Sentences with phrase «they designed experiments»

Walker: Scientists have designed experiments and they've been able to demonstrate objectively that when people say that they're doing something in that dream that they actually are.

According to a study in the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, researchers from Columbia Business School designed an experiment where they gave cheques to MBA students and tracked how long they took to cash them.

She was a Microsoft - designed experiment in artificial intelligence that would develop an increasingly human - like persona by engaging with Millennials online.

We designed an experiment to isolate discrimination's potential effect.

Suppose someone asked me to design an experiment to test whether Basic Income would be a Good thing.

Then economists realized that they could go a step further and design experiments that produced data.

The Theory of Evolution is used every day in biology to make predictions and design experiments.

or possibly witches, space aliens, equipt with special transmittors and receivers, poorly designed experiments, etc...

Why do I need to design an experiment to prove God exists?

Scott re «if you can design experiments to actually confirm»: I doubt you apply this theory of knowledge - scientism - to other aspects of your life.

Can you design an experiment to actually confirm that you are not just a brain hooked up to electrodes by a mad scientiest who is stimulating your brain to make you believe you exist?

So design your experiment to take that into account.

Take any creationist hypothesis and design an experiment that can show why it is not true.

Any good scientific theory is * always * one well - designed experiment away from being disproved.

@the whywontgodhealamputees guy: Marshall Brain [the anonomous «brain» («how stuff works» author) behind whywontgod... website] has designed an experiment to «prove» that God can not heal amputees.

2) Provide a well designed experiment that would be able to test the hypothesis that» «fine tuning» is empirical evidence that supports the claim that the god of Israel exists.»

On designing experiments and analysing data to assess the reliability and accuracy of blind wine tastings

This was great practice for designing an experiment and for starting to think about which variables to keep constant and which to change.

Cars and Ramps in the Snow — Practice asking questions, making predictions, designing an experiment, and testing ideas all while playing with cars and ramps in the snow.

I asked him to design an experiment with candy hearts.

Having no one to share lab duties with, I was spending more time in making buffers, cutting brain sections, keeping records for the EPA, IACUC, etc. than reading, think, and designing the experiments to take the projects forward.

In his new lab, Miller designed an experiment that complicated the choice his animals faced.

As I began designing experiments to investigate the symbiotic relationship between legumes and nitrogen - fixing bacteria, my committee members applauded my ambition to pioneer a project far beyond the scope of my lab, which focuses on plant - pollinator interactions.

Then, I was able to use this information to design experiments that revealed interesting results that might have otherwise gone unnoticed.

Many times, you will think twice before starting an ill - designed experiment.»

«What we did here is study developmental biology first before we designed our experiment,» said Lori Setton, the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science.

Basic science starts with a hypothesis and designs experiments that validate or reject it, with the goal of acquiring knowledge.

The University of Washington (UW), Seattle, undergraduates are inside a KC - 135 microgravity research airplane, running a self - designed experiment in a lab that flies in a sinusoidal wave pattern to mimic the weightlessness of space.

Video of Adam, which can originate hypotheses about yeast genes and their functions, design experiments to test the ideas and conduct the work.

When I ask Carter about the difficulty of designing experiments with human subjects, she laughs.

When Laura Dugan, a neurologist at Washington University in St. Louis, heard that buckyballs absorb free radicals, she designed experiments to test whether or not buckyballs could slow down nerve cell death.

Beginning in the summer of 1977, we worked together nearly every day for more than four years, designing experiments and chatting about literature, philosophy, and the latest research.

You might prefer to design an experiment, write, read a journal article, or head straight to the bench.

Because investigators inevitably need to sequence dozens or hundreds of cells in a sample, mistakes or poorly designed experiments can quickly devour vast quantities of funding.

It also became critical for me to design experiments well.

Often, the report says, Stapel and a colleague or student came up with a hypothesis, and then designed an experiment to test it.

Currently, Uesaka's team is designing experiments to solidify these strange atoms» existence and better understand what holds them together.

Now University of Vienna physicist Markus Arndt has designed an experiment suggesting that larger objects may also possess such strange quantum duality.

The physics of climate change are simple classical physics in a stunningly complex, multiscale system, so it is possible to design experiments based on cause and effect.

To test this we designed an experiment on the two islands of La Palma and Tenerife, which are separated by 90 miles.

«This gene encodes a protein which recognises the presence of a certain number of cold - inducing microbes in a cell, such as the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) or rhinoviruses,» explains Samira Asgari of EPFL, who designed the experiments.

My point is that you can neither reason nor design experiments to study core beliefs about the self or consciousness.

To test this theory, the research team designed an experiment to see if increased LPA signaling led to schizophrenia - like symptoms in animal models.

THE METHODS Jess Porter, a grad student in biophysics at Berkeley, designed the experiment with the aid of her adviser, neuroscientist Noam Sobel.

Charles Tart, a psychologist at the University of California at Davis, who did the first major study of out - of - body experiences in 1969, and Raymond Moody... designed experiments of questionable rigor and made matters worse by ignoring the peer - review process and publishing their results in best - selling books.»

Cleverly designed experiments can produce similar dissociations of unconscious and conscious knowledge in people without neurological damage.

So far, more than 30,000 students have had the experience of designing experiments for microgravity through the SSEP program, which is part of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S. and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally.

Scientists from Auspace and the Mount Stromlo Observatory, which designed the experiments carried out by the telescope, will bring back from Florida the magnetic tapes containing the data collected by the telescope.

Building on the knowledge that making older children laugh can enhance many aspects of cognition, Rana Esseily and her colleagues designed an experiment to see whether using humor could also have an effect on the ability of infants to learn.

Some physicists in the second group are busy trying to design experiments that can get to the heart of the weirdness of quantum theory.