Sentences with phrase «by empirical evidence from»

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Apart from being named by Alexander Nix in the video leak which blew up the scandal, there isn't much empirical evidence of Cambridge Analytica actually tampering with South American electoral processes.

Speculation about what nature is in itself, backed up by rational arguments, particularly about the mind - body problem, and empirical evidence from the sciences, is therefore a necessary dimension of a process Christian theology.

The argument from empirical evidence can be explained away by reference to the fallacy of post hoc, propter hoc.

So far our understanding of geological processes, such as how the landscape is sculpted by winds and waves, is based on empirical evidence from just one planet — our own.

The Academy was broad in its inclusion of all forms of empirical enquiry, and differed from the previously existing bodies in having a core mission of providing evidence - based advice to the government and the nation, as indicated by the motto: «Science for Society».

An enhanced greenhouse effect from CO2 has been confirmed by multiple lines of empirical evidence.

To incorporate empirical evidence when possible, we draw on data from interviews with 21 parents and surveys of 504 parents about the OneApp and school choice, conducted in the spring of 2014 by the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE).

Also in keeping with tradition, the first section features recent results from state, national, or international assessments; the second section investigates a thematic topic in education, either by collecting new data or by analyzing existing empirical evidence in a novel way; and the third section looks at one or more education policies.

We ca n`t say a priori whether shifting the weight of emphasis from informal to formal evidence for decision making will improve schools; it is an empirical question.226 The current emphasis on using student performance data to guide improvement efforts also calls for greater attention by those in schools to measurable patterns of student performance at the school level, or by student sub-groups, in addition to the conventional interest in individual student needs and progress.

The authors begin by challenging the educational community to engage in discussion and research on critical issues regarding the implementation of RTI — such as what is counted as empirical evidence, or issues of fidelity and generalizability — to prevent the strategy from becoming a deficit - based approach to sorting children.

That's very nice but, as requested by Jim and me, please cite specific references to empirical evidence (i.e. data derived from actual physical observations or reproducible experimentation) supporting the Myhre et al. quantitative estimate on CO2 radiative forcing.

I am just reiterating the concept so brilliantly defined by Feyman that a hypothesis, no matter how elegant the theoretical derivation and no matter from whom it came, isn't really worth very much unless it can be validated by empirical evidence, such as actual physical observation or reproducible experimentation.

My own perspective on this is that it would be a significant departure from earlier work by Trenberth if he really came with empirical evidence (i.e. data based on actual physical observations, rather than simply model simulations) to support his position.

Over the last couple of weeks, I've seen four major reports (details over the fold) from very different sources, all making the same point: decarbonizing the world economy will involve economic costs that are (a) small; and (b) far outweighed by the benefits And, the empirical evidence so far is strong.

It has been said that CAGW, as outlined by IPCC in its AR4 report, is impossible to falsify or corroborate with empirical scientific evidence from actual physical observations or reproducible experimentation.

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?

What The Science Says: An enhanced greenhouse effect from CO2 has been confirmed by multiple lines of empirical evidence.

This empirical evidence from the UK's climate research agency is the gold - standard, utilized by the UN's IPCC.

Could this close the gap between the climate sensitivity estimated by models and climate sensitivity estimated from empirical evidence (as in the draft IPCC AR5, WG1, or perhaps even down to what Nic Lewis is suggesting)?

As shown by the examples that Rob Ellison and I quoted from wikipedia, entities have B - E distributions when the empirical evidence shows that they have B - E distributions.

Professor Nordhaus chooses 3.0 degrees C for doubling of CO2, 9 a value that empirical evidence suggests is greatly exaggerated.10 To illustrate the point, for a climate sensitivity of 1.0 degree, a value suggested by a number of empirical studies, Professor Nordhaus's «DICE» model calculates that the optimum policy's net benefits drop from about $ 3 trillion to a net cost of about $ 1 trillion, and the benefit - to - cost ratio plunges from 2.4 to 0.5.

If the premise is not supported by empirical evidence, such as from real - time physical observations or reproducible experimentation, it remains an uncorroborated hypothesis.

Although there is limited evidence of ice - rafted debris in the Arctic from the Miocene and into the Eocene, suggesting some continental glaciation (Stickley et al., 2009; St. John and Krissek, 2002), empirical evidence suggests that widespread Northern Hemisphere glaciation did not occur until 2.75 Ma (Ravelo et al., 2004), which is substantiated by recent Pliocene paleotemperature SST estimates near Svalbard between 10 and 18 °C (Robinson, 2009).

Because the temperature gradient in a planet's troposphere is the state of thermodynamic equilibrium which the Second Law of Thermodynamics says will evolve, the planet's supported surface temperature is autonomously warmer than its mean radiating temperature, so warm in fact on Earth that we need radiating gases (mostly water vapour) to reduce the gradient and thus cool the surface from a mean of about 300K to about 288K, this being confirmed by empirical evidence (as in the study in my book) which confirms with statistical significance that water vapour cools rather than warms, all these facts thus debunking the greenhouse conjecture.

«''» Earth that we need radiating gases (mostly water vapour) to reduce the gradient and thus cool the surface from a mean of about 300K to about 288K, this being confirmed by empirical evidence (as in the study in my book) which confirms with statistical significance that water vapor cools rather than warms, all these facts thus debunking the greenhouse conjecture.

The Council's original Petition and First Supplement to Petition demonstrated that the Endangerment Finding is nothing more than assumptions that have each been disproved by the most relevant empirical evidence from the real world.

While we welcome respondent's introduction of empirical evidence on the effectiveness of Oregon's legal rules, its statistics are undermined by the fact that the Oregon average is computed from only two punitive damages awards.

Apart from being named by Alexander Nix in the video leak which blew up the scandal, there isn't much empirical evidence of Cambridge Analytica actually tampering with South American electoral processes.

For the review, 507 articles and 10 published rating scale manuals were compiled from empirical articles; traditional databases (Medline, PsychINFO); reference lists in review papers; references from the Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Attention - Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder5; recently published journal articles; citations suggested by members of the American Academy of Pediatrics; and a database of bibliographies on studies involving the Child Behavior Checklist rating scale.6 A physician and psychologist specializing in ADHD independently rated each article and manual for sound empirical evidence addressing the 4 questions.

It is important that the diagnosis of this condition by primary care providers be based on procedures supported by evidence from empirical investigations.

A major problem for the evaluation was the lack of a comparison group, or baseline data, to measure what would have happened in the absence of income management... the overall evidence about the effectiveness of income management in isolation from other NTER measures was difficult to assess... The evaluation findings would have greater strength if these views were supplemented by empirical indicators that showed evidence of the changes reported by the various stakeholders.

The present study suggests that this acceptance may have been premature... Results from this study indicate that the use of the IT / SCV typology does not consistently work better than a simple measure of the breadth of violent acts used by respondents» husbands to predict negative outcomes of partner violence victimization... [and] both of these measurement strategies fail to examine the general effect of husbands» control... The preliminary empirical evidence reported here suggests that these victims of coercive control are an unrecognized category of victims... IPV researchers should focus on the dynamics of coercive control in intimate abuse whether or not this control occurs in the context of physical violence.

The Bureau also believes that the structural flaws in HUD's 2008 RESPA Final Rule the Bureau identified in the proposal and described in this section - by - section analysis justify the Bureau taking this action in this final rule, even though the Bureau's empirical support rests on anecdotal evidence, rather than systemic data, because of the significant harm that can result from increased closing costs to consumers.