Most marketers and customer intelligence (CI) pros tend to lump together most types of customer data.
Kagan says that part of the problem is that people lump together America's challengers abroad as the Brics.
For one thing, simple counts of crashes lump together rear-end hits that damage cars but not people with more dangerous right-angle crashes.
Thus you lump together clear opposites, obfuscating the reality of the issue.
This is often done in such a way as to lump together all the Republican subdivisions, or all the Democratic ones, into single, like-thinking units.
As for the rising wave of laws and regulations designed to combat meanness among students, they are likely to lump together minor slights with major offenses.
Those two worlds aren't ones we'd necessarily lump together.
There is not much incentive for individual growers to sacrifice quantity for quality because their grapes are sold by weight to agents who lump together fruit from dozens or hundreds of individual growers.
The same revaluation must be applied both to the numbers and to the spaces between them, lest the numbers all lump together at one end of the scale, followed (or preceded) by the spaces.
Perhaps most hopeful of all, the first studies of the results show signs of a shift away from identity politics, in which voters lump together by caste or religion to back one of their own.
Grundy, a the University of Texas Southwestern cardiologist who co-wrote the U.S. cholesterol guidelines, has argued that increasingly, clinical trials must use endpoints that lump together various kinds of heart problems if they have a hope of proving the benefits of drugs.
And part of what happens is that people get so frustrated with politics that they just get fed up and they kind of lump government together with politics.
Most agencies, however, mistakenly lump the two together under one banner, thinking that new business is a version of account management.
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Snooty outsiders, both commentators and policymakers, tend to lump all this together.
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Lump them all together and the difference is highly statistically significant.
While we like to lump all charities together when we talk about them, the amount of funds raised and assets held from one charity to the next vary wildly.
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The big statistics argument is whether it's proper to lump all three studies together.
For instance, three-colour language systems, which lump red and yellow together, generally exclude whitish yellow from that category as does the model.
Some analysts lump all southern economies together, when they face distinct problems.
Just as it would be reductive to claim that all foreign writings about France are reductive, so you cannot lump all French intellectuals together as jargon-spouting frauds, an assumption that at times seems behind the approach of Messrs Sokal and Bricmont.
Heart studies often lump all of these factors together to increase the likelihood that they will be statistically significant.
He popped an ivory lump slightly larger than a pill together with a magnet into a tube with metal plugs at either end.
However, it is a mistake to lump the NHS's many parts together as an embattled ship fighting off the storms with a determination to remain unchallenged.
In my research, I've also found that fewer than 20% of nascent business owners intend to introduce a new product or service, and a simple desire to be your own boss is as frequent a motivation as a new business idea. (I'll leave the policy implications of subsidizing the nonpecuniary aspects of business ownership for another discussion.) Broad-based programs lump all of these very different businesses together.
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