Sentences with phrase «by available empirical evidence»

Steven — Yet you expect me to believe in a theory based on a single paper presenting «results from a regional ice — ocean model» which is contradicted by the available empirical evidence?

«The evidence for the success of TVHR in this study depends on assumptions related to the reproductive physiology and behavioral ecology of domestic cats that, in our view, do not seem to be supported by available empirical evidence and remain to be better understood.»

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But when the legislation passed, the only available evidence about the program consisted of testimony; a dozen or so empirical studies by the program's own staff that used primitive quasi-experimental designs; and the most - cited single study confounded the court - ordered introduction of the program with a simultaneously ordered reduction in class sizes of 40 percent.

To learn more about the available empirical evidence on the effects of school choice programs, flip through this handy slide show, curated collectively and carefully by EdChoice's research team.

At any point over at least the last 50 years, a synthesis of available empirical evidence would have suggested, quite unambiguously, that students having difficulty at school, especially those disadvantaged by their socioeconomic backgrounds, learn more when they are working in heterogeneous rather than in homogeneous ability groups (e.g., Oakes, 1985; Yonezawa, Wells, and Serna, 2002).

While I am unconvinced by the arguments that a loss of biodiversity threatens humanity — largely because the available empirical evidence suggests otherwise — I believe that species extinctions impoverish the world in which we live, and support efforts to protect biodiversity, so long as they are suitably protective -LSB-...]

The most reliable empirical evidence available fails to shows anything that can't be accounted for by quite ordinary, smooth changes of a quasi-gaussian stochastic process.