"It's all an inexact science," Grizzlies coach David Fizdale said.
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Like predicting the weather, economic forecasting is an inexact science.
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But even the polling of Iowa caucus voters is inexact.
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The relations between the forms are inexact but intuitively convincing.
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And then the law runs the risk of being inexact.
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Indeed, the maps have been long been viewed as inexact.
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There are precedents, albeit inexact ones, for such a scenario.
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The answer, of course, is an inexact combination of the two.
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Taking measurements is "an inexact science," he acknowledged to the newspaper.
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Measuring the paralyzing impact of winter storms is an inexact science.
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Judging comedy writers in a foreign culture was an inexact process.
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Johnson's remarks were inexact, but he almost surely wasn't being deceitful.
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Capsules are easier, but are not regulated, so dosing is inexact.
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The historical parallels to F.D.R. and 1938, while inexact, are intriguing.
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Similarly, distinguishing causation from correlation in social policy is an inexact science.
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Unfortunately, treatment of prostate cancer remains an inexact science under present methods.
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Plus, turnout modeling for Democratic primaries in Georgia is an inexact science.
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Yes, everything comes much more easily now, this inexact language of yours.
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Despite countless models and predictions, bracketology has always been an inexact science.
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Her relationship with Morgan Marquis-Boire was confusing, inexact, and fluctuated over time.
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And even an inexact forecast provides more insight than no forecast at all.
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But they conceded that trying to prevent more quakes was an inexact science.
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But it's an inexact science, and there are many battles won and lost.
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Experts, though, told me that battery life and maintenance is an inexact science.
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According to addiction experts, however, predicting who's at risk is an inexact science.
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What's more, Morse said, the 24-day figure could have been based on inexact data.
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Executive producer Melissa James Gibson told EW that the Trump comparisons are a little inexact.
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For instance, the number of head turns made by a fetus is an inexact measure.
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Calculating exact job deficits (or gains) from trade deals is an inexact science at best.
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Comparison to arak, its cousin in the Levant, or raki, the Turkish equivalent, was inexact.
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It's an inexact science, especially with intangible concepts like "vision" and "staying power" included for consideration.
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Merely saying someone is "evil" seems utterly unenlightened and inexact, and it doesn't provide much closure.
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Right now, the Fed raises or lowers interest rates to influence macroeconomic policy—an inexact tool.
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Zipfian projections are inexact, especially far down the table, but the curve seems to hold broadly.
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Inexact language about where the money would go, she said, is one reason for her opposition.
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But Vox Media is not a public company, and valuing its stock is an inexact science.
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He likens the process to cooking (although not all their ingredients are edible), another inexact science.
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It'll also inexact because some teachers may not know about or not apply for the deduction.
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But this is an inexact science and can quickly frustrate potential buyers when suggestions are irrelevant.
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The parallels to subprime mortgage lending are inexact; the mortgage market, for example, dwarfs auto lending.
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Indeed, the Warren news teaches us that genetic ancestry testing is an inexact but powerful political instrument.
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Even in more developed regions, distinguishing between Polish and, for instance, Russian heritage is inexact at best.
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The analogy is inexact, but for comparison America's stockmarket returned an annual 5.6% over the past 50 years.
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They were mind-expandingly right in their synoptic vision, if frequently inexact and sometimes mistaken in their specifics.
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Asked Friday whether he was still proud to claim ownership of the shutdown, Trump offered an inexact response.
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Though he had no discernible tremors in his arms, he made flailing gestures that looked loose and inexact.
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As a method for rendering critical judgments, the referee card system is intriguing, but also inexact and unsatisfying.
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This sort of grouping can be simplistic and historically inexact, but as a strategy, it has its uses.
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The targeted marketing business until then had been largely left alone by regulators because it was so inexact.
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To be sure, predicting the performance of KHL players in the far stronger NHL is a highly inexact science.
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Imparting belief is an inexact science, but Southgate made clear much lay in deep preparation and in dispelling ghosts.
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Photograph by Victor J. Blue for The New Yorker Up close, the work is wet, improvisatory, and deeply inexact.
