11 example sentences using weighting.
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You do it with the stories, by weighting them manually.
Those rankings give a 60% weighting towards research rather than teaching.
This is over and above not weighting the link if the URL does otherwise make it onto its to crawl list.
De-weighting RG is one thing, nuking it into the ground is entirely different, and is in my opinion unwarranted.
There is also the problem of weighting, like you mention, and I don't think anyone is comfortable with it but I don't think it's as ad-hoc as you make it out to be.
People who place a lot of value on their "expertise" in Blub tend to do so because they're over-weighting the importance of their memory of the API details.
Of course as a white, British, heterosexual, able-bodied, 20-something male, my opinion is given a - weighting.
No technology is free of flaws and engineering decisions are almost always based on weighting the pros and cons and choosing a solution that on balance works best.
Typically researchers develop their own methods for weighting samples in the temperature reconstructions and many of these methods would make a statistician cringe.
It doesn't answer the question of why Reinhart and Rogoff chose to exclude certain high-debt years for certain countries or why they chose the particular weighting mechanism that the critics found problematic.
It also decreases the level of engagement, readability of a thread, and because weighting of comments is now invisible there is no reason to upvote or downvote anything, or read any particular comment over another.
Weighting definitions
(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
See also: weight