Sentences with phrase «by social science evidence»

The direction these changes set out for the Canadian criminal justice system — jail more often, for longer, with more lasting consequences — is a dangerous route that is unsupported by the social science evidence and has already failed in other countries.

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since God made homosexuals, and all these heterosexuals keep producing gay kids and we have evidence of homosexuality occurring in another animals as well as neuroscience and social sciences since 1963 stating that being gay isn't a disease but a natural orientation and since the writers of the bible would have no clue that it could be an orientation (just as they could have no idea that the world isn't flat, not up on pillars, nor is it surrounded by water, nor was the earth created from a leviathan carcass) thus it is permissible and subject to the same statutes heterosexuals are.

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

In my opinion what has happened in this area is that a kind of social ideology is now embedded within the medical paradigm, to the extent that that social judgments are masquerading as scientific judgments making the science a pseudo science, as a relatively small number of people have been placed in a position wherein they can choose what relevant lines of evidence (and what counter arguments) are acceptable and which are not, as deemed by themselves.

The report — «If you could do one thing...» Nine local actions to reduce health inequalities — brings together evidence from a wide range of social sciences, and has been led by a steering group of academic and policy experts.

As evidenced by the social science research referenced in the pending legislation, those slurs have negative consequences for groups targeted by the epithets.

Moreover, the entire article is gainsaid by a massive meta - analysis study by Northwestern University psychologist Michael Bailey and his colleagues published in the September issue of the peer - reviewed journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, showing that «there is considerably more evidence supporting nonsocial causes of sexual orientation than social causes.»

«Apparently, the national conversation really is one conversation, at least among those able to participate in social media; even if they do not interact with each other, the evidence indicates that they are being influenced in similar ways by the news media,» Harvard University professor Gary King and his colleagues write in the Science paper.

Riley evaluates these policies by combining evidence from leading social - science research with personal stories about his experiences as a black male.

Nor do they challenge the educational benefits of diversity in college, a fact consistently established by evidence gained through social science research (see, for example, the 2002 article I coauthored with Patricia Gurin, Eric Dey, and Gerald Gurin in 2002, «Diversity and Higher Education: Theory and Impact on Educational Outcomes,» published in the Harvard Educational Review).

Her work is focused on social and emotional learning, and is anchored by a commitment to bringing evidence - based solutions from the learning sciences to practical implementation at scale.

Gardner tackled this question by drawing on a wide array of evidence from the sciences and social sciences.

Studies that account for student background by assigning charter seats on the basis of applicant lotteries — research generally considered the gold standard for social science — have provided some of the strongest evidence for positive charter effects.

Emphasis was placed on the current science landscape and how it supports and overlaps student learning in math, ELA, and social studies by examining the skills of engaging in argument from evidence and supporting student discourse in the classroom in each of these content areas.

Some evidence suggests that this pressure, coupled with the reality of operating a school or district on a limited budget, meant educators often began to focus more time on those tested subjects at the expense of others, like social studies, science, and the arts — a logical response to the incentives created by the accountability system and tough budget choices.

Social and emotional learning, or SEL, refers to evidence - based practices informed by rigorous, systematic social science that underscore the way we understand, use, and manage emotions to Social and emotional learning, or SEL, refers to evidence - based practices informed by rigorous, systematic social science that underscore the way we understand, use, and manage emotions to social science that underscore the way we understand, use, and manage emotions to learn.

I was at a dinner a couple weeks back at which several journalists spoke on just this issue, and Shankar Vedantam and Chris Mooney made a good case for what I have also suggested (including in my reply to you on April 6); What's really irrational is for smart people, in support of the myth of perfect rationality and frustrated by the public's «ignorance» about risk, to ignore the mountains of evidence from neuroscience and social sciences about how human perception and decision - making actually works, about risk or anything else.

«I was irked by the persistent use of wishy - washy terminology such as «likely» and «very likely» that was totally uncalled for... Such «social sciences» terminology might be allowable if there was no other available evidence for global warming except for the statistical analysis of a relatively short global temperature time - series (on which there is superimposed a substantial natural variability component).

Faced with the Omerta in the media and the social sciences with respect to CAGW, I feel an exchange of anecdotal evidence of the kind started by Robin Guenier might be interesting.

This jurisprudence, not coincidentally, is also largely characterized by judicial unwillingness to engage with relevant facts and social science evidence.

In this context, the use of social science evidence was largely directed towards bolstering the assessment of the complainant's testimony, largely by dismissing many traditional lines of attack used to discredit witnesses in these cases.

Law, like all other social sciences and the humanities is driven to change by changing technology — particularly procedural law, of which the law of evidence is a major subdivision.

Each of the five ABS areas will deliver science - and evidence - based preventative programmes that comprise ante and postnatal support programmes targeting one or more of the following: (1) social and emotional development — by addressing perinatal mental health problems, substance dependency and domestic violence as well as encouraging parenting practices that promote attachment; (2) language development by encouraging parents to talk, read and sing to, and particularly to praise — their babies and toddlers, and by ensuring local childcare services emphasise language development; and (3) nutrition and obesity by encouraging breast feeding and promoting good nutritional practices.