It therefore seems that calling, as predicted, is an honest and reliable indicator of genetic quality.
No number of polled opinions, Tancer insists, will ever add up to a reliable indicator of what consumers want.
Yet GDP is not the most reliable indicator of economic activity in China.
Mortality statistics are better and give a far more reliable indicator of how well we are dealing with a disease.
That mastery begins with gestures, because gestures are the most reliable indicator of your unconscious emotional state, and your intent.
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Measuring their ability to perform tasks based on the information is a more reliable indicator of its clarity and precision.
Electricity production, the most reliable indicator of Chinese economic activity, was up only 2.7% over the same month last year.
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The Labour Market Survey is a more reliable indicator of what's going on in the economy, including full-time students who want part-time work.
In the first case, the best, most reliable indicator of how an investor will behave (for instance, in volatile markets) is his past behavior.
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This gauge has been a reliable indicator for our investment team, as markets that enter the extreme territory have historically reverted back to their mean.
Nor is a currency's strength a reliable indicator of international confidence: despite the dollar's slide, few doubt that America's economic prospects, short- and medium-term, are better than Europe's.
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Though not featured in this article, the recent highs in the major averages were also confirmed by the weekly on-balance volume (OBV), which is also quite a reliable indicator.
It also says the EBC, with its planned focus on depth of knowledge and longer essays, will not be a reliable indicator for league tables, because of the subjectivity involved in marking such exams.
The most reliable indicator is undoubtedly electricity consumption.
Published in November, the review by former college principal Huw Evans said some employers and universities do not think that a grade C at GCSE English, Welsh and maths is a reliable indicator of literacy and numeracy skills.
If there really were such a simple and reliable indicator of future economic conditions, predicting the recession would have been easy, betting on the economy via the stock market would wither and we'd probably see an eyebrow derivatives market.
The Napa Valley Wine Auction, an annual event to raise money for area charities, has been a somewhat reliable leading indicator of economic health.
Equity strategists at Salomon Smith Barney point out that, in the past, tightening credit spreads have been a reliable leading indicator of rising share prices.
As a rule of thumb, the larger the company and the larger the buyback the more reliable the buyback is as an indicator of the future stock price.
If, as researchers have suggested, some schools in London have a majority of children being privately coached, then how reliable are school test results as an indicator of their teaching quality?
On its website is a note suggesting that a 2% annualised fall in its indicator over a six-month period, with more than half of the components worsening, provides a reliable though not perfect warning of recession.
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