Sentences with phrase «field chaff»

This geometric, starburst pattern refers back to previous works by Long, such as Paddy - Field Chaff Circle (2003), a temporary circle of radial lines made on Warli tribal land in the Maharastra district of India, while the sculpture's material relates to a recent flint and slate circle, North South East West (2017) made for his major exhibition at Houghton Hall last year.

Not exact matches

The probability of a randomly selected mutation in a randomly selected gene having precisely that effect is quite low, so just as with the stones in the field, a positive finding is more likely than not to be spurious — unless the experiment is unbelievably successful at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Lilienfeld's emphasis on evidence - based psychology has helped sort wheat from chaff in that field.

In the field that most interests me, anthropology, where I have a fair amount of training and experience, I see dubious claims being made all the time, based on some combination of wishful thinking, unsubstantiated assumptions and confirmation bias, so I'm used to picking through such claims to separate the wheat from the chaff.

The intellectual and scientific field had better be rough and tumble to sort out the wheat from the chaff.

Poorly - trained scientists might look at the field of climatology and fail to sort the wheat from the chaff, or worse still, convince themselves that they can do a better job than the climatologists.

No problem with new program — a lot of chaff was being presented in the name of Continuing Education, as Ms Jeans says, That said, TREB and many providers vetted & associated w TREB provided many specific / obscure topics by EXPERTS in the field - these will be missed as CEU courses, but can still be offered by the providers, less often, for larger audiences and at same / smaller cost per person.