Sentences with phrase «anecdotal evidence about»

I can only find anecdotal evidence about why puzzles are calming.

It can be helpful to provide anecdotal evidence about the psychological stressors you are encountering.

Current anecdotal evidence about the number of tribunal claims seems to suggest a slight «bounce back» of workload with an increase in holiday pay claims.

While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence about which products and sectors are the most pollution - intensive, anecdotes do not add up to a full picture.

There's ample anecdotal evidence about a dog sniffing out cancer in their owner, but now we have some science to back up those stories.

Those who develop processed dog foods and those who feed these diets point out the scientific reports that back their claims; those who feed BARF are equally as adamant that their anecdotal evidence about dog health and well - being proves the value of fresh, raw food.

Anecdotal evidence about VW reliability is just that.

There is some anecdotal evidence about the benefits of reducing problematic behaviour of disruptive pupils on the attainment of their classmates, but this is an understudied dimension in evaluations of behaviour programmes.

As with other anecdotal evidence about CBD, you don't have to look hard to find stories of dogs in extreme pain who purportedly found relief through CBD.

A review of the literature turns up a variety of anecdotal evidence about the importance of pH to various living organisms, however, and as you might expect, optimal pH varies, depending on the organism.

We have anecdotal evidence about the impact of the digital echo chamber in 2016, but we don't know the exact cause nor the exact effect.

The evidenced based information about D - MER is still very limited but anecdotal evidence about the manifestation and treatment of D - MER has been sourced from the hundreds and hundreds of women who have shared their experiences.

I can only find anecdotal evidence about why puzzles are calming.

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The reason: Most of today's conversations on colors and persuasion consist of hunches, anecdotal evidence and advertisers blowing smoke about «colors and the mind.»

You can read just about any blog or research paper, and they will provide you with anecdotal evidence on the trials and tribulations of building a company.

Based entirely on anecdotal evidence, however, I believe the press» credibility with senior citizens has taken a hit from which it is unlikely to recover, and it may be entirely due to the election of 2008, when the mainstream media utterly abandoned whatever responsibilities to the public trust to which it still felt obliged, tossed presumptive - nominee Hillary Clinton aside and» rejecting any - and - all discomfiting questions about his experience, background, past - operations, education, friendships or capabilities» hoisted candidate Barack Obama upon their shoulders and carried him into the White House in triumph.

Echoing decades of anecdotal evidence, a new study of about 2,000 cases of exoneration found that black people are extremely more likely to be wrongfully committed of a crime.

Some of it is anecdotal evidence, such as stories about call committees and bishops who can not find enough talented clergy to replace retiring clergy.

Finally, most troops are sponsored by churches, and anecdotal evidence suggests that most of them are more serious about religious observance than is the by «the «way nature piety of «Troop 49.»

Manuka buffs will know many of the uses for Manuka Honey, but further down the page we have listed most of the applications we have heard about, based on user feedback and anecdotal evidence.

Using my anecdotal evidence to prove that formula feeders earn less makes just about as much sense as whatever it is she's trying to prove here.

What continues to be lost, in my view, in much of what the media has reported over the last six years about the results of autopsies conducted by researchers at the Sports Legacy Institute in Boston on the brains of athletes - autopsies which show the presence of the dark splotches of tau protein which are the tell - tale sign of CTE - which is that they provide, at most, anecdotal evidence suggesting a possible connection.

Comments about the hostile response to any request for home birth confirm the anecdotal reports of consumer groups such as the Association for the Improvement in Maternity Services and the National Childbirth Trust and evidence to the Expert Maternity Group.1 In addition, many women who had booked a home birth were later transferred to hospital for delivery, both before and after the onset of labour.

It is possible that all the warnings by the AAP and other groups about avoiding pillows, etc. due to suffocation hazard are bunk, but all you are countering with is anecdotal evidence from your one experience.

These findings support anecdotal evidence from lactation experts, who say it takes about one year to regain the pre-pregnancy figure.