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The task, while inexact, has made stars out of people like pioneering sabermetrician Bill James and FiveThirtyEightfounder Nate Silver.
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It was a delicious and inexact emulation, a spontaneous salad tart, and somehow it was big enough to feed six.
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Ambiguity has always made pain assessment an inexact science for health care providers, which in turn frustrates the sufferers themselves.
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Her new music video is amazing, her stage presence is incomparable, and her command of her own lyrics is…inexact.
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What in the World Indians have long practiced the willfully inexact science — some would call it an art — of jugaad.
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"The perception that there's weakness in the Italian banking system is inexact," Padoan said in an interview with RAI state television.
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Determining why certain groups of people are shorter or taller than others remains an inexact science owing to so many variables.
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"I'm warning the board members who are tempted to listen to inexact information and could harm the company's interests," Royal said.
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That said, he's the first to admit that social science can be fuzzy and inexact, particularly when it comes to race.
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By showing the full scope of polling results, the media can demonstrate to its audience that polling is an inexact science.
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And no sane developer wants to add the nebulous, inexact art of comedy to the already unpredictable nature of game development.
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There are two possibilities: one is that the whistleblower was a bit inexact in referring to a word-for-word transcript.
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Indeed, the effort to inject some statistical science into the inexact art of choosing players hasn't prevented teams from mis-evaluating prospects.
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Models are inexact in their descriptions of the entire state of the atmosphere and ocean at the start time of the model.
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He would direct a production of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," with the title character a provocative but inexact stand-in for President Trump.
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He has at times enthused about good-natured restaurants with inexact kitchen standards, like Sammy's Roumanian Steakhouse, on the Lower East Side.
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The work is dangerous — five patrollers and snow scientists have died in inbounds avalanches in the past decade — and it is inexact.
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But getting a precise measurement requires essentially doing the same thing over and over again, which results in an inexact spread of values.
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An "hour" in the Middle Ages was defined as an inexact space of time to be allotted either to religious or business duties.
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Limitations: Some researchers argue that applying computation to psychiatry and neuroscience broadly presents challenges, particularly with data and conclusions being inexact and inconsistent.
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The main reason not to overreact to the poll is that it is only one poll, and polling is a difficult, inexact science.
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While the comparison is certainly inexact, what's going on with analysts and Biden reminds me of Trump's 2016 primary campaign to a degree.
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This is, of course, a most inexact science, with no one-size-fits-all formula for players who come in all shapes and sizes.
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In reality, threading the pelt with wire, stuffing it full of cotton balls and modeling clay and sewing it up is frustrating and inexact.
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One is that the whistleblower was being inexact in referring to a "word-for-word" transcript, and we already have the document in question.
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The futuristic surveillance equipment employed by M.I.5 is, by twenty-first-century standards, inexact and clunky, and so big it requires its own room.
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Each side cites scientific evidence to support its slaughtering methods, but measuring the level of suffering an animal experiences is an inexact science at best.
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Predicting future trade is, of course, an inexact science, as is predicting toll income, and Pakistan's ambitious targets could unravel if its improved security situation deteriorates.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. Part of the magic of football is that the route to the top is a magnificently inexact science.
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The process is maddeningly inexact, though advanced video and data analysis — not simply parsing statistics — can now give a more accurate picture of a prospect's skills.
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While it's down from nearly 1,000 the day before, it is inexact, progress has been slow, and the many days of uncertainty are adding to the stress.
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But many lawmakers have grown frustrated with what they see as an inexact answer from the administration on what would constitute an act of war in cyberspace.
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Census figures are somewhat inexact in Armenia, a small country in the south Caucasus, but they show that at least 220,350 people emigrated in the last decade.
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The number, of course, is inexact, as obviously no direct measure of all the billions of stars and other objects in the Milky Way could be taken.
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On a brisk winter's evening, the dish provides a hint of summer heat and a small, if inexact, introduction to the joys of a complicated and delicious cuisine.
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Jeff Sessions for making false statements or committing perjury to Congress during his confirmation hearing for attorney general in part because of the inexact wording of the questions.
