Give people rules of thumb, not product manuals.

However, as with many rules of thumb, there are many caveats and exceptions.

These rules of thumb work (at least tolerably so) as a result of evolution.

Now there are a number of diagnostic tests, akin to marketers rules of thumb, for certain conditions.

And it is biased toward universal recipes model institutional arrangements, best practices, rules of thumb, and so forth.

Despite decades of careful data collection and mathematical and statistical research, on many large questions we have little more than rules of thumb.

Even the existence of mundane uncertainty gives rise to conventions and rules of thumb that embody the best of human experience in dealing with the unknown.

These rules of thumb are decidedly inaccurate when describing two or more bodies of similar mass, such as a binary star system (see n body problem).

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So, what he found is that in all cases of thumb mutations, instead of having a thumb, you would either get another opposable thumb, or you would get four fingers.

The normal rules of thumb would say that the market is now expecting 8.75 years of near zero short term interest rates before the economy returns to normal.

, having a hitchhiker's thumb and a straight thumb, eyes of slightly different colors, differential hair growth on opposite sides of the body, etc.

Actions The flexor pollicis longus is a flexor of the phalanges of the thumb when the thumb is fixed, it assists in flexing the wrist.

The specific example discussed is of a satellite orbiting a planet, but the rules of thumb could also apply to other situations, such as orbits of small bodies around a star such as the Sun.

Watch the fingers grab. The thumb comes up. Wrist.

Before the Scientific Revolution, they believed that everything important, knowable, was already known, enshrined in ancient writings, institutions, and in some genuinely useful rules of thumb which were, however, entrenched as dogmas, along with many falsehoods.

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OK, now, cross your hands over, so your right hand goes over, interlace your fingers like this, then make sure your right thumb is outside your left thumb that's very important.

Tuscola County is a county located in the Thumb region of the U.S. state of Michigan.

A common rule of thumb is that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession.

OK, I want you to pinch right here with two fingers and your thumb.

The abductor pollicis brevis is a muscle in the hand that functions as an abductor of the thumb.

Now he's going to pick up a pen with his opposed thumb and index finger.

It is a common rule of thumb in business e.g., 80 of your sales come from 20 of your clients.

The general rule of thumb is to ascend no more than 300 meters (1,000 ft) per day to sleep.

Researchers in conservation biology have tended to adopt the 50 500 rule of thumb initially advanced by Franklin and Soule.

The opponens pollicis is a small, triangular muscle in the hand, which functions to oppose the thumb.

But the historical rule of thumb is that the chances of a fast, hard landing have now surpassed 25 , and continue to climb.

In human anatomy, the adductor pollicis muscle is a muscle in the hand that functions to adduct the thumb.

Historically, both state and federal attorney generals have preferred to prosecute occasional traders, who stick out like a sore thumb.

If you hit your thumb with a hammer, these wires in your arm that, of course, we call nerves transmit the information into the junction box in the spinal cord where new wires, new nerves, take the information up to the brain where you become consciously aware that your thumb is now hurt.

The rule of thumb that chemical and biochemical processes double in speed with each increase of ten degrees Celsius is a reasonable approximation here, too.

For a typical power system, the rule of thumb is that the base load power is usually 35 40 of the maximum load during the year.

Assuming it was roughly the size of my wife's hand, I made some measurements of her thumb, and I scaled them out to the size of the skull.

Somebody said the test we're facing now, a scientist told me, is whether the combination of an opposable thumb and a neocortex is a viable combination.

Sarkozy can afford to thumb his nose at his party, given the total collapse of the opposition Socialists, who will almost certainly lose the 2012 election.

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