Sentences with phrase «by empirical evidence on»

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A lot of people say so based on myths and anecdotes, but an authoritative background study for the Mowat Centre Report on EI by Day and Winer found that «there is no evidence in the empirical literature that regional variation in the generosity of the employment insurance system has altered internal migration patterns in Canada in a substantial manner.»

The statement by many that «no one is born gay» however is not based on any sort of evaluation of empirical evidence but rather on a personal bias.

We can declare all other questions meaningless on the grounds that they can not be settled by empirical evidence.

By this line of argument, you are effectively conceding that your position is not based on empirical evidence, but is purely a faith - based position.

I can go on if you'd like, but this assertion: «Religion depends on pure faith, hope and wishes, totally unsupported by empirical evidence.

Religion depends on pure faith, hope and wishes, totally unsupported by empirical evidence.

Conservative apologists of old (and their current imitators, like Strobel) operated on the basis of evidentialism — the idea that we can and should believe only what can be supported by empirical evidence.

As far as evaluating empirical evidence goes, it is enough to check the reviews of compression stockings for nurses on Amazon to see how many people love and swear by them.

Upon discovering that he had just enjoyed a smoothie containing carrots, something he had previously claimed wasn't a possibility, the opportunity to rationally re-evaluate his assumptions based on empirical evidence (i.e. stop deceiving himself) was eclipsed by his emotional reaction to having been (harmlessly) deceived.

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.

Quiz Ref IDFemale physicians now account for approximately one - third of the US physician workforce17 and comprise half of all US medical school graduates.18 Despite evidence suggesting that female physicians may provide higher - quality care,1 - 4, 7,8,10,12 - 16 some have argued that career interruptions for childrearing, higher rates of part - time employment, and greater tradeoffs between home and work responsibilities19 may compromise the quality of care provided by female physicians and justify higher salaries among male physicians.20 - 22 Therefore, empirical evidence on whether patient outcomes differ between male and female physicians is warranted.

«We have built the beginnings of a multi-dimensional, connected structure influenced by theoretical perspectives, international evidence and empirical research, whilst keeping an eye on what new mathematics could be incorporated into a framework fit for the 21st Century.»

«There is some hope now that education can increasingly become a field where data may be brought to bear on many issues and we can demand in many areas that assertions be accompanied by 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).

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.

(See, for instance, this report by the former Friedman Foundation, now EdChoice, «A Win - Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice»....

Crucially, for many purposes the law also treats as evidence - based a fourth category comprising activities that have a research - based rationale but lack direct empirical support — provided, that is, that they are accompanied by «ongoing efforts to examine the effects» of the activity on important student outcomes.

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.

Our claim that these practices ought to be considered essential for successful leaders is based on reviews of empirical research and on illustrative original studies carried out in educational contexts.116 We also rely on a synthesis of evidence about managerial skills, compiled by Yukl (2002).

A recent review (McCarty & Wiley, 2011) notes that «there is compelling empirical evidence that strong, additive, academically rigorous Native language and culture programs have salutary effects on both Native language and culture maintenance / revitalization and student achievement, as measured by multiple types of assessments.»

A 2011 meta - analysis study of more than 30 studies (including the oft - cited 2011 Friedman Foundation Report) by the Center for Education Policy found that «the empirical evidence on vouchers is inconclusive and further found that any gains in student achievement are modest if they exist at all» (amicus brief, Schwartz v. López, 2016).

During closing remarks, Mr. Goldhaber made mention of and commended the efforts by DC Public Schools (DCPS) on being an exemplary model for other states to follow when creating policy that are clearly rooted in empirical evidence.

By definition, value weights are based on what we value rather than the data; therefore, this can not be resolved with empirical evidence.

Based on empirical evidence to date, there is a remarkable rate of abuse of U.S. schoolchildren by school personnel (e.g., teachers, coaches, bus drivers, administrators, custodians).

This research was summarized by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice in their 2016 report, A Win - Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice.

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.

