Sentences with phrase «anecdotal observations of»

It would not be ethical to intentionally create stressful situations for the animals as a test, she notes — which is why, until now, researchers have had to rely on well - documented but anecdotal observations of wild and captive elephants to back up claims that they reassure each other.

Anecdotal observations of patients dating back to the 1700s had already provided a curious clue that pointed to the immune system as a possible player in the body's fight to ward off cancer.

A new study claims to offer mathematical backing for an anecdotal observation of historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson, who observed that decision making breaks down in committees of 20 or more people.

Not exact matches

Here are some observations from a Catholic young woman whose life «sucks» in the midst of prosperity: In my experience (I readily grant all of the problems with drawing inferences from individual and anecdotal observation), highly eligible men in my social set delay marriage for no good....

But critics of Mr. de Blasio, many of them in agreement with Mr. Lynch's Saturday decree that «blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall, in the office of the mayor,» say the city is quite divided under Mr. de Blasio, an observation that polling and anecdotal evidence supports.

That's consistent with my anecdotal observations in recent months, as there's little evidence of any great support for Pataki among New York Republicans.

There are two primary ways to get involved: 1) Sign - Up to monitor a patch of milkweed weekly, or 2) Submit occasional Anecdotal Observations.

In contrast to most other bird groups, parrots have a prominent tongue, raising the possibility that tongue movements may also be of significant importance in vocal production in parrots, but evidence is rare and observations often anecdotal.

«Previous to using edTech apps, my assessment of skill gaps in student learning was, at best, approximate and anecdotal; that is, I estimated these gaps based on anecdotal observations from class discussion and student evaluations such as unit tests,» said Kevin Neal, a social studies teacher at Valley High School in the West Des Moines school district in Iowa, USA.

«Twenty years ago, before this body of evidence existed, there was some excuse for making policy based on speculation, anecdotal observation, and intuition.

Anecdotal evidence from samples of student work, teacher observation journals, student surveys, and parent comments all pointed to the power of learning organized around an authentic problem and the production of video.

Results from objective tests Results from rubric assessment Anecdotal results — samples of student work, teacher observation journals, student surveys, parent comments

Sixteen of the 17 teacher - learners provided anecdotal evidence from student surveys, teacher observation journals, and parent comments.

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.

Focusing on both principal performance standards and research - based, high - yield strategies, Dr. Jan Rozelle (2012) and her colleagues developed several teacher observation and feedback tools to give principals the opportunity to assess the variety of research - based teacher behaviors exhibited during an observation, as well as make anecdotal comments.

The incorporation of anecdotal notes and checklists with direct observation will allow teachers to review this data at a later point if needed.

My claim that their slow adoption may be for other reasons than the stated ones is because I see a dearth of empirical evidence for that claim and instead see common sense observations and anecdotal evidence.

Because of our life experience & anecdotal observations.

But in this case, I'd say your anecdotal observation is correct: All else equal, announcements of layoffs tend to drive stock prices upwards.

Hopefully, as case is made for the potential value of diversification and long - term investment horizons in an attempt to overcome short - term swings and anecdotal observations.

But a couple of anecdotal observations seem in order.

30 years of satellite data is trivial when there is no baseline point of reference; and anecdotal (observations) evidence shows that an ice free North Pole is not unprecedented.

My argument was that with «anecdotal evidence» you have no way of distinguishing «evidence» from lies or from mistaken observations.

Isn't it about time that historical climatology and science - that currently likes to discount observations as «anecdotal» but cheerfully uses other proxies - cooperated more closely so we can gain a more reliable climatic picture of the last 1000 - 2000 years?

This is a good example of why it is unreliable to base judgments about patterns in mainstream news coverage based on anecdotal observation and / or statements made by bloggers.

Can you accurately assess systematic patterns in false balance through anecdotal observation, personal reading of articles or via blogging?

Buoys provide key observations for mapping and attributing summer ice loss: drift, bottom vs. top melt, amount of snow accumulation, nature of ponds (even if anecdotal from web cams), and thickness of level ice.

The difficulty with many of the recent anecdotal observations as well as the larger studies is that distributions of plants, and especially animals, can be hard to map.

Aside from our own anecdotal observations (for example, many of us working in the legal industry know recent lawyers who didn't graduate from a top - 50 law school and still found good jobs), is there a credible case to be made that law school is still a good economic choice for college graduates?

A Geekbench test of processor performance seemed to bear out those anecdotal observations.

Also, your anecdotal observations are correct — humility is one of the 3 least common endorsed character strengths consistently around the world.

In conclusion, this Psych Today article contains a list of unscientific dating advice, perhaps based on anecdotal observations or experiences in the context of therapy (the author is a clinical psychologist).