11:19 - It hasn't been a great opening stint from Jay, who has touched on some issues about Murdoch's leadership but not been able to come up with anything beyond anecdotal evidence.

«We are hearing lots about «anecdotal evidence», but the only hard figures we have showed an increase in the level of disorder.

The IND will also work much more closely with the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca)- anecdotal evidence suggests about three - quarters of illegal entrants are brought to the UK through criminal gangs.

«There was anecdotal evidence too: both thylacines and devils lasted for over 40,000 years following the arrival of humans in Australia; their mainland extinction about 3000 years ago was just after dingoes were introduced to Australia; and the fact that thylacines and devils persisted on Tasmania, which was never colonised by dingoes.

What rankles Relman, Angell, and other critics about Weil in particular is his tendency to speak ex cathedra: to endorse therapies based only on anecdotal evidence rather than on scientific research.

«For a long time, we relied on anecdotal evidence and small - scale research findings about how well music therapy works,» she says.

Sometimes you'll hear about anecdotal evidence of marijuana shrinking tumors, for example.

That's the take - home message from a global survey of Ph.D. and master's students published today, which adds to the meager but growing literature on the subject and corroborates anecdotal evidence and discussion about the topic from recent years, including a number of personal tragedies and numerous testimonials and concerns expressed on social media and elsewhere.

I enjoyed reading about how she overcame all of those issues, but my favorite part of the book was her explanations on how she handled common objections, combated anecdotal evidence, and dealt with negativity from people who were threatened, and / or didn't understand why she chose to give up the standard American diet for a plant - based lifestyle.

Since the anecdotal evidence is so good (granted that it is anecdotal, but still...) if you're like us, you're thinking about giving this facial yoga stuff a go.

But if we are talking anecdotal evidence; what about the increase in Alzheimers, dementia, ADD, ADHD, BiPolar, autism, and a host of other mental illnesses that also plague modern post-fluoridation society?

Furthermore, anecdotal evidence suggests that the men who use the site are much more serious about actually meeting someone.

In addition to the multitude of evidence, there is much anecdotal support about benefits of outdoor education experiences; teachers, for example, often speak of the improvement they have in relationships with students following a trip.

While there is considerable anecdotal evidence that principals are important — including various movies about the charismatic principal or the bumbling bureaucrat, there has been very little systematic evidence about the magnitude of differences among principals or about their impact on student learning.

Enthusiasm for kitchen gardens in schools has swept across Australia over the past decade, springing up as tiny pocket - sized patches and vertical gardens in the inner city to expansive plots in country areas.Nobody knows what proportion of schools have a kitchen garden, but anecdotal evidence at least in New South Wales suggests about 50 per cent of primary schools now have them.

When told that the only evidence about parochial schools was anecdotal, Scalia added, «Oh, I don't think it's anecdotal at all.

However, save for anecdotal evidence, we know very little about whether and how state education policy makers take their voices into account — or any other voices, for that matter — when making policy decisions related to teacher evaluation and tenure.

In light of such anecdotal evidence, further research will be needed to learn more about the challenges that schools in choice programs face after a program is enacted.

While researchers are still collecting data about how the CSP curriculum affects students, principals and teachers are already seeing anecdotal evidence.

A main finding that emerges from the survey is that K - 3 teachers use observations, anecdotal evidence, informal inventories, and work samples as their main sources of evidence about children's reading achievement and progress.

This evidence can be recorded and used as feedback for students about their learning or as anecdotal data shared with them during conferences.

NCSECS recognizes the tendency to rely on anecdotal evidence in the conversation about special education in charter schools and seeks to address this issue by conducting select qualitative and quantitative research.

They had collected anecdotal evidence of what the problem might be but wanted to have more data in terms of family and student opinions about the situation.

Case studies and anecdotal evidence of this «deficit model» in practice are abundant in educational literature, but there is considerable disagreement about what policy initiatives most effectively counteract these low - expectations.

Those users care a lot about Goodreads» new policy, and anecdotal evidence, in the form of tweets and Goodreads posts, suggests that some of them are leaving the site and migrating to competitors like BookLikes,