Our individual-level wake-up call linked politics to career and job success. From Wordnik.com. [Survival of the Savvy] Reference
If you're talking about labor markets, take individual-level data seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Stat Fight, Con't, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Individual-level selection, in contrast, can build individual-level adaptations. From Wordnik.com. [Cultural Evolution] Reference
The question is whether group-level selection can ever prevail over individual-level selection. From Wordnik.com. [David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection V: The Patriotic History of Individual Selection Theory] Reference
However, for evolution to work we do not need to restrict ourselves to individual-level thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution] Reference
Perhaps individual-level variables are the most appropriate to investigate in a particular diffusion study. From Wordnik.com. [Diffusion of Innovations] Reference
So maybe the individual-level correlation from exit polls is not that far from what I've seen before around .05. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Evidence I'm Wrong About Voter Motivation, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Neighborhood social support is significant as a group-level variable in addition to an individual-level variable. From Wordnik.com. [Prosociality and Humor] Reference
A similar individual-level drift process occurs when new founding populations are formed — this is called the “founder effect”. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution] Reference
Lots of experiments can show contradictions of individual-level economic assumptions, but demand curves generally slope down regardless. From Wordnik.com. [Computational Social Science and the Problem With Hakkar’s Blood] Reference
But in every case where I've had individual-level data on both income and education, it turns out that education does the work, not income. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Economic Way of Thinking: Another Test Case, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
A more fundamental issue is whether the type of individual-level data that Jencks promotes can provide a thorough test of Easterlin's model. From Wordnik.com. [Birth & Fortune] Reference
To answer this question, I match individual-level data containing various indicators of well-being to information about local average earnings. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
Fourth, the available individual-level economic and demographic variables do not robustly explain game behavior, either within or across groups. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » “‘Economic Man’ in Cross-cultural Perspective] Reference
It is far from obvious that conformist bias among individuals can enable population-level inheritance in spite of individual-level errors in copying. From Wordnik.com. [Cultural Evolution] Reference
In so doing, we account for individual-level differences in thermometer ratings, and can thus keep our eye on the relative scores each respondent gives. From Wordnik.com. [American Grace] Reference
Using individual-level census data, he finds that getting rid of malaria led to higher wages and literacy rates for children who grew up post-eradication. From Wordnik.com. [The Economics of Mosquitoes - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Using data from an experiment N = 332, we found that individual-level political ideology significantly predicted perceptions of Colbert's political ideology. From Wordnik.com. [the party of nude gingrich at its finest] Reference
What I called The Great Reckoning in T&R IV appeared to deliver a verdict: group-level selection is almost invariably weak compared to individual-level selection. From Wordnik.com. [David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection VI: Individualism] Reference
The first is an individual-level adaptation in conventional terms; birds that build better nests raise more offspring than birds in the same group that build worse nests. From Wordnik.com. [David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XI: Dawkins Protests (Too Much)] Reference
But in almost all cases such a psychological approach, centering on individual-level variables, is not a complete explanation of the diffusion behavior being investigated. From Wordnik.com. [Diffusion of Innovations] Reference
These results underscore the importance of considering how individual-level psychological processes shape collective outcomes such as the transmission and prominence of culture. From Wordnik.com. [Paper — Social Transmission and Viral Culture « ResourceShelf] Reference
Like individual-level lunches to networking happy hours. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
So, measuring individual-level consumption can be misleading. From Wordnik.com. [rediff.com] Reference
The individual-level data that were used included age, gender, and race. From Wordnik.com. [LaRouche's Latest] Reference
However, using individual-level data from a Hitwise sample of ten million anonymized U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll] Reference
You have to make a distinction between family-level poverty and individual-level poverty. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
"Comprehensive prevention" is not a country-level concept-it is an individual-level concept. From Wordnik.com. [t r u t h o u t] Reference
First, they suggest that reduction in optimal virulence is not a simple individual-level adaptation. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Each grid point shown here represents the sum of these individual-level binary grids, summed over all individuals. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Unlike individual-level adaptations such as the polar bear's thick fur, prosocial behaviors are locally disadvantageous. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Third, they suggest that models of meiotic drive could also be used to define individual-level adaptation out of existence. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
This individual-level data similarly showed that the fewer the examinees at a specific session, the higher the average results. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
"Most investigations into disease and death look at individual-level factors such as genes, diet, exercise and the like," Shrira said. From Wordnik.com. [University of Florida News] Reference
In an increasing transparent and sometimes even participatory news ecology, 'autonomy' as an individual-level concept is quite problematic. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
1So social laws and regularities ought to be explained on the basis of individual-level laws and regularities. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
2. Evidence about the impact of lead on crime takes two forms: individual-level studies, and econometric studies. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Responses to Comments] Reference
"First, it controls for and incorporates in the statistical model individual-level causes and correlates like mental health. From Wordnik.com. [UT Dallas News Center] Reference
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