A 2015 research study by Professor Daniel Mills, Professor or Veterinary Behavioural Medicine at the University of Lincoln's School of Life Sciences in the UK, along with Alice Potter, formerly with the Companion Animals Science Group at the RSPCA, concluded what a lot of us already know based on empirical evidence: Our dog are much more dependent on us than our cats are.

The ASPCA's policies are based on empirical evidence and are supported by scientific research that establishes animals» capacity to feel pain and suffer.

«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.»

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.

This adjacent plot of 5 - year temperature change versus 5 - year atmospheric CO2 level change is based on the most recent empirical evidence published by the government's GISS / NASA scientists (and they happen to be some of the largest proponents of chicken little global warming calamities).

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.

Well, Lewandowsky is after all a Professor of Psychology, which is hardly a discipline founded on and guided by empirical evidence.

Eventually, I got you to address the science by forcing you to address the six statements of empirical evidence that I had posted on this blog.

You have given me a lot of verbiage and most recently a list of items, which I have gone through point by point to demonstrate to you that you have provided no empirical evidence to support the IPCC CAGW claim (as I outlined it for you, based on the AR4 report).

The truth of the matter is that IPCC's CAGW premise as stated in AR4, which is based on a climate sensitivity of 3.2 C, is not supported by empirical scientific evidence (Feynman)

My opinion (based on empirical evidence) is that Humans can affect the total atmospheric CO2 concentration by < 5 %.

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?

If empirical evidence, based on raw data, tested and verified by skeptical scientists, using the same code, algorithms and methods used by Michael Mann, Phil Jones, the IPCC or anyone else showed a cause and effect relationship between rising anthropogenic CO2 emissions followed by rising global temperatures, the amount of which could be quantified and measured, I would have to accept that catastrophic AGW was the likely cause.

Despite this significant model shortcoming affecting all climate models, more empirical evidence is being accumulated by both satellites and climate experts that indicate clouds have a much greater impact on temperatures than CO2 levels in the atmosphere than previously understood.

For decades, the mainstream journalists have dutifully reported hysterical alarmism generated by a minority of scientists dedicated to the concept of human CO2 - caused catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW)... this style of sensationalist, tabloid «climate science» journalism however is dependent on either a condition of stuck - on - stupid mentality or a highly biased, politically motivated political agenda, not on scientific empirical evidence

The vast majority of hard - science research scientists are now coming to the belief that the climate models used by the UN's IPCC and major climate agencies are seriously in error, based on this latest research and empirical evidence.

Instead of unravelling the conduct of Jones and his Team, the «inquiries» have been wilfully obtuse, both refusing to ask the salient questions and determining the matter on empirical findings that were either blatantly untrue or unsupported by the evidence that they collected.

-LSB-...] The idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s.

The «hiding» excuse has been picked up by mainstream science journalists without their doing any due diligence on the veracity of the IPCC statement or at least reviewing the actual empirical evidence.

However, I am rationally skeptical that AGW has had or will have any major impact on our climate (and, hence, of the CAGW premise as outlined by IPCC in its AR4 report), until empirical scientific evidence can be presented to show that this is, indeed, the case.

I have pointed out to docrichard that I am rationally skeptical of the IPCC CAGW premise as outlined in AR4, which is based on a mean value for 2xCO2 ECS of 3.2 C, as this premise and the ECS estimate upon which it is based is not corroborated by empirical scientific evidence (Feynman)

The hypothesis that the biota exerts a real and significant regulating effect on our climate sounds reasonable, even if it's not corroborated by any empirical evidence.

So, even allowing my error in criticizing you on the orbital mechanics, your theory stands refuted by empirical evidence.

On the other hand, empirical evidence suggests that recurrent flooding is usually associated with decreasing vulnerability (e.g., Wind et al. 1999; Kreibich and Thieken 2009; Jongman et al. 2015), due to the enhanced resilience and coping capacity acquired by the society during previous events (so - called «adaptation effect»).