Sentences with phrase «anecdotal data from»

It's been in effect for 23 years, yet the LAO uses one year's anecdotal data from a few districts to declare that the statute's working.

Though no formal studies exist, there is anecdotal data from the development teachers suggesting all students were highly engaged when using LearnToLearn regardless of learning abilities, gender, or prior experience with LEGO bricks.

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Indeed, anecdotal evidence suggested mobile sales set a new record on Friday, data from Adobe Insights showed.

Rather than rely on anecdotal data, BCG did a thorough zip code cluster analysis and discovered something interesting: unlike what they'd assumed, their senior partners weren't typically on the Upper East Side (a Manhattan neighborhood quite far from the Hudson Yards site) and far out in the suburbs.

While it's hard to measure with data because we typically have a long sales cycle (several months to years before closing a client), we know from a lot of anecdotal evidence that our videos have played a significant role in keeping Stone Temple top - of - mind along the customer journey.

«Partial data and anecdotal evidence suggest that import - buying from China and Russia has dropped off substantially since the opening 3 to 4 months of the year,» said the bank in its quarterly dairy market update.

It covers anecdotal and benchmark data from fiscal year 2014 (November 2013 to October 2014), unless otherwise noted.

RCOG's position statement on water birth is from 2006, and it basically admits there was very little to no reliable safety data on the subject, but that there were anecdotal reports of drowning and infection.

Now, we can combine official government data sources with the more anecdotal evidence from the cocktail party above (but please please verify before posting!)

The Work Group collected data and anecdotal evidence from Asian American scientists throughout the federal sector.

Setting aside aggregate employment projections for the word on the street, anecdotal reports filtering back to the BLS from its data hounds now on the trail lead Shelley to wax positive on the current faculty employment outlook by relating: «We're hearing that is opening up.»

While prior research has relied on anecdotal accounts and small focus groups, Appelbaum and Han gathered data from 731 surveys completed by STEM faculty at China's top 25 universities.

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to find out if a batch is good or not, so we have to rely on statistics from lab reports, Internet ratings, and anecdotal data.

Relief from condition XYZZY upon going wheat - free may be anecdotal, but when you are the one with XYZZY, and the symptoms come roaring back on re-exposure, it's all the hard data you need.

Combining anecdotal material with quantifiable data from a nationwide sample of large cities, they find positive impacts on both school management and elementary school achievement.

The university, like many education schools across the country, often must rely on anecdotal evidence from principals and graduates to determine that its programs are working, rather than hard data showing students are performing better.

These data included formal and informal interviews, anecdotal notes from observed lessons, student teacher reflections, lesson plans, and other participant - created artifacts.

Anecdotal evidence is just as valid as data generated from research studies.

The team may also use anecdotal information and progress data from the student's classroom teachers to further describe their skills.

Based on the data from the postpresentation reflections and the postquestionnaires in conjunction with anecdotal comments from students, the focus on DLTs in this preservice mathematics unit will not only continue, but will be strengthened.

Here is a state - by - state rundown of the anecdotal credit report data from applicants for Chase credit cards:

This unscientific and anecdotal data comes from quizzing my family's health care team.

There is significant anecdotal evidence that small businesses can benefit from collecting consumer data and using it to make smart decisions that grow revenue.

These data and anecdotal information reported by shelters affected by H3N2 virus suggest that, to reduce the risk of transmission of H3N2 virus, infected dogs should be isolated from uninfected, unexposed dogs for a period of (greater than or equal to) 21 days following onset of illness.

If we take the example of * collected * anecdotal data of reservoir sizes from the North Sea, something which both these Brits should be familar with:), you will find that they can be modeled with a fat - tailed probability distribution.

Putting together often detailed anecdotal information from a number of sources into a classification works well and correlated when I did the exercise with known instrumental data from a little later in the record.

Looking at these results, that are admittedly anecdotal at this point, I see generally better fits to a normal distribution and lower autocorrelation (AR1) in the residuals as one goes from monthly to individual months to annual data series and as one goes to sub periods of a long term temperature anomaly series.

However, I have seen anecdotal reports that many of the volunteer COOP weather observers have long been aware that this would yield bad daily readings on many days, and so would reset the minimum reading in the early afternoon so that the next morning's reading would always show the low for that morning and not data from the previous morning.

In this global study, Randers presents a forecast for the next 40 years, supported by «statistical data, anecdotal stories, impressions from traveling the world... formal analyses of particular developments,» and short essays by a variety of experts.

There is a plethora of empirical and anecdotal data indicating that changes in Arctic ice extent result from natural and cyclical variability.

Eli: there is certainly anecdotal data, some from personal experience, that at least in person (as opposed to safety of the net), people are less willing to express climate denial claims in public, especially in front of neighbors, or to challenge expert speakers.

Currently, lawyers need to rely heavily on reasoning from analogy and anecdotal data when making decisions on case strategy.

But every one of those anecdotal impressions and bits of conventional wisdom can be approached from a data - driven perspective, quantified and proven (or disproven).

This new legal technology salary mashup contains general salary data points gathered from an aggregation of publicly available technology and legal technology industry research, reports, and anecdotal evidence.

Generally too, there is little empirical information available on people's post-release experiences and what is available has been garnered from anecdotal evidence or assumptions made from the available data on recidivism.

The Bureau also believes that the structural flaws in HUD's 2008 RESPA Final Rule the Bureau identified in the proposal and described in this section - by - section analysis justify the Bureau taking this action in this final rule, even though the Bureau's empirical support rests on anecdotal evidence, rather than systemic data, because of the significant harm that can result from increased closing costs to consumers.