Sentences with phrase «now hypothesis testing»

Now hypothesis testing under the scientific method would have us test how the null hypothesis associated with this proposition coincides with the observed data (NB: observed data not the output from GCMs).

Not exact matches

I have been struggling with this question for several years now, and while I am not ready to claim I have a «solution» (nothing but pride would make such a claim), I do have a theological hypothesis which will be tested against Scripture.

Now, you can present the existence of a deity responsible for the creation of the universe as a hypothesis for the observation that the universe exists, but the whole point of a hypothesis is that you test it to see if it's accurate.

Bill you have made an assertion — now lets test your hypothesis.

If we test a hypothesis and the test fails to produce the predicted result, we simply now know that one line of inquiry is invalid (assuming it is repeated and confirmed) and a new hypothesis must be formed.

To do that we have to establish a way to prove an assumption by: 1) asserting a hypothesis and its components 2) testing the components for substantial supporting evidence, unsupported components go back to be refined 3) either agree after successful testing that in our shared reality the hypothesis is now supported, or that overall unsupported components may mean the hypothesis fails 4) for sake of ease many people call these tested and supported hypotheses «facts», but again that's just so that we can get on with progress.

I accept them as starting points for developing hypotheses that we can test, but I'm not happy with the answers we have now, either from science or from religion.»

The researchers are now using functional neuroimaging to test the «four components» cognitive flexibility hypothesis.

«We now need to test this hypothesis in other species and in the same studied species too but in wider depth ranges and in other Antarctic areas because the minimum pH value can vary in depth depending on the area they are.

«But we now have rational, scientific hypotheses to test to improve upon clinical results observed with our first group of patients.»

First author Professor Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Director of Institute of Experimental Genetics at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, who invented the mouse clinic concept, said: «Our findings with regard to the genes examined are now available to the scientific community as a valid data set, which can be downloaded free of charge from the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium) website, and form an excellent basis on which we and other research groups can develop and test new hypotheses.»

Using molecular - genetic methods, a German - Chinese research team has now tested an alternative colonization hypothesis on lazy toads (Pelobatoidea).

«Now we have a great theoretical framework to understand what generates them and to help us make and test more hypotheses.»

They are testing that hypothesis now.

They believe it influences how well the birds perceive contrast, a hypothesis they are now testing in captive crows.

To test this hypothesis, the research team is now planning to explore the longer term behavioral impact of sleep - sacks in a larger group of preterm newborns.

Many paleontologists have maintained that the horns of ceratopsians were rhinolike, and Witmer can now test that hypothesis.

«Because we can now monitor and manipulate the activity of specific sets of neurons, we're getting closer to being able to directly test these hypotheses and working toward strategies to improve human health.»

In a new test of this cooking hypothesis, Herculano - Houzel and her graduate student, Karina Fonseca - Azevedo, now a neuroscientist at the National Institute of Translational Neuroscience in São Paulo, Brazil, decided to see if a diet of raw food inherently put limits on how large a primate's brain or body could grow.

Now, researchers have used ancient DNA to test that hypothesis.

The hypothesis will now be tested in a new study involving 210 children at neonatal units in three Swedish cities; Gothenburg, Lund and Stockholm.

Now, William Cooper Jr of Indiana University — Purdue University in Fort Wayne has tested Darwin's hypothesis on 66 species of lizards from around the world and found that island dwellers tended to be more docile than their continental relatives — the strongest evidence yet for this classic idea.

The researchers are now conducting further studies to test that hypothesis.

But up until now we couldn't fully test this hypothesis as we didn't know how fast fragmented objects rotate,» Drahus said.

Previous work speculated that microbes are the actual producers of the chemical compounds used in mammalian communication, and Theis now had the genetic tools to test this hypothesis.

In the last 10 years we've been working really hard at seeing the photoreceptors and studying other retina conditions but we're now going to focus really hard on trying to visualize the ganglion cells and the vasculature that serves the ganglion cells so that we can actually test some of the most contested hypotheses about glaucoma.

Although evidence of animal body or paws stencils were completely absent from the rock art of North Africa up to now, Honoré decided to test her hypothesis that these hands might not be those of human children after all.

But we really didn't have a way to test that hypothesis until now.»

Now that my bias is exposed, I like to take things to the extreme to test a hypothesis.

There will be some clear failures where there are reasons to suspect that some of the (up to now) excluded physics is dominant (i.e. Heinrich events that rely on ice sheet dynamics), but pretty much everything else is fair game — as long of course there is a good hypothesis to test.

Whatever statistical hypothesis testing reveals, I believe most Australians over 30 now believe rainfall patterns are different.

Independent researchers have tested the Charney Report's hypothesis against atmospheric temperature data, which now extends over 37 years, and found the hypothesis wanting.

Dismissing natural variability even though it is well demonstrated by now that the consensus view on so - called «global warming» has failed seems to invert the scientific process of (in rough form): Observe > hypothesis > test / predict > measure result > Compare to observation > reconcile to reality.

It is time now, after 30 years of testing the AGW hypothesis, that the low CS hypothesis should be put under scrutiny.

I'd say the thing to do now is to test your hypothesis — first with climate models, as Judith has suggested, and (more importantly) with empirical data that either falsify or validate it.

The difference is, it is now possible to test hypotheses about the chronology or the validity of the model e.g. by looking for omitted variables and to quantify the effect of certain trees.

This ice sheet melted long time ago, but left behind geological evidence of sub glacial processes that now can be put in numerical models, to test hypotheses of how they may work in modern environment.

Now, take a thousand people doing the same test, and then we can talk about if this premise of yours fits a null hypothesis test.

Surface temperatures would stay elevated for at least a thousand years,...» Now there is an hypothesis that we will test in the coming decades, and if it proves false, the house of cards will tumble.

Now, if I want to test this hypothesis, I will collect a sample of your, say, dice throws.