ambiguity

Examples of ambiguity in the following topics:

• Uniting Competing Factions Within the Party

  • Democratic and Republican Parties have historically taken ideologically ambiguous positions in order to attract a wide range of supporters.
  • The two major Democratic and Republican Parties in the United States have historically been ideologically ambiguous in order to accommodate citizens representing a broad spectrum of interests.

• Net Income

  • Often, the term income is substituted for net income, yet this is not preferred due to the possible ambiguity.
  • Often, the term "income" is substituted for net income, yet this is not preferred due to the possible ambiguity.

• The Nature of Effective Communication

  • Another barrier is "knowledge-appropriate" communication–using ambiguous legal words or medical jargon with another person who doesn't understand them.
  • System design faults like ambiguous definition of roles that can lead to confusion about message targets; lack of oral and written communication skills; and poor information technology infrastructure, including networks and applications.

• Streptophytes and Reproduction of Green Algae

  • The position of green algae is more ambiguous.
  • Green algae include unicellular and colonial flagellates, most with two flagella per cell, as well as various colonial, coccoid, and filamentous forms, along with macroscopic seaweeds, all of which add to the ambiguity of green algae classification since plants are multicellular.

• What About The BSD License?

  • However, this history makes the phrase "BSD license" a bit ambiguous: does it refer to the original, or the revised version?
  • This is why I prefer the MIT/X license, which is essentially equivalent, and which does not suffer from any ambiguity.

• Sex and Physiology

  • Such variation may involve genital ambiguity and/or combinations of chromosomes other than XY (typically found in males) and XX (typically found in females).
  • Intersex infants with ambiguous outer genitalia are often surgically "corrected" at birth so that they more easily conform to a socially accepted sex category.
  • What is considered male, female, or even ambiguous is largely classified by society, and this kind of "corrective" surgery is a highly controversial topic.
  • Research done in the late 20th century has led to a growing medical consensus that diverse intersex bodies are normal—if relatively rare—forms of human biology, and up to 1.7% of live births exhibit some degree of sexual ambiguity.

• Introduction to Index Numbers

  • But this word is hardly unique in its ambiguity, and we need to remember that many of the words used in politics and in the analysis of politics may mean quite different things from time to time and from person to person.

• Introduction

  • NOTE: The values of discrete and continuous random variables can be ambiguous.

• Downward Communication

  • Creating clearly worded and non-ambiguous communications and maintaining a respectful tone can overcome these issues and increase effectiveness.

• Interest Rates and the Business Cycle

  • Therefore, changes in bond prices and interest rates become ambiguous.