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The number will remain inexact, partly because some victims are likely to have been lost at sea and also because many of the retrieved bodies were badly decomposed.
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Parallels between reactionary trends now and those of the thirties are inexact, of course, and can be untrue to the facts of both eras, at least in America.
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The compensation programs for priestly sexual abuse are comparatively inexact: they involve weighing intangibles to determine, first, what happened, and then what sum of money represents appropriate compensation.
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Estimating that level is obviously an inexact science, but its worth noting that the two biggest months for U.S. crude arrivals in Asia this year were April and June.
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But getting millions of farmers and ranchers to alter how they work would require significant investment - and monitoring carbon reductions from soil use remains an inexact science, experts admitted.
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Genetic testing is an inexact science with real consequences How Cats made Andrew Lloyd Webber the king of the Broadway spectacle Eggnog, the holiday season's most divisive drink, explained
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Figuring out exactly who is running under the Sanders banner is a bit of an inexact science — many politicians, of course, embrace some parts of Sanders's message but not others.
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During his lifetime, Selye published hundreds of articles about stress and founded the International Institute for Stress in Canada, turning this previously inexact descriptor into an object of scientific inquiry.
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It is a slightly inexact application of Pete Palmer's concept of linear weights, which is a process of assigning point values to various statistics so they can be properly compared.
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FiveThirtyEight came up with some interesting stats, which you should take with a decent helping of salt, since analyzing why one candidate wins over another is often an inexact science.
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Defining overvaluation for bonds is an inexact science, but over the past 65 years 10-year U.S., Japanese, German and UK yields have broadly tracked nominal growth rates in these countries.
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Without opening up her brain to take a sample of the tumor, they couldn't be sure, though, they told her – one of many frustratingly inexact answers she got during her illness.
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Juries and the processes they use to reach verdicts are parameterized, but a trial is nonetheless all about convincing those juries of something that is inexact and subjective at its core.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads There is something about the sexual act that Nadine Faraj gets exactly right in her inexact, amorphous blending of bodies engaged in flagrant erotic intercourse.
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With executions, the science was often inexact and the application difficult, and when it went wrong the electric chair or the gas chamber could easily become a distinctive kind of torture.
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This sort of thing happens a lot because ancestry DNA testing — and genetic testing in general — is an inexact science that's prone to errors throughout almost every step of the process.
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The figures are inexact because such traffic is not closely monitored, but the Irish Road Haulage Association thinks more than 80% of road freight to and from the continent passes through Britain.
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Of course, clock management is an inexact science and all coaches have been second-guessed at one time or another, but make no mistake Reid will be under the microscope on Sunday.
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Given current information, the parallel between 1968 and 2016 is inexact, but what is clear is that once again a foreign power put a thumb on the scale to help a presidential candidate.
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By creating an animated space of play through the presentation of inexact repetitions, Piffaretti foregrounds the importance of the shared space of viewership, and requires that we actively look and interpret the work.
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The film's themes, ephemeral and inexact, broadly align with each holiday's concerns: death (the terrorism trial, vaguely occult chanting), sex (observers circling a naked woman), and labor (dancers, models, stage setters at work).
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By a large margin, most of the inexact information pertained to the first trimester of a pregnancy — when most abortions are performed, as lead author Cynthia Daniels, PhD pointed out in a statement.
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The same is not as true of Netflix's chief competitors — Amazon Prime and Hulu — which still continue to add titles (so far as I can tell — getting exact counts is an inexact science).
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The pupusas — savory cakes of masa harina, fine corn flour that Ms. Marroquin mixes with nothing more than cold water — are soft and thick, their curves comfortingly inexact, patted into shape by hand.
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Here again, the FEC data offer an inexact picture of state-by-state spending; expenses are logged based on the address of the payee, not necessarily the state a campaign may have been targeting.
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Louis Michael Seidman, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University, told Insider that comparing impeachment to a criminal grand-jury proceeding is inexact because impeachment is "sui generis," or unique under the law.
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Those farther away are being tested for smoke contamination, though it is an inexact science, and in some cases producers won't know whether a wine can be sold until it has fermented in tanks.
