Sentences with phrase «alternate explanation»

In the paper, the researchers consider but largely rule out a couple of alternate explanations for stock market behavior during this time.

Regardless if some people find evidence of alternate explanations, it doesn't make it bashing; just worth discussing.

Another question involves possible alternate explanations for the warming we have experienced over the past three decades.

The only alternate explanation for the diversity numbers within the profession is that people are openly and actually racist.

In assessing for a possible ASD we consider possible alternate explanations for cognitive, language, and social difficulties, such as other medical or psychological disorders.

The data sets aren't huge — 232 participants in October before the election and 152 after, with a total of 772 negotiations recorded — and there may be some other difference that explains the later group's more aggressive behavior, though Low tried to control for factors, like party affiliation, that might offer alternate explanations for the shift.

Fredrickson's (1998) broaden - and - build model and Bowlby's (1969) attachment theory provide alternate explanations for positive cognitive, social, physical, and psychological outcomes, positive affect and secure attachments, respectively.

Papers with alternate explanations for the earths climate cycles and temperature extremes are now being published daily.

While correlation does not imply causation, there is only so much one can ascribe to chance, and proposing alternate explanations allows one to test those proposed explanations retrospectively.

If it's all just alternate explanations that work with the evidence, I would much prefer people change their theory to meet the facts (as the Dalai Lama, for instance, recommends) than keep going with some simplistic idea of «faith».

Without others reproducing these results, and disproving alternate explanations, this can not be used as a proof that adding high - reps is beneficial for strength training.

In some cases this currently accepted state can become dogmatic and actively opposes alternate explanations that are supported by data.

They provided alternate explanations for the decline of polar bear populations, such as stress from interactions with tourists, and suggested the bears could adapt to a warming climate by supplementing their diet with berries and vegetation.

That said, I have on occasion come up with alternate explanations for the creation of the universe as an intellectual exercise, and have even shared one of them here:

This phenomenon can occur in regard of the subjects both in my areas of expertise, and also in areas of significance outside of my expertise; an example, only a few days ago, being the publication of the identification of the mechanism of cardiac death of individuals during defaecation due to use of the Valsalva manoeuvre: a factor in possible alternate explanations of death due to stimulant drug abuse.

However, an alternate explanation may point to a Chinese exploit supplier or the language competency of the developer.

There may be an alternate explanation: The dybbuk is back.

Personally, I don't see an alternate explanation for existence.

Russ, you said, «while it is a «huge leap» (as you say) to claim the specificity of the Judeo - Christian God in this particular finding, how is it not * equally * (if not more so) a leap to filter out the concept of transcendence (which you call a «self - contained oxymoron»), without any alternate explanation for the paradoxical «something out of nothing» origins of our universe?»

while it is a «huge leap» (as you say) to claim the specificity of the Judeo - Christian God in this particular finding, how is it not * equally * (if not more so) a leap to filter out the concept of transcendence (which you call a «self - contained oxymoron»), without any alternate explanation for the paradoxical «something out of nothing» origins of our universe?

As with Stephanie, can you give an alternate explanation to God's withdrawal in a paragraph?

They are unable to consider and seek out alternate explanations for some of their findings, etc..

You've already swallowed the fiction of your faith which doesn't allow for alternate explanations.

Or could rephrase as saying Mike is being obtuse saying there are no alternate explanations when in fact there are thousands of interpretations of God.

A parent in denial will avoid talking about the disability and will make up excuses and alternate explanations of the problem.

But the key element was his eagerness to find an alternate explanation for the incident.

I think @Lostinfrance's answer is very good, but I want to introduce a bit of an alternate explanation for that specific phrase.

Hopkins analyzed data from 133 elections between 1989 and 2006, compared the results of those elections to the corresponding pre-election poll numbers, and considered some of the alternate explanations which have been offered for any discrepancies therein.

An alternate explanation is that Cameron's honeymoon has simply come to an aprupt end, that the Tory increase was a purely temporary phenomenon and they are now falling back to their previous level of support.

However, Edwards cautions, there may be an alternate explanation for the genetic diversity seen in the new study.