Sentences with phrase «anecdotal stories about»

Telling anecdotal stories about Warhol, Pollack, Basquiat, Van Gogh is both (A) fun and (B) has a mythical dimension... if they didn't, they wouldn't have had movies made about them.

Out - of - school activities in the United States also often include school sports, which are unfairly attacked in The Smartest Kids in the World, Ripley tells anecdotal stories about touring private schools with groups of parents who do not question the guide admitting the math program was weak but balk at the same statement about the football program.

Listen to anecdotal stories about teachers and student debt on NPR.

I'm already bracing myself for the inevitable backlash of self - proclaimed experts who will share their own anecdotal stories about how it's possible to maximize performance (and burn more fat!)

Although there are plenty of anecdotal stories about stowaway toads, there has been little detailed and reliable information on the topic, until recently.

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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.

Guests listened while Ms. Lauren shared her pathway to foster, adoption through Five Acres programs and told anecdotal stories (that garnered lots of laughs from the audience) and offered advice for people thinking about fostering or foster adoption.

I bumbled along contemplating that for quite some time, and I appreciated anecdotal stories online of people who had traded in «healthy whole grains» for flesh foods, and kept the vegetable intake about the same, and had stupendous results.

However, your link to the anecdotal success story at Forks Over Knives about one vegan bodybuilder carries equal clout as my anecdotal success story about my friend who eats an animal - protein - based diet — very little!

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.

Particularly compelling is his story about Triple Crown prospect Big Brown and the advantage of the «outside view» — the statistical one — over the «inside view» — the specific, anecdotal one (excerpted from the book):

Anecdotal stories abound about «internal organ» problems, or allergies, or immune system problems, or a shortened life span.

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.

However, given that the CAGW position doesn't rest on specific numbers, but is instead an unorganized collection of anecdotal evidence, coupled with heavily - tweaked computer models, unfounded assumptions about positive feedbacks, and a healthy imagination about possible future disasters, a lower warming number for the 20th century will simply be brushed over with claims about aerosols being stronger than previously thought, more warming still waiting in the «pipeline» or similar ad hoc «explanations» that keep the overall story alive.

Now four years later, there needs to be research on the efficacy of the project instead of regaling in the anecdotal success stories about which we hear.

There doesn't seem to be any exhaustive study or official repository of the swipe failure of smart credit cards beyond the anecdotal stories found online — but Ben Einstein of Bolt, writing about «The Failure of Coin», explains why that's still a problem: it's not a huge deal if, say, your fitness tracker isn't 100 % accurate in the number of steps it counts, but even one or two failures with something important like a credit card or door lock can be incredibly costly.

It's an anecdotal story that you've likely experienced or heard others complaining about over the years.

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Fathers have come — and especially black fathers have come, with anecdotal evidence, with moving and emotional stories about how their family was torn asunder and their efforts to try to get it back....

I've heard stories of strongarm tactics to acquire new homes, too but they are more anecdotal and I haven't seen articles about it.

Wein said everyone, government included, needs to be careful not to rely on «anecdotal» stories about the real estate market.