Sentences with phrase «anecdotal stories in»

That most religions» «bibles» have similar anecdotal stories in them to try to teach lessons and that some have been twisted in more modern translations to say things they didn't say before?

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While anecdotal, such personal stories tend to bring home the fact that rank speculation seems to be in full bloom in the housing market.

In virtually every anecdotal healing story I've heard, separating fact from fiction becomes troublesome.

For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the history, such as the denomination's response to the New Order of the Latter Rain.

They were not great books — anecdotal in style, personal in story — but an appealing spirit of discerning grace permeated everything he wrote.

Now, as someone who studies food science and reads clinical studies in his free time, I know this story is anecdotal.

What you are describing in terms of anecdotal stories of «more women are breadwinners» is true, but anecdotal.

And because so much of it is personally skewed to the anecdotal — which means the stories are often played out in case - by - case scenarios — our personal experiences often seem trumped by the assumption that they are, in fact, universal.

The Times story concludes by noting anecdotal evidence that kids eating well in school bring their improved eating habits home, in turn influencing their families:

Of course, anecdotal evidence — in the form of first - person accounts of BIC success — also can help you tell the story and overcome stakeholder resistance.

Anecdotal evidence — unverified stories — prior to the 1970s described a zebra migration from the Okavango Delta to the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans at the start of the rainy season in September and continuing through April, but from 1968 to 2004, veterinary fences prevented zebras from making the migration.

«We have already heard anecdotal stories of the Brexit vote causing immediate disruption to career plans, investments, and roles in new consortia that are forming,» the group says on its website.

There is a great deal of anecdotal evidence and stories from people who have used camel dairy in cases of autism.

** Success Stories should be considered anecdotal, consumers may not experience the same results as set forth in these testimonials

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.

Proof isn't in the pudding; that's called anecdotal evidence and doesn't account for the placebo effect, which is 99 % of the way these unscrupulous industries stay in business, the other 1 % being the foolishness of the victims they trick into believing their stories.

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.

Eager to show his clear - eyed wisdom through rhapsodic reveries on how evil the world is, Cimber tells his favourite story here and in the docu of how the MPAA didn't like the incest and pedophilia stuff in the flick, as though he were imparting a nugget of incalculable anecdotal value.

However, Sellers isn't interested in much more than the anecdotal value of all this and after the first 100 pages the stories blur into one long binge of sex, booze and violence.

Much of the anecdotal information is what he received from John Burris, the prosecuting attorney working on Oscar Grant's case, as well as Oscar's family, so, of course, Coogler is not only hearing one side of the story, but also has allegiances to those who helped him research this story to tell Oscar's tale in a manner respectful to their interests.

The only data they have are anecdotal stories, like the ones presented below, or the few small - scale reports, like Matthew Chingos and Guido Schwerdt's study of Florida Virtual School (FLVS), which found no evidence that quality is poorer in the online environment.

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.

GUIDEPOSTS http://www.guideposts.org/writers-guidelines A typical Guideposts story is a first - person narrative written in simple, dramatic, anecdotal style.

While these stories are anecdotal evidence from AES customers, they might reflect bigger trends with communication and customer service in the company as a whole.

The results of the Phase I Study of Pets in the Classroom confirmed the anecdotal stories that teachers have been relating.

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.

Well, old geezers will claim that in the 1930s there were good summers, — but these are just anecdotal stories.

The robin story is purely anecdotal but the article published on the same day as yours by Jim Robbins (no relation to earlier robin) entitled «In a Warmer Yellowstone Park, a Shifting Environmental Balance» is also an example of the NYT conveying science to the readership.

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.

For more on the terrestrial foods topic, see my detailed discussion in this previous post, and this recent (March 30) ScienceNews report on yet another, largely anecdotal «polar bears resort to bird eggs because of declining sea ice» story (see photo below, based on a new paper by Prop and colleagues), which was also covered March 31 at the DailyMail («Polar bears are forced to raid seabird nests as Arctic sea ice melts — eating more than 200 eggs in two hours,» with lots of hand - wringing and sea ice hype but little mention of the fact that there are many more bears now than there were in the early 1970s around Svalbard or that the variable, cyclical, AMO (not global warming) has had the largest impact on sea ice conditions in the Barents Sea).

When we did a road tour to visit the communities that were impacted by coal pollution, we found many anecdotal stories of people saying, yes, my husband, my father, my wife died of lung cancer and never smoked a day in her life.

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.

In its Dec. 18 story on the ATRA report, The National Law Journal noted that the report «is based on anecdotal evidence» and that ATRA «does not provide a methodology used to reach results.»

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.

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You have the option to share your personal story in the survey if you would like to provide anecdotal evidence of the importance of PSLF.

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.

Leavy - Detrick noted that you should prepare a few anecdotal stories that speak to your strengths, such as how you turned around a difficult situation, achieved a success or stepped up in any way.

In the article, Rosen — Founder and CEO of background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR)-- writes that while the NCLC report suggested «inaccurate criminal background checks are widespread,» the report only cited «a handful of anecdotal stories and some court cases where an inaccurate background check had grave consequences on a consumer's ability to get a job out of the millions of background checks conducted yearly.»

In the article, Rosen writes that while the NCLC report «suggests inaccurate criminal background checks are widespread,» the report only «cites a handful of anecdotal stories and some court cases where an inaccurate background check had grave consequences on a consumer's ability to get a job out of the millions of background checks conducted yearly.»

South Africa About Blog In my wildlife photographic blog, my wildlife images are the central focus, but I also intend using a «popular science» approach to relaying interesting information about the wildlife and anecdotal stories, either describing personal experiences, or stories and information heard from wildlife guides.

These complaints are frighteningly easy to make, and are the origin of every small therapy practice compliance review story I have heard in my (once again, anecdotal) experience.

I guess in many ways, I've been committed to this noble task not only out of reverence to my late Dad and his commitment, but to this anecdotal story that occurred 42 years ago.