Afterward, when faced with distraction, the volunteers proved better at completing tasks involving looking for target numbers mixed into a series of distracting letters that quickly flashed on a screen.
Callers backing Peter Brame ended up wrongly voting for his rival Carolynne Good when their phone-in numbers became mixed up on screen.
Yet the picture is more mixed than these negative numbers might suggest.
Trading in these options was mixed given that roughly equal numbers of the calls were purchased and sold.
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This week, there's been a mixed bag of interesting news numbers, from T-Mobile's New York event and the company's new perspective on the phone network business, to San Francisco (again) for the Games Developers Conference.
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Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett this morning took a look at the latest numbers, and finds a mixed picture.
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When you parse the numbers, the outlook is mixed.
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While the numbers for the quarter were mixed at best, the company made some upbeat comments on the prospects for advertising on its Weibo micro-blogging platform that were well received by the Street.
Investors have mixed views as to the meaning of the nonfarm payroll numbers and the possible policy repercussions.
The last set of economic numbers to come out of China gave a mixed picture of the recovery in Asia's largest economy.
The numbers, however, present a somewhat more mixed verdict.
The last set of economic numbers to come out of China gave a mixed picture of the recovery in Asia's largest economy, adding to concerns that the government could become stricter on the property market in response to a pickup in house prices.
The monthly survey by accountants PKF showed a mixed picture for the industry across Scottish cities, with tourist numbers down in Inverness and Edinburgh.
Over in the European numbers for the same thing we have capital share, labour share, mixed income and taxes minus subsidies.
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They match to the BEA numbers as labour share being compensation of employees, taxes minus subsidies are the same of course, mixed income is proprietors income and everything else is part of the capital share.
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