Sentences with phrase «by flawed analysis»

Updated, July 23, 1:40 p.m. A new study of methods used to track Antarctic sea ice trends has raised important questions about whether recent increases in ice there are, to a significant extent, an illusion created by flawed analysis of data collected by a series of satellites.

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In what one software engineer calls «the most demonically clever computer security attack I've seen in years,» researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a way to insert a hidden security flaw into a microprocessor chip that can't be detected by any known method of security analysis.

Even by the hedge fund's own flawed analysis, DuPont under Kullman has been a profit machine.

Americans for Annuity Protection has engaged in active outreach to leaders of influence to establish the argument that the DOL's fiduciary rule should be returned because of the analysis performed by the department is flawed, inconclusive and arbitrary; it is not compatible with the Uniform Security Law or established insurance law, and the law has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standard.

While most laypeople won't likely want to read the entire analysis and rebuttal of Wax's work, it is significant because these researchers pretty much refute all of Wax's work and show, step by step, how flawed the study was and how referencing this study as a basis for decision making is also flawed.

This means that any individual flaw or bias in any one article gets weighed out by the many other studies in the meta - analysis.

Last week, the Monkey Cage published a post by Alexander Motyl, a Ukrainian specialist at Rutgers - Newark, on the Five fatal flaws in realist analysis of Russia and Ukraine.

Financial secretary to the Treasury Mark Hoban told Channel 4 News the IFS report was «selective», with «flawed assumptions» and stressed that the government stood by its initial analysis that the budget was «fair and progressive».

Your readers may want to know that the interpretation and analysis provided by geologist Tom Rockwell, and on which the story is based, is in our view both flawed and highly editorialised.

• GLOBAL WARMING Physicist Richard A. Muller, although convinced that climate change is real, potentially dangerous and probably caused in part by humans, has disagreed with many climate scientists, asserting that their measurements and analyses are deeply flawed.

Among the areas determined to be flawed and in need of more research are: accuracy and error rates of forensic analyses, sources of potential bias and human error in interpretation by forensic experts, fingerprints, firearms examination, tool marks, bite marks, impressions (tires, footwear), bloodstain - pattern analysis, handwriting, hair, coatings (for example, paint), chemicals (including drugs), materials (including fibers), fluids, serology, and fire and explosive analysis.

Now a study by MIT linguistics professors and a team from Carleton University, based on an experiment with children between the ages of 3 and 6, proposes a new explanation, with a twist: In examining this apparent flaw, the researchers conclude that children deploy a more sophisticated mode of logical analysis than many experts have previously realized.

However, according to a new analysis, the apparent paradox may be explained by the simple fact that BMI is a very flawed measurement.

In addition, the pre-A-Plus Florida analysis reported by the Economic Policy Institute is plagued by several research design flaws.

«The new analysis from the Productivity Commission highlights the way enrolments have been calculated to date meant they could be flawed by showing all students in the year before school had been enrolled by comparing four and five year olds in preschool with just the population of four year olds.»

The flaw of selection on dependent variable analyses is so obvious that it is shocking that education policy debates continue to be shaped by them.

Our analysis of its workings in Florida reveals it to be badly flawed and not as accurate as the measuring stick employed by the state of Florida for similar purposes.

However, as pointed out by several other witnesses, since the key performance measure used by these entities is student performance on the STAAR test, which many consider a flawed measure, the resulting productivity / efficiency analysis would be flawed as well.

And flawed educational research conclusions have been made by using poverty in data analyses.

But the media blurbs that followed the report's publication fail to dig into the flawed analyses and vacuous recommendations pitched by its authors, Professors Gary Orfield, Jongyeon Ee and Ryan Coughlan Guttman.

«A 1990 report produced by the Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories broke down the flaws in the «A Nation at Risk» analysis but got little attention.

The report is recommended by education historian and school privatization opponent Diane Ravitch, who notes that the report «also includes an analysis of flaws in existing oversight, recommendations for reform, and an appendix of instances of fraud and abuse from 1997 through 2017.»

... However, I stand by my earlier prediction — and this is where I find a flaw in Mahaney's analysis: Apple won't stand still and let Amazon have this market all to itself.

However, doing the analysis, especially by hand, you could see some of the flaws in the P / E based approach.

One source of badly flawed analysis revolves around the establishment of a comparative analysis «strawman,» to wit, the thesis that all investors should be judged solely by the extent to which their results outperform, or equal, the performance of a related market or index consistently.

So many journals these days publish dubious or flawed or merely unclear analyses that quickly get picked up and respun lamely by the traditional media like a bad game of telephone.

