Sentences with phrase «confounding problem»

Is this your solution to the confounding problem?

Like the arbitrary UHI ajustments, these sources of error are disregarded altogether, subjected to arbitrary adjustments without adequate experimental verifications, and generally denied as a confounding problem in the preparation of the IPCC reports and conclusions.

For example, bristlecone pines are known to be CO2 fertilized, creating a possible confounding problem if they are used in temperature reconstruction

That still doesn't rule out the confounding problem with a single borehole, but sampling widely separated boreholes should significantly reduce the «common mode» errors.

Juhana, Steve, Robert, Blood sugar is also a confounding problem.

For example, bristlecone pines are known to be CO2 fertilized, creating a possible confounding problem if they are used in temperature reconstructionA figure from Mann's own website suggested that the medieval warm period reappeared if bristlecone pines were excluded from the reconstruction.

For a long time, that's been a confounding problem in the search for life beyond Earth: If alien life looks nothing like it does on our planet, if it abjures DNA and RNA for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered it?

They not only rely on analytical processes (those that produce either / or choices) but also exhibit the ability to see all of the salient — and sometimes contradictory — aspects of a confounding problem and create novel solutions that go beyond and dramatically improve on existing alternatives.

«You can only imagine the confounding problems that can occur when you have multiple genomes,» said Saski.

It's not as simple as that and (BTW I'm not convinced that CO2 and N fertilization are necessarily the most critical confounding problems.)

The Design Thinking Process: User - Centered Solutions to Complex and Confounding Problems Coming out of Stanford's Institute of Design, the Design Thinking framework has taken the architecture, and now the business world, by storm.

Not exact matches

Even if it was a good measure of altruism, the other problems with such experiments still apply, and «experimenter demand» effects are common confounding variables.

Surely you are confounding the stumbling - block of the mythological language with the real skandalon of the cross, and the exegetical problem with that of faith.

The only problem, whatever the benefits, this behavior skews and confounds the ability to be logical and even see the simple truth of how things really are.

This is one of those recognize - the - pattern problems that always feels like it should be immediately obvious, but this one is confounding well - educated adults across the internet.

In fact there are often methodological problems with such findings, which may reflect data - sets that include very few children with highly involved fathers, significant variation within the samples of children's exposure to other pathogenic circumstances; and the confounding of many types of «involved» father, from the abusive to the devoted (Lamb, 2002b).

SMMIS allowed us to control for nearly all of the known risk factors for PPH, many of which were also associated with intended place of birth and would therefore almost certainly have caused problems of confounding had they not been included as model covariates.

Confounding is a special problem that happens in some studies that doesn't actually depend on the other types of bias.

From there, the world's problems can be explained by imagining a hidden satanic power, one that works covertly to fool the vulnerable, confound the virtuous and fleece the poor.

Baker is fulfilling a campaign promise to tackle the problem that confounded his predecessor.

Working on math alone and in total obscurity ever since he received his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1991, Zhang had solved a problem in number theory known as the twin primes conjecture, which had confounded leading experts for millennia.

6 Some math problems are designed to be confounding, like British philosopher Bertrand Russell's paradoxical «set of all sets that are not members of themselves.»

Nesbitt and others claim these advances will fix only some of the problems and can not address the confounding human factors that continue to play a role in runway and flight risk.

Pagani's team then analyzed the data to identify any significant link between such problems and early televiewing, discarding many possible confounding factors.

Obviously there are many confounding factors so the problem challenge is to extract the temperature signal and to thus distinguish the temperature signal from the noise caused by the many confounding factors.

Obviously there are many confounding factors so the problem is to extract the temperature signal and to distinguish the temperature signal from the noise caused by the many confounding factors.

There are so many confounding factors that can affect indigestion and heartburn, and those with severe struggles often have the most difficult time finding the right protocol for their specific problems.

Other persistent problems with the validity of studies of caffeine and miscarriage include confounding by smoking and potential recall bias.

There are plenty of confounding issues: (1) We know pork has problems that beef and lamb do not (see The Trouble With Pork, Part 3: Pathogens and earlier posts in that series), but all three meats were lumped together in a «red meat» category.

And Mr. Stahl's story is crowded with memorable minor figures, from the television star (played by Cheryl Ladd) who recognizes Jerry's problem because she has had it herself, to the eagerly inquisitive agent (played by Janeane Garofalo) whom Jerry enjoys confounding.

In January, the #MeToo movement gave way to Time's Up, a coalition of 300 (and growing) prominent women in Hollywood standing up against the systemic problem of not only sexual misconduct, but also to address the imbalance of power in the workforce confounded by issues of gender disparity in jobs and pay leading to ongoing injustice and inequality.

This problem — a systemic imbalance of power in the workforce confounded by issues of gender disparity in jobs and pay leading to ongoing injustice and inequality — is what led 300 prominent women in Hollywood, including Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and America Ferrera, to form a coalition called Time's Up.

«These studies all suffer from serious confounds or design problems that make it impossible to show that AR improves reading,» says Tim Shanahan, professor of urban education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and director of its Center for Literacy.

But because the evidence supporting this claim comes from just a few limited studies, and because other studies contradict some of that evidence, it would be unwise to conclude that confounding is not a problem.

At that time the Japanese car industry could do no wrong, and Honda represented fierce corporate independence, a relentlessly clever approach to engineering, and the ability to solve problems that confounded other car companies.

She also encourages readers to see cats» more confounding behaviors as the problem - solving efforts they are, rather than attribute them to aloofness, spitefulness, etc..

Nonetheless, the indie author who researches the basics of Kindle formatting with Word and invests the time to properly check the formatting across all devices is likely to encounter unforeseen, yet very important, problems: the confounding Look Inside.

Supposedly, it was done only to confound one of the managers with whom this person had a problem with.

McIntyre also addressed this problem: «There is a confounding interaction with TOBS [time of observation] that needs to be allowed for, as has been quickly and correctly pointed out.»

Through InnoCentive's online network of 300,000 engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs --- the world's first open innovation marketplace --- we offered prize money in exchange for successful solutions to problems in the social space that confounded experts working in only one place.

Bjorn Lomborg has an excellent article in Forbes on what is a major confounding factor and most likely the larger of the particulate matter problems, indoor air pollution.

As an academic who tries (not always successfully) to practice sound science himself, it is clear to me that Steele is a «scientist's scientist» — thorough and fair to the bone, not resting until he has looked at a complex problem from every angle; faithfully following the evidence wherever it may lead; presenting each argument in keeping with Einstein's motto «as simple as possible, but not simpler»; giving credit where credit is due, even to those people who on the whole confound rather than clarify the issues; and doing all this with a lifetime of learning and experience under his belt.

Because the group is dominated by trees in the late stages of a long life AND we simultaneously have the same environmental effects on each tree, we run into a statistical problem called confounding.

And what is your problem with Wegman's statement that there are «many confounding factors»?

Obviously there are many confounding factors so the problem is to extract the temperature signal and to distinguish the temperature signal from the noise caused by the many confounding factors.

The problems arise due to confounding effects on the LONG TERM trend (multi-decadal to multi-century) estimates.

The problem which Siddons high - lighted was regolith absorption and storage of heat which when gradually or suddenly released would confound an assumed surface temperature based on an assumed emissivity.

This crusade for honesty and transparency is confounded, however