"The test of a good theory is that the consequences are numerous and accurate, " Mandelbrot says.
When the practice of managing up gets confused with promotion of self-interest, brown-nosing, manipulation, the gymnastics of corporate climbing, or other mind games, a good theory rapidly becomes twisted resulting in a false and dangerous reality.
Defensible deletion sounds good in theory, but the question becomes: how do we know what to delete?
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That sounds good in theory but is hard to spot in practice.
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"What looks good in theory is, in fact, pretty complicated to pull off in practice, " says Niel Golightly, a vice president for Ford of Europe.
Extending fertility treatment to older women sounds good in theory.
Hope is not a good investment theory.
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What's more, senior Whitehall officials have long worried that IDS's plan for a new Universal Credit could go the way of the health reforms - ie they sound good in theory but may prove bureaucratic, costly and unpopular in practice.
Everyone enjoys a good conspiracy theory.
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But they are good, in theory, for the economy.
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Another former U.K. rate-setter and arch-dove, David Blanchflower, has pointed out that even if nominal-GDP targeting was a good idea in theory, it is a bad idea in practice because nominal GDP is hard to measure and prone to large revisions.
The secondary headteachers union suggests the curriculum is in theory a good idea but in many ways impractical.
Consider all other possibilities and use historical analysis, market theory and good data-crunching to eliminate as many others as you can.
However, the data were not sufficiently good to examine this theory.
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The judge reinstated the strategies, meaning that, for now, town-hall planners must once again consider them when dealing with planning applications: good news, in theory, for CALA and others.
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In particle physics, sound-bite explanations are much harder: wave-particle duality, quantum mechanics, general relativity and string theory make good mathematical sense, or so I am told, but they generally defy translation into English.
Mr. Berger clearly subscribes to the political theory that a good offense is the best defense.
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Your theory is as good as mine, but probably not as good as Matt Dillon's.
This makes it (in theory) a good benchmark against which to measure their bonuses and other perks.
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In theory this is good not just for them, but for the economy, because pension money will pour into capital markets.
In theory this sounds good to Lorenzo Langford, Atlantic City's mayor.
Allardyce clearly does not adhere to the theory that a good Cup run builds a team's confidence and has a beneficial knock-on effect on their league form.
Europe has a good pipeline network, which in theory is open to all.
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Response to gaze is reckoned to be a good measure of the development of theory of mind in human children.
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One reason I think public charters are a good idea (at least in theory) is that they can help traditional public schools learn through experimentation.
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