So, there is no real hope that Miskolczi will ever understand the global warming problem despite his line - by - line modeling and his deeply flawed analysis of observational data.

That doesn't mean there's no possibility whatsoever of Gleick having faked the memo, but so far I find the speculation on why «it is probably fake and Peter Gleick is a liar» to be highly flawed, including pseudo «independent analyses» by individuals who've enjoyed the hospitality of HI, if not their cheque book, and bat for the same ideological side.

That figure actually represents 179,000 «person - years of employment» — a job for one person for one year — and comes from an analysis funded by TransCanada that independent analysts have called «dead wrong,» «meaningless,» and «flawed and poorly documented.»

These Russian experts in particular have a history of opposing international climate treaties (based on flawed expert analysis, as determined by other experts in the linked paper below):

We might have a post by Rud which seems sophisticated in its analysis (even if potentially analytically flawed) which is then followed up by his highly tribalistic comments related to the politics associated with climate change science.

The website and group were formed in May 6, 1997, «to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific and risk analysis.»

Until such time as these recent analyses are proven flawed it should be accepted that any increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations caused by the use of fossil fuels has negligible impact upon the global climate.

«Both [Fall et al. 2011 and Menne et al. 2010](and cited by Muller et al) do an analysis over a thirty year time period while the Muller et al paper uses data for comparison from 1950 — 2010... I see this as a basic failure in understanding the limitations of the siting survey we conducted on the USHCN, rendering the Muller et al paper conclusions highly uncertain, if not erroneous... I consider the paper fatally flawed as it now stands, and thus I recommend it be removed from publication consideration by JGR until such time that it can be reworked... it appears they have circumvented the scientific process in favor of PR.»

It is reasonable to expect that if flaws exist then detailed alternative analyses would have been on record by now showing clearly where and how it is considered that these scientists have erred

These estimates are based on an analysis by the Perryman Group — funded by TransCanada — that independent analysts have called «dead wrong,» «meaningless,» «flawed and poorly documented.»

Time and again, these experts find that Lomborg's assertions and analyses are marred by flawed logic, inappropriate use of statistics and hidden value judgments.

The Cooler Heads Coalition was formed on May 6, 1997, «to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific and risk analysis.»

Never mind the flaws in Wegman's analysis and conclusions that have been extensively critiqued by numerous peer - reviewed and reputable scientific bodies.

The Cooler Heads Coalition's initial mission was to «dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis.»

published last November found significant flaws in the methodologies, assumptions or analyses used by the 3 percent of scientists who concluded otherwise.

Ninety - seven percent of peer - reviewed research agrees with the conclusion that burning fossil fuels, deforestation and industrial farms are enshrouding the planet in heat - trapping gases, and a research review published last November found significant flaws in the methodologies, assumptions or analyses used by the 3 percent of scientists who concluded otherwise.

Reasonable folks, who have believed in the «skeptic» meme will probably acknowledge that they got fooled by internal natural variability and scientifically flawed statistical analysis presented to them by «skeptics».

Muller spent two years investigating claims by global - warming deniers that temperature rises verified by multiple studies were skewed because of flawed analysis, unreliable weather stations and the effect of urban heat islands.

The Cooler Heads Coalition, also known as GlobalWarming.org, is formerly a sub-group of the National Consumer Coalition, but now run as an «informal and ad - hoc group focused on dispelling the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis.»

In 2008, the Bush administration released a new proposal for fuel economy standards that were slightly better but still far too low; they were determined through a fatally flawed analysis employing numerous assumptions defying common sense and the law, such as a prediction that gas will cost $ 2.36 per gallon in 2020 and an assumption that technological solutions available now can't be employed by automakers a few years from now.

Along the same lines, I do not find credible arguments that any product of peer review is therefore inherently corrupted by tribalism — any more than I feel that any «skeptical» analysis in the «skeptical» blogosphere is inherently flawed due to tribalism among «skeptics» as a group.

The British Met Office has issued «erroneous statements and misrepresentations» about the pause in global warming — and its climate computer model is fundamentally flawed, says a new analysis by a leading independent researcher.

The briefing was hosted by the Heritage Foundation and the Cooler Heads Coalition, an anti-regulatory-minded group formed to «dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific and risk analysis.»

Eventually, M&M found massive flaws with Mann's statistical approach, flaws that have since been confirmed by many experts, such that there are few people today that treat Mann's analysis seriously (At best, his supporters defend his work with a mantra roughly akin to «fake but accurate.»