By contrast, the more complex National Assessment of Educational Progress test is designed to study average performance.
The average performance for years with Democrats elected is dragged down by two exceptional years.
Cowles calculated the average performance for the 16 firms was 1.4 below the market average.
That one data point tilts the whole reading on average performance of new issues.
According to Morningstar, a research company, Morgan Stanley's funds carry above-average fees and produce below-average performance.
The results were ranked relative to the average performance on those tests for the participants' age group.
The size characteristic only defines about 90 percent of the average performance over the past 3 years.
What must gall other airlines about Southwest is that its reputation for friendly service masks average performance.
You can be sure that every executive at IBM took notice, especially the ones with below average performance.
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In other words, we evaluate ourselves based on our best performance but we evaluate others based on their average performance.
Just 109 companies managed to go public in 1990, but they have delivered an average performance to date of 709%.
For the market as a whole, the average performance for companies that beat earnings estimates was a gain of 3.26%.
According to Eurekahedge, a data provider, the average performance fee for funds of funds was 6.5% in 2009, down from 10% in 2007.
The all-above-average performance-appraisal process may be the most costly and damaging.
Among the 259 companies that debuted in 1991 and the 415 that went public in 1992, the average performance has been roughly a third of that.
The second-ranked airline in terms of overall quality was low-cost airline Jet Blue, which posted better than average performance in terms of on-time arrivals, mishandled bags and customer complaints.
Using three-year rolling-average performance as a measure, he discovered that, of the funds that beat the average for six consecutive years, only just over half did so again the year after.
They are going to not give you average performance, but give you above-average performance because you're going to have a performance of your investments, whether they're stocks, bonds, international or what have you, that are way above average, not mediocre.
In contrast to the better-than-average performance of the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states, when examining the states where economic mobility is suffering, a new trend emerges: All nine of the states highlighted by Pew a underperforming against the national average fall south of the Mason Dixon line.
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He is not a bad coach and he has copped the blame for a pretty average Wales performance.
Within 5 years, though, stock values regress and reflect the average group performance.
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In dollar terms, losing positions in that case would outweigh winners, even though the average annual performance of the fund is very high.
The detail of Sainsbury's better-than-average trading performance for the 14 weeks to 5 January confirm the big trends in retailing and consumer spending.
When small-caps beat large-caps in January, the average historical performance for the entire year has been more than 19.0% versus 11.8% for large-caps.
You might not win a silver orator award, but you can still take an awful presentation and spin it into an above average personal performance.
Measuring average stockmarket performance, however, may obscure the most important details.
When performance is measured against the first day's closing price, our entire universe of new issues has an 81% average gain and an average relative performance of just 86.
Of course, this old adage is based on the average monthly performance for the stock market, and a quick Google search will provide you with a large number of opinions about why you should or should not follow the advice in 2012.
On average, the performance of the index around hurricane landfall dates is worse after major events like Hurricane Katrina.
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