Sentences with phrase «anecdotes do»

But the human - caused nature of climate disruption is fundamentally a scientific question, so anecdotes don't belong in the discussion.

Anecdotes don't have margins of uncertainty.

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.

Anecdotes don't mean anything.

The introduction should be about your own life, but the other stories and anecdotes do not need to be about you.

I know that a few anecdotes don't make a trend but last month The Bookseller published an article on a growing trend for agents to recommend vanity publishing.

In any case, such anecdotes do not constitute scientific evidence that the dead survive or that they can communicate with us via electronic equipment.

Anecdotes do not equal data.

I know that anecdotes don't = evidence, but for what it is worth, my son who was breastfed for 2.5 years, has now been in school for 3 years and has not had to see a doctor once since being in school (other than annual check - ups / vaccinations).

Personal anecdotes don't prove a thing without evidence to back them up.

Anecdotes don't apply to statistical generalities.

This anecdote does not mean that Pope Francis will always agree to perform his official role in the traditional way.

We're saying that your positive ANECDOTE doesn't trump all the DATA that exists.

But one anecdote does not a gospel make.

Your anecdote doesn't change the fact that a baby born at home in the US is statistically 18x more likely to require cooling therapy.

Even having many anecdotes does not prove tests harm education.

Others would tell you that one anecdote doesn't reflect a market, and especially in real estate, it's all local.

Not exact matches

Dyson relayed a recent anecdote of meeting with a young CEO, and offered five things the young woman did right to pique her interest.

His disdain for fluff had him forgo examples, anecdotes and personal stories, because he didn't want to waste his team's time.

In other words, don't try to influence or entertain these folks with story or anecdotes.

Another anecdote, when we were working on the paper we had to do some quick calculations and add three numbers: 30, 40 and 50.

«It's now been nearly 17 years since it was first implemented and it is time to do a cost - benefit analysis, and to find out if the act is as effective as anecdotes might suggest it is,» he said.

«I've heard anecdotes of people who have never downloaded a movie on iTunes doing that for this movie.»

Anecdotes found online at first seem unbelievable: floor staff cheerfully accepting unabashedly damaged returns, no questions asked; Nordstrom employees helping mall shoppers carry purchases from other stores to their cars; and an often - repeated tale about a customer in Anchorage, Alaska, who returned a set of tires to a Nordstrom location — despite the fact that the chain doesn't actually sell tires.

Don't waste energy filling up conversations with personal anecdotes.

There are many other ways in which the Daniels interview rings true beyond this one paragraph, but this anecdote about sharks helps us understand that the Trump with whom we're familiar did not suddenly become who he is when he announced his candidacy in June 2015.

With lively anecdotes and substantive evidence, Vitaliy teaches investors how to navigate and profit from a «do nothing» market.

I make fun of the policy shallowness of Romney's convention speech and how he tried to use personal anecdotes to try to get people to like him without giving any real idea of what he would try to do as president.

But a lot of it does take the form of anecdotes — stories of other people and how they managed their own money.

Since the Enlightenment, examples have been relegated to the level of anecdotes: they don't constitute real knowledge or evidence.

I'm honestly asking — when I do not know these people or their story, but I do know the murkiness and agony of divorce — is it wrong of me to not want to rush to grab a pitchfork after hearing just one side in a series of anecdotes derived from a divorce?

It makes me wonder how much pressure we feel to sanitize our stories so that they don't make people uncomfortable, how we anecdote our experience with the lightness or the healing or birth or new life alone in order to make it acceptable.

I had turned my son's birth story into an anecdote and in so doing, I had lessened the power of our experience.

I hope that in his next book, Turner does a little more of this, for it transforms his funny, sometimes bizarre anecdotes into more relatable, human stories and makes the reader feel more like a participant and less like an observer.

Yes, news reports do factor in this, as do case studies, academic studies, anecdotes, etc..

I would challenge not only the anecdotes in the story, which I don't think are anything but lies or half - truths at best, but also the numbers, because the resurrection and the rapture are two entirely different things — although they're both equally ridiculous notions to posit.

Do you consciously keep all the funny anecdotes for posterity?

-- forgetting that ancient religious writers, unlike scholarly historians, did not as a rule feel it incumbent upon them to give, in a footnote or otherwise, their source for every anecdote or event, or to anticipate the modern reader's constant query, «How can we know that what you say is true, in every detail?»

Why did He use little stories and parables and anecdotes?

The pro-con format of the Times feature supplies anecdotes, but it doesn't answer the question of how people are applying the Bible to the debate on a wider scale.

A vast industry churns out anecdote, rumor and celebrity scandal for voracious millions («Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,» «Entertainment Tonight») What vacuum does this outbreak of gossip fill in our public discourse?

This anecdote communicates a simple but dynamic truth about growth that is often overlooked — that a major dreamsquelcher which causes us to postpone our potentializing indefinitely is the belief that «I can't do what I'd really like to do because...» If you feel some serious inner or outer obstacles to making creative changes in your life, welcome to the human race!

The issue here is whether the claim is supported or not and as you didn't see fit to respond to my pointing out Tour's failure to identify specific deficiencies, I take this as your concession that his claim, as provided in your linked articles, was supported not by citing evidence, but rather by referencing anecdotes.

And seriously all you Bible beaters out there, you do realize that the modern Bible is a collection of anecdotes, dreams, and interpretations all gathered over several hundred years right?

Nor do Placher's anecdotes address my interest in seeing, for example, how political, historical and ethnographic interpretations of the persistent conflicts in what we call the Middle East would be reinterpreted from the biblical view.

Regarding (3), my question about our ability to see our daily lives absorbed by the biblical world, Placher uses anecdotes which, unfortunately, do not address the complexity of my initial inquiry about postliberal theology I agree that visions of the world which try to dictate details collapse.

If anyone wishes to have it ignored, I will use it to tell a little anecdote, in order to show that it nevertheless does exist.

I had no idea that excessively eating one food could give you a food allergy until I read Felicia's eloquent discussion of her avocado allergy (really, her entire journey of overhauling her diet is fascinating and worth a read) and in doing research since then, I've come across more and more anecdotes about similar occurrences.

OK so I thought the anecdotes about the bees trying to get in or even make their way in the house were cute and funny, but I didn't really think much about it actually happening.

Oooh a great anecdote; school reunions... the thing I loved about the end of school was never having to see the certain people I didn't like, ever again...