight or mobility, it may be necessary to redefine what disability is which might, in turn, conflict with the assumptions on which existing disability-rights legislation is based.
At the heart of every complicated strategy are a few critical assumptions upon which those strategies turn.
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The assumptions on which the existence of dark matter are based will thus rest on stronger foundations.
That is why new and better observations are needed to improve the fundamental assumptions on which the models are based.
He said the government was "obviously" doing contingency planning - but had to operate on a "plausible set of assumptions", which would be set out by the Office for Budget Responsibility on Tuesday.
Hammer makes two assumptions, both of which are wrong.
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When in fact the very assumptions in the models which lead to our concluding that there is a problem that needs a solution are that markets, globalisation and yes, even capitalism, are part of the solution not the problem.
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The quality of that dialogue will be improved, first, if the Bank supplies the committee with the technical assumptions and forecasts on which its actions are based and, second, if the committee is equipped with a staff qualified to assess the submissions.
The models produce projections or scenarios which are no more accurate than the assumptions, algorithms and data , often of poor quality, which were put into them.
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The bias begins by making optimistic assumptions about the pace at which new technology can be developed and integrated.
Unfortunately, there is no consensus on which methods and assumptions are most valid when calculating forward costs, especially costs incurred in the distant future.
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The California Department of Insurance found that the proposed rate increase was based on unreasonably high assumptions about the rate at which medical costs are increasing.
Hubert Dreyfus, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkley, argues that artificial intelligence will fail because it makes assumptions about the mind, which are not feasible.
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Using the gloomiest assumptions about the extent to which Asian economies reduce their imports and increase their exports, Goldman Sachs thinks that America's growth rate will fall by 0.4 percentage points next year, Europe's by 0.3%, but Japan's by well over 1%.
The case against Google rests on certain assumptions about how the markets in which it operates function.
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And these estimates, which rest on contentious assumptions and calculations, are necessarily tentative since the contracts are so long.
The discovery, reported by scientists at Newcastle University, overturns previous assumptions about type 2 diabetes, which was thought to be a lifelong illness.
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There were serious doubts about his ability to do this, however, and when Mr Primakov produced a budget in December it contained assumptions about help from foreign creditors which were widely regarded as unrealistic.
Their work is influenced by politics and patrons, regional assumptions and religious beliefs, all of which jostles with the science in determining what a map looks like and what it is used for.
The case against Google rested on certain assumptions about the functioning of the markets in which Google operates.
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The culprit is extremely low interest rates on high-quality corporate bonds, which play a critical role in assumptions for calculating pension plan obligations.
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His crusades against crime and quality-of-life annoyances served his larger ambition, which was to root out the assumptions that had built New York into a welfare city-state always at the edge of crisis.
The draft spends most of its time on the details of government spending and revenues, which they must estimate using the flawed assumptions Congress gives them.
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After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives.
Still, some mutual funds, hedge funds and private equity funds have at times simply seemed to use subjective assumptions in figuring out the value for assets for which there is no market.
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