Sentences with phrase «because prior observations»
This turns out to be a key insight because prior observations had supported the opposite rationale.
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logically prior to the actual business of scientific investigation because, in Polanyi's words, it is «a higher power that reveals to us knowledge lying beyond the range of observation and reason».
The estimates of ice loss also helped them calculate the amount of sea level rise contributed by the ice sheet prior to 1990 — a number missing from the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report because of the lack of direct observations.
In addition, researchers found (although we have known this prior) that «classroom observations have the potential of providing formative feedback to teachers that [theoretically] helps them improve their practice [more than VAMs]... [because] feedback from [VAMs]... is often too delayed and vague to produce improvement in teaching.»
The modern global temperature record begins around 1880 because observations did not cover enough of the planet prior to that time.
If you have an instrumental way to demonstrate this «disappearing from our visible spectrum» hypothesis, then all sunspot observations prior to the date that instrument began measuring must be all but thrown out, because we would have no clue what invisible priors existed, so the uncertainty of the pre-instrumental record would skyrocket.