Measuring in sentence

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The trouble is that measuring how much time people spend in school or what degree they have got is not always a good way of seeing what they can actually do.

So with PISA, we try to change this by measuring the knowledge and skills of people directly.

They say, you know, such a way of measuring outcomes is terribly unfair to people, because we test students with problems they haven't seen before.

And once hotly contested, our way of measuring outcomes has actually quickly become the standard.

Charitable giving has remained stuck in the U.S., at two percent of GDP, ever since we started measuring it in the 1970s.

This is kind of hard to do with one hand on your belly and one hand on measuring, but I've got it, I think, and I'll save that image and send it to you.

It's measuring all sorts of things around the car.

If you're not measuring things, you don't care and you don't know.

And once they had agreed, they started measuring, and started sharing the data.

For many years, Swedish hip surgeons had the best results in the world, at least for those who actually were measuring, and many were not.

So the physicians get together, they agree on what quality is, they start measuring, they share the data, they find who's best, and they learn from it.

Now, if the American healthcare system would focus a lot more on measuring quality, and raise quality just to the level of average OECD, it would save the American people 500 billion U.S. dollars a year.

So it is, by measuring and creating transparency, you get a cycle of continuous improvement, which is what this slide shows.

By measuring value in healthcare, that is not only costs but outcomes that matter to patients, we will make staff in hospitals and elsewhere in the healthcare system not a problem but an important part of the solution.

I believe measuring value in healthcare will bring about a revolution, and I'm convinced that the founder of modern medicine, the Greek Hippocrates, who always put the patient at the center, he would smile in his grave.

Another one is a set of lasers, very high-powered lasers, that fire out of the bottom of the plane, sweeping across the ecosystem and measuring it at nearly 500,000 times per second in high-resolution 3D.

And if we can agree on both a value and a way of measuring whether we've been successful at reducing that re-offending, then we can do something we think rather interesting.

If you sit a guy on a chair with all this apparatus measuring your physiology, and there's kind of a bomb that goes off, it's such an instinctive response that, in 20 years, they never saw anyone who would not jump.

Say we have a canvas measuring 4x4.

So I've been interested as an artist in the measuring, the observation, of many of the trans-border informal flows across this border: in one direction, from south to north, the flow of immigrants into the United States, and from north to south the flow of waste from southern California into Tijuana.

They’re also useful for the study of atomic and subatomic phenomena, which requires measuring incredibly tiny fluctuations in the energy of atoms.

As far as I know, it was just measuring our sleeping habits.

As far as I know, psychophysics is about measuring things.

And Howard is very interested in measuring things.

Now, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has a set of guidelines which have some rules of thumb for measuring entropy, but they don't have anything too specific, and the reason they only have rules of thumb is it turns out they don't actually have any good data on passwords.

Bizarrely, nobody had ever thought of measuring this before.

He has a mathematical measure of information integration which he calls phi, measuring the amount of information integrated in a system.

And they showed this by measuring the brightness of supernovae, and how the brightness of the supernovae got fainter with distance.

So by measuring it we can understand what is the pattern of ignorance.

Again, we gathered objective measurements of people's physical fitness, measuring the circumference of their waist and the circumference of their hips, and we had them do a few other tests of fitness.

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