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Once the student of American history discovers what the euphemisms mean, he cannot help reading the Constitution as an inexact copy of George III's regime, not a set of truths requiring centuries of fealty.
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The fossil record is evocative but inexact, unable to tell us precisely how our ancestors lived, while most past anthropological studies of living hunter-gatherers have been observational, meaning that researchers have estimated activity patterns.
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" FiveThirtyEight's very early and wildly inexact attempt at an estimate suggests that if the president remains this unpopular by the time of the 2018 House races, Republicans "would be forecast to lose roughly 40 seats.
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"As far as WikiLeaks is involved, there is just one important sentence—there is just one —and it's so grammatically inexact it is really hard to work out what it is saying," he told me.
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I had asked him about this in person — we agreed that so many of his characters are as much a kind of father figure as they are an archetypal hero — but felt I was inexact.
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Pinpointing ten-year trends is an inexact endeavor precisely because the arc of popular taste is only noticeable when it's over or, as with the case with entertainment in the 2010s, never seems to end.
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Rather, it's that everything I knew later to do with my hands, I managed from that day on my own, freestyle — exactly the kind of life-learning my father despises for being unreliable and inexact.
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This seemed unlikely or confusing or inexact to most observers, given that her trip took place in the context of a passionate national storm around the separation of children from their parents at the U.S. border.
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This inexact technique allows some of the bits of bread to fall away and become crumblike and crunchy, while the rest stay larger, like delicious golden-brown geodes with wild-looking exteriors and tender, chewy insides.
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Although the historical record is inexact, there appears to be some evidence that as a student, Charles Adams, son of President John Adams, was disciplined for getting drunk and running naked around Harvard Yard in 1788.
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The parallel with the gilets jaunes is inexact, not least because Mr Houellebecq's modest group of rural protesters are farmers, not employees, and their grievance is with the European Union's policy on milk quotas, not Mr Macron.
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What do we do with these inexact, overwhelming numbers: 3.3 million nationwide, 500,000 in New York City, 500,000 in Washington, D.C., 250,000 in Chicago, 750,000 in Los Angeles, and 22 on Scotland's Isle of Eigg (population 81)?
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Facebook limited its research to solving integration and differential equations, two areas of mathematics notorious for lengthy compute times and inexact solutions, but nevertheless essential to pushing forward research in countless subjects, like fluid dynamics and biological processes.
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Though he presents models of "evidence-based treatment," he concedes that the medical specialty of addiction medicine is a new and inexact science, and that the potential for relapse is a persistent "hallmark of addiction" that requires lifelong vigilance.
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We see examples of this everywhere: from compulsory fishing quotas that resulted in lower fish supplies to the enactment of the BAPCPA leading to more bankruptcy declarations — predicting how humans will respond to imposed policies is an inexact science at best.
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Advertising ONE OF THE great promises of online videos was the potential to measure precisely how effective they were: Audiences reported not through inexact ratings and surveys but directly, down to the person and the millisecond he or she spent watching.
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After voters run gantlets to get on the rolls, they are undermined by the mismanagement of inexact voter databases, ancient and under-resourced machines, lost absentee ballots or by elections officials who refuse to count votes that were properly cast.
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"The U.S. is not satisfied in overt oral support for Hong Kong but resorts to financial backing," the state English-language television network, CGTN, wrote with inexact grammar in an article posted on its website and included in the ministry's report.
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Not all prognoses are this grim — economic forecasting is an inexact science, and these reports also predict significant job creation in many cases — but most experts agree that disruption will be pronounced, even if net job losses are minimal or nonexistent.
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The simile is inexact, but I can't help but think of a thief breaking into Christie's house, stealing all his money -- and Christie declaring afterward that he owes the thief a thank-you note for proving that his burglar alarm is ineffective.
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But there can be no doubt that the slouchy, loose-jointed, atmospherically humid funk that they alchemized in the studio — specifically, Electric Lady Studios, in Greenwich Village — had a reach well beyond the scope of neo-soul, the inexact genre coalescing around them.
