Sentences with phrase «conclusions about the causes»

The company recently saw derailments in Minnesota and northern Ontario, both of which resulted in oil spills, but it's too early to draw conclusions about the causes of either accident.

Nearly three weeks after a fatal Metro - North Railroad crash, the NTSB released a summary of its preliminary findings, but official conclusions about the cause of the crash are months away.

The recommendation about the Medical Examiner's Office came after the Attorney General's Office said the medical examiner insisted «on speaking with the officers before making a scientific conclusion about cause and manner of death.»

As the study is observational and relies on self - reported data from parents, no conclusions about cause and effect are possible.

This is an observational study, so no firm conclusions about cause and effect can be drawn.

The cross-sectional observational design of this study does not allow for conclusions about cause and effect.

This is one of the first long term follow - up studies of aircraft noise so it's not possible to draw conclusions about cause and effect at this stage until more evidence / studies become available, say the researchers.

The authors caution that the cross-sectional, observational nature of the study does not allow for conclusions about cause and effect.

«You're not even trying to draw conclusions about causes — only attempting to find associations or correlations.»

I had just been in a discussion of climate change on a messageboard where someone had triumphantly put up links to various blogs (including one that you noted here) drawing conclusions about the cause of the global warming here on earth on the basis of these recent measurements of Mars's south polar cap!

Both studies were observational — meaning they tracked a certain group of people over time and relied on self - reported information — so the researchers were unable to form any conclusions about cause - and - effect.

The superiority of random assignment for drawing conclusions about cause and effect in nonlaboratory settings is routinely recognized in both the philosophy of science literature and in methods texts in health, public health, agriculture, statistics, microeconomics, psychology, and those parts of political science and sociology that deal with improving the assessment of public opinion.

While Melissa Jamula argues that «People who say money doesn't make a difference have never spent a day in the Reading School District,» those who do spend some time reviewing the district's finances would agree with Jamula - but perhaps come to a very different conclusion about the cause of the problem.

There didn't seem to be a pattern to the signal deficiencies, though, and because of that I can't come to any solid conclusion about the cause.

Scientifically, this argument holds no water: it is simply not possible to draw conclusions about the causes of climate variations by just looking at one time series.

Data over 140 years is insufficient to make over broad claims about natural variability and it would require a leap of imagination to use this data in and of itself to draw conclusions about cause and effect.

Yet many human problems thwart expectations required by epistemic norms of the sciences that determine when to publish conclusions about cause and effect.

Martin Hoerling, a research meteorologist with NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory, thinks it's still too early to draw firm conclusions about the cause of the Texas heat wave.

After investigating the scene, law enforcement may come to a conclusion about the cause of the accident and this can be included in the report.

Accident reconstruction may be essential to your case and it is a scientific process of investigating, analyzing, and drawing conclusions about the cause of the accident.

Of course, the nature of this study does not allow us to draw definitive conclusions about cause - and - effect.

Not exact matches

«Railway data alone, and without proper context, can lead to false conclusions about the root cause of an issue,» CP spokesperson Jeremy Berry said in an email.

Again, physical causes bring about effects that are distinct from the cause itself, whereas when a conclusion is derived from a principle it is nothing more than a deeper insight into the principle.

Finally, Mr. DeVet thinks our article had too optimistic a conclusion, arguing that stem cells «will cause people to be more prudent in the future about mixing science with politics in general.»

The most remarkable aspect about this reaction is that the Moynihan report itself took great pains to identify white bigotry as the fundamental cause of the breakdown of the black family: «There is a considerable body of evidence,» says the report, «to support the conclusion that Negro social structure, in particular the Negro family, battered and harassed by discrimination, injustice, and uprooting, is in the deepest trouble.»

The cause of this uneasiness becomes clearer if we question Ignatieff's argument at several points: the validity of the moral paradigm itself, the assumptions from which he proceeds, the inconsistencies in how he describes the limits to be observed in doing the «lesser evil,» and his conclusions about specific elements of the war on terror.

In reading about your experience and Darrin's experience, it seems your faith influenced you to come to a conclusion that caused you problems.

Consequently his epistemology avoids the pitfalls of nineteenth century Traditionalism which, carried to its logical conclusion, by undermining the possibility of any rational discourse about reality - and God as its ultimate cause - leads either to radical scepticism or fideism.

Gove's answer was to say that people might draw their own conclusions about the SNP causing so much trouble for so little.

If you can then show that humans don't cause climate change, then only # 2 (and possibly # 4, which has the same conclusion) is left, and it means that we have no obligation to try and do anything about it.

«And it is the premature conclusion of an open and transparent environmental process that causes many to have concern today about their motivation.»

However, the study used self - reported alcohol consumption and relied on observational data, so no firm conclusions can me made about cause and effect.

This is an observational study so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, added to which the questionnaire captured dietary habits for one week only and it didn't include alcohol or coffee, which may have boosted calorie intake among the 18 - 19 year olds.

This is an observational study, so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, and the researchers point to some limitations.

Both studies are observational, so their interpretation needs to consider the potential impact of other factors before any firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, they add.

This is an observational study, so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, and PPIs are generally considered safe, say the researchers.

This was an experimental study in mice, which allows for conclusions to be made about cause and effect in this species.

The assessment is the latest in a series of conflicting conclusions about the cancer - causing potential of glyphosate.

This is an observational study, so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, added to which confining the assessments to a period of four years might have underestimated the true impact of persistent distress, caution the researchers.

This is an observational study so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, particularly as the data on smoking and drinking relied on personal recall, which is subject to bias.

This is an observational study, so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, added to which the information on misuse is drawn from administrative data and the findings were limited to insured adults in the US.

But they point out that as this was an observational study no definitive conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, especially as the findings might have been the result of reverse causation — whereby those with tendon injuries did less exercise, so raising their cholesterol levels.

While this is an observational study and no definitive conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, they say that interventions to reduce bullying in schools could reduce depression in later life.

The authors point out that this is an observational study, so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, and add their results might not apply to the general population because the study only looked at older patients.

This is an observational study, so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect.

This is an observational study so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, and no data on other potentially influential factors, such as lifestyle and family history, were available, say the researchers.

However, I would be very cautious about reaching a conclusion that antidepressants treatment in pregnancy itself is causing autism.

The technical limitations of detecting somatic changes and the lack of insight about the minimum level of erroneous proteins to cause an error catastrophe hampered any firm conclusions on these theories.

This is an observational study, so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, and the findings may have been subject to recall inaccuracies, the researchers point out.

Ryan and Roverts believe that some or many of the other American scientists must have: (1) foresaken their search for the truth, (2) knowingly espoused false conclusions, or (3) remained silent about the scientific and engineering evidence supporting demolition as the true cause for the collapse of the 3 buildings on 9/11.