better-than-average
adjective
ukusused todescribesomething that is above thenormallevelofperformance:
Companies should betryingtoproducebetter-than-averagereturnsfortheirinvestors.
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Nevertheless, there is a recognised distinction in that those people decided to invest in something that was giving abetter-than-averagereturn.
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It was never intended that the grant should be available to people ofbetter-than-averageincomes when they retire.
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That has generally created abetter-than-averageinflation record in countries with independent banks—but it does not come cost free.
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Surely it is fair to propose to give the areas that will be most adversely affected by the lottery's introduction abetter-than-averagechance of housing its headquarters.
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He also pitched abetter-than-averagecurveball and a slider.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Research into focalism has focused primarily on optimistic bias rather than thebetter-than-averageeffect.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Their ancestors had sometimes benefited by paternal investment in cultural capital, includingbetter-than-averageeducation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Pronin and her co-authors explained to subjects thebetter-than-averageeffect, the halo effect, self-serving bias and many other cognitive biases.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Preferentially copying successful members of the group allows individuals to avoid costly trial-and-error learning by imitating thebetter-than-averageskills of the more prestigious cultural models.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.More recent reviews were more favourable, commenting on the production values and acting asbetter-than-average.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Algorithms homogenize input, maintaining the traditional anonymity of survey responders to generatebetter-than-averagepredictions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.You probably know more about me than you do about your own spouse, unless you have abetter-than-averagemarriage, he once informed his listeners.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.According to thebetter-than-averagebias, specifically, people are likely to see themselves as inaccurately better than average for possible positive traits and less than average for negative traits.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thebetter-than-averageheuristic and statistical regression predict errors in estimates of own performance, that people at all performance levels are equally poor at estimating their relative performance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Compounding the popular expectation that home prices do not fall, it is also widely believed that home values will yield average orbetter-than-averagereturns as investments.
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- indoor sport
- indoor stadium
- indoor toilet
- indoor track
- indoor venue
- indoor volleyball
- Indore
- indorse
- in for a penny (in for a pound)
- in-for-a-penny-in-for-a-pound
- in force
- in-force
- in for it
- in-for-it
- inform
- inform-against-on
- inform against/on sb
- inform-against-on-sb
- inform against/on someone
- informal
- informal agreement
- informal arrangement
- informal assessment
- informal basis
- informal caregiver