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Collectively, those benefits will add up to a more profound change: by gathering and processing vast quantities of data about itself, a computerised world will allow its inhabitants to quantify and analyse all manner of things that used to be intuitive and inexact.
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Of course, an applause meter is an inexact tool, but it's also a way of understanding the electorate: The people at the RNC only want to hear what Trump has told them, which is that Hillary Clinton is corrupt and needs to be jailed.
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The driers can be brutal and inexact; some of the wheat may overheat, destroying the delicate wheat germ (a shame, since the natural oils in the germ are what imbue the grain with flavor); some may be damaged by condensation that forms inside the bin.
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Concocting your own pot brownies has long been a haphazard and inexact science for recreational stoners—instructions will vary on the amount of bud and method of infusion, and often DIY cannabis cooks pay no mind to the potency of the strain they're using.
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Here is a list of pointers to help keep you sailing through security as efficiently as possible, and with minimal stress: It's an inexact science, but there are a couple of ways at least to try to approximate how long the airport line will be.
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Other variables, like how the researchers held or tilted the egg, would potentially jostle the embryo around, and he thought that the way the researchers looked into the eggs—basically shining a light through them and looking at the embryo's shadow—could provide inexact measurements of the movement.
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Though inexact, Franklin's estimates can fend off the kind of disappointment I felt at La Barbecue, a highly regarded local truck where I spent more than an hour one afternoon and where everything but chopped beef was gone by the time I'd inchwormed to the front of the line.
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The lessons of the Women's March The lessons of the Women's March What do we do with these inexact, overwhelming numbers: 222 million nationwide, 281,000 in New York City, 500,000 in Washington, D.C., 250,000 in Chicago, 750,000 in Los Angeles, and 22 on Scotland's Isle of Eigg (population 81)?
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Here's an inexact way to divide the 211 states that will be voting in the Democratic nomination on Super Tuesday into three basic groups: Estimates vary, but Clinton could expect to get at least 22008 more delegates than Sanders on Tuesday, said Richard Berg-Andersson, researcher at the Green Papers, which tracks delegate math closely.
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How Cartographers for the U.S. Military Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa A bizarre truth about internet protocol mapping — the technology that lets websites and others track devices to roughly where they are logging on to the internet — is that the science is so inexact that companies will sometimes map millions of addresses onto individual locations.
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And whether it be the horrific attack in France, the inspired attacks here in the United States, the instability in Turkey that led to a coup -- I think that is all a result of a foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that has led from behind and that has sent an inexact, unclear message, about American resolve.
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Still, with many players duplicating and triplicating the same numbers, and the unevenness taking a toll on the attention, I eagerly awaited the work of a certified pro, Blair McMillen, who, according to the sketchy and inexact program sheet, should have arrived at the piano I was staking out after some two and a half hours.
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Such comparisons are always inexact, because Mr. Trump has inherited a far more complex, potentially catastrophic, problem than his predecessors faced: a North Korea that has solved the mysteries of manufacturing a nuclear bomb, tested one with 15 times the power of the blast that leveled Hiroshima, and is now on the brink of proving its missiles could reach the continental United States.
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So while I understand that describing the Brexit victory as Magna Carta 2.0 is inexact, I think it makes a key point: Britain will regain its political freedom, its autonomous self-government, and its independence from an European Union that is spinning out of control under the power of establishment elites, unelected and unaccountable socialist bureaucrats, and a court that is increasingly making legal decisions that replace Britain's powerful common law.
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A full listen to the audio of the police scanner during the shooting makes clear that law enforcement officials first made conflicting references to the potential origin of the shots in the beginning of the search: ■ One officer reported shots coming from a window on the "50th or 60th floor" on the north side of the Mandalay Bay — an inexact, but close description of the eventually revealed location.
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Because, she wanted to say, it would be a story of nothing and everything at the same time, but by now, while only dimly realizing that she was more or less quoting Flaubert's famous 1852 letter about "a book about nothing" that everyone quotes the first time they have this idea, she knew that she had lost it, the murmur, the trace, the nub where it was her own (whatever "own" means in a world where it is also "again"), and she was forfeit, foolish, flailing, inexact, and rattling on—it had eluded her.
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