Those proclaiming the virtues of wind and solar should be compelled to reveal actual output data from these sources, the required back-up, and data on the actual reduction of carbon dioxide and other emissions when alternative sources are used.
That figure is based on the firm's 340, 000 U.S. business clients, representing 21 million U.S. workers, using the actual data of the number of people on business payrolls rather than surveys.
He knows this because he has actual data on sales (available from Amazon) and the sales rank, and he knows how to plot a regression line in Excel.
In order to design and run a successful clinical trial, it is crucial for the actual investigators to collect the data themselves and not rely on information gathered by other groups.
Zillow analyzed data on actual sales prices compared to asking prices, the number of days listings spent on Zillow and the percentage of homes on the market with a price cut, and ranked the 30 largest metro areas in the country to determine whether buyers or sellers have more negotiating power in a given market.
So perhaps the 0.5% is indicative of marketers relying on their own past experiences and plain old fashioned gut instincts as opposed to the actual data that is more than readily available.
After spending a lot of time looking at the actual data coming from the federal government, I actually wrote on the subject in 2007 after watching Bernanke on TV, and watching how his face was saying one thing and his words were saying another.
As such, the actual available capacity for data storage is less than what is listed on the products.
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When I began work on this paper in early October, I was skeptical that there could be actual manipulation of the data.
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This drop--coupled with the Dow Jones Industrial Average's decline of more than 100 points early in the day--is the latest evidence of the disconnect between consumer confidence gauges and actual economic data (see " False Notes On Confidence").
Both the actual data roaming and net neutrality orders are being challenged, by the way, on the sensible and likely successful legal theory that the FCC was never given authority from Congress to sink its teeth so deeply into the Internet economy.
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The OfCom study (and the first wave of that report which came out in November 2012) was based on consumer attitude, not actual data.
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