Sentences with phrase «if empirical support»

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If someone believes something that is supported by empirical evidence, but not technically proven, would you consider that to be faith?

If you lead with empirical data, however, you've told your audience «here's a problem, here's the data that supports the existence of the problem, here's my suggestion for a solution.»

At one such meeting, several of the firefighters — all of them in happy, long - term marriages — asked if there was any empirical evidence to support this long - held idea.

Research in support of this hypothesis, theoretical and empirical, has focused on the possible kindred advantages of post-reproductive life and if such contributions are sufficient to explain the maintenance of menopause [2], [40], [53]--[58], as they would have to overcome the twofold cost for a grandmother to raise each grandchild rather than one of her own.

Just think how long people would live if they followed the Mediterranean diet w / o olive oil...;) There's just way too much empirical evidence that supports the health benefits of olive oil.

I guess I'm exposing my relatively recent arrival to your blog, but where do you stand on the paying down the mortgage or beefing up RRSP contributions debate and what, if any, empirical evidence do you have to support your stance?

It appears quite obvious that investor expectations are low, including your own, and I think all the empirical data about investors views on the stock market support this but if you disagree, fine, I don't feel any need to argue about it.

If such a signal existed, it would, indeed, be strong empirical data to support a numeric value of total climate sensitivity; the rise of surface temperature as a result as a result of adding CO2 to the atmopshere.

If, as Jim Cripwell writes, we can not even show that the temperature / time patterns of the past changed significantly when human CO2 emissions increased, we have no empirical basis to support the notion of any «sensitivity» at all — only theory.

My own perspective on this is that it would be a significant departure from earlier work by Trenberth if he really came with empirical evidence (i.e. data based on actual physical observations, rather than simply model simulations) to support his position.

If there was actual empirical measurements and irrefutable studies (sans climate model simulations) supporting the IPCC's CAGW claims and predictions, then skeptics, and any of those in - the - bedroom - closet boogieman deniers, would likely not exist except in the conspiracy - addled brains of climate doomsday believers.

If you can show me the empirical evidence that specifically supports this premise, I will reconsider my conclusion.

-- If a scientific claim is involved, check for empirical evidence to support this claim: is the claim supported by actual physical observations or reproducible experimentation?

Sheesh, if he can't manage to comprehend the fact that NONE OF THE CURVES SHOWN HAVE ANY EMPIRICAL SUPPORT IN THE REAL WORLD, then he's never going to.

But what we claim emphatically, is that when all the hypotheses have been stated, then we can only know that these hypoteses have a basis in physics if they are supported by the empirical data.

If there are no empirical facts to support some consensus or other, then, to put it bluntly, it is as uselss as tits on a bull.

(If this is what you're doing — perhaps you have a specific law in mind and can apprise me of it and any supporting empirical data you're aware of?)

Looks like you are continuing to avoid my request to cite specific empirical evidence in support of the CAGW (or DAGW, if you prefer) premise of IPCC and James E. Hansen.

Now I'm still waiting for you to tell me whether or not you support the CAGW premise as stated and, if so, for you to cite the empirical data upon which you base your support

If we want understanding NOW, then all climate models are close to worthless because it will be impossible to invalidate them (or find enough empirical evidence to support them) during my lifetime (old as dirt here) and probablys yours, too.

If, on the other hand, the defenders of the DAGW premise have provided empirical data based on physical observations or reproducible experimentation, which support the hypothesis, then it would be up to the skeptics to refute these data in order to falsify it.

If it's so «easy» to cite empirical data that supports the CAGW premise, why are you not simply doing just that?

If the premise is not supported by empirical evidence, such as from real - time physical observations or reproducible experimentation, it remains an uncorroborated hypothesis.

I think that in - work benefits are certainly the easiest aspect to address legally, but residence restrictions per se would not be impossible, providing the empirical support was there (a big if, but still).

The negative economic consequences may be substantial when the government - mandated speech involves a claim about a technical topic that not only lacks empirical support (and thus may be characterized as «junk science»), but is deceptive and misleading (if not demonstrably false).

2 groups of raters independently reviewed each study to determine if there was empirical support for specific hypotheses regarding the relation between childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders.

A systematic review was conducted to answer two questions: which are the empirical evidence available in the literature to support using psychological screening measures in child daycare centers; and if those measures can be adopted as cost - effective assessment policies for children's cognition.

A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).