Sentences with phrase «by empirical testing»

If it is corroborated by empirical testing (Feynman) we are getting closer to having a «corroborated hypothesis».

Not exact matches

However, spiritual matters, which are not subject to empirical testing (there is no way to physically measure love) should be tested in the crucible of human experience and present statistical evidence by consensual (that is consensus, not consent) validation before being granted the status of a universal principle or dogma.

Unlike peninsular constructs such as multiverse, which by themselves can not have any direct relation to the life - world, the construct of the visible universe possesses a heuristic quality of predicting some new properties of the universe that are subject to empirical testing (p. 289).

It is by reference, then, to the particular in this sense that the speculative views of the empirical theologian are empirically tested, justified, and revised.

According to Whitehead, this theory was arrived at by «the method of descriptive generalization» and is to be thought of as a «working hypothesis» finally to be tested by reference to empirical fact (AI chapter 15).

In a general way, then, and «on the whole,» our abandonment of theological criteria, and our testing of religion by practical common sense and the empirical method, leave it in possession of its towering place in history.

I'm given so many different v - gue versions by so many different types of religious individuals that it's really impossible to provide any kind of reasonable empirical test.

The conceptuality developed rationalistically provides hypotheses for empirical research that are often strikingly different from the ones actively tested by most scientists, since the latter work, largely unconsciously, out of a different metaphysics.

He has directly entered scientific fields with hypotheses suggested by his metaphysics, proposed testable hypotheses, and himself tested them against the empirical evidence.

By using «empirical» in this way, he lets ethics into the discussion, but he has already applied a more stringent empirical test for the word God.

By contrast, testing is an empirical, scientific operation.

In a random effects analysis, ALE scores were tested against a null hypothesis of random distribution across the brain, thereby identifying those regions where empirical ALE values were higher than could be expected by chance.

It uses a system of logic that is entirely different from Western medicine, but yet has a long empirical tradition that can be validated by medical testing.

But I'm also swayed by the argument, forcefully articulated by Whitehurst, who points to the body of empirical work suggesting that test scores — and value - added differences — matter.

These annual volumes make assertions about empirical facts («students» scores on the state tests used for NCLB are rising»; or «lack of capacity is a serious problem that could undermine the success of NCLB») and provide policy recommendations («some requirements of NCLB are overly stringent, unworkable, or unrealistic»; «the need for funding will grow, not shrink, as more schools are affected by the law's accountability requirements»).

Empirical data on the depth and breadth of test refusals are hard to come by.

Only one study, conducted by Jay Greene and Marcus Winters and focusing on the D.C. voucher program, found that voucher competition had no effect on the test scores of non-participants, while no empirical study of acceptable rigor has found that a U.S. private - school - choice program decreased the achievement of public school students.

Because of the improved estimation enabled by HLM, including the use of maximum likelihood and empirical Bayes estimates, interpretation of statistical results can be broadened to include a larger p - value associated with statistical tests.

To thoroughly test each vehicle, the competition began at our facility, where empirical data collection began by measuring how far each vehicle could drive up a 20 - degree ramp before a tire lifted off the ground.

Tortoriello introduces the book by stating, «This book was written with qualitative investors in mind, particularly those who wish to «understand» the stock market from a quantitative (empirical) point of view and who desire to integrate quantitative screens, tests, or models into their investment process — or simply into their thinking.»

And in empirical tests done by Microsoft, it did converge faster than a more Elo - like system that didn't use the probability stuff.

That is a purely empirical test of what is «good enough» — and not just «for government work» (which by the way is mildly offensive).

By their nature, studies of aspects of the past which can no longer be directly measured but which may be partially revealed by various proxies will never have complete reliability, but they ARE being properly and rigorously pursued by long tested scientific methods of working with any available empirical data that might help improve the picturBy their nature, studies of aspects of the past which can no longer be directly measured but which may be partially revealed by various proxies will never have complete reliability, but they ARE being properly and rigorously pursued by long tested scientific methods of working with any available empirical data that might help improve the picturby various proxies will never have complete reliability, but they ARE being properly and rigorously pursued by long tested scientific methods of working with any available empirical data that might help improve the picturby long tested scientific methods of working with any available empirical data that might help improve the picture.

One thing that always bothered me about the original Lasso test suite is that empirical AR1 null proxies (where the empirical set of estimated AR1 parameters is derived proxy - by - proxy) performed so much better than AR1 -LRB-.4).

Gathering empirical evidence and / or performance of reproducible experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments, in order to either validate the hypothesis, including seeking out data to falsify the hypothesis and scientifically refuting all falsification attempts.

Physics must always be justified by empirical observations, but very often the valid tests are much less obvious than non-scientists seem to think.

Fifth, even if real scientific investigation (which doesn't stop with modeling but tests models by empirical observation) could tell us that, say, falling 50 % short of net zero «carbon» emissions would raise GAT by, say, 3 ° C and that that, in turn, would cause significant harms, that wouldn't tell us how we ought to respond.

The scientific method demands that theories be tested by empirical observation.

A new paper has been published by the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics, authored by Nicola Scafetta, 2012: Testing an astronomically based decadal - scale empirical harmonic climate model versus the IPCC (2007) general circulation models.

Popper also states: «But I shall certainly admit a system as empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience.

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.

In order to test how well the tilt angle values, derived by this empirical relation, agree with the ones obtained by WSO, the root mean square (RMS) error between the two sets was estimated.

@manacker: The ONLY way to REALLY find out whether or not the «condensation driven winds» hypothesis proposed by Makarieva et al. is vaild is TO TEST IT with empirical data.

So I really do not see why those like Pekka Pirilä or Vaughan Pratt are so opposed to simply TESTING the hypothesis, to see if it is falsified or corroborated by empirical evidence.

The ONLY way to REALLY find out whether or not the «condensation driven winds» hypothesis proposed by Makarieva et al. is vaild is TO TEST IT with empirical data.

(Gillespie) This is one of the reasons why empiricists believe that hypotheses (or theory, which is derived from human reasoning) must always be put to the acid test, constantly verified by empirical methods and testing, and can never become fact.

The idea that limited scope work could improve access to legal help has been cited by many reports on access to justice, but no one has ever conducted any empirical research to test the idea, says [/ span] John - Paul Boyd, executive director of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family in Calgary.

The study was the first empirical test of how individuals are influenced by the geometrical shape of a seating [Read More]

We formally tested for mediation of the relation between IPV and obesity by maternal depression using a bootstrap method.49 Owing to theoretical and empirical data suggesting differing associations between family and neighborhood violence exposure and BMI by sex, additional stratified analyses were conducted and effect modification was tested using interaction terms.

By grounding the development and testing of acceptance and mindfulness treatments in empirical science, there is great potential to improve on current approaches to child and family treatments and more broadly to influence cultural change.»

As guidance, the supervised experience in psychological assessment should generally require submission of written reports of those assessments to the supervisor and should generally demonstrate the licensee's competence in the following areas: integration and interpretation of clinical history utilizing a clinical interview conducted by the licensee; intelligence testing; personality testing utilizing at least one objective personality inventory that is widely recognized and used in the field of psychology, has strong empirical foundations, and assesses global personality and psychological functioning; the formulation of appropriate diagnoses using the five axes specified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM); and the making of appropriate recommendations.

In contrast to ample research examining the moderating role (e.g., Moreno - Jiménez et al., 2009a), we will advance the stressor - detachment model by performing an empirical test and providing evidence for the existence of the proposed mediating influence of detachment.

This study connected two areas of research by focusing on empirical studies that have tested hypotheses drawn from social control theory and assumptions from attachment theory.

Although intuitively appealed and abundantly supported by empirical evidence, this claim was often tested by looking at groups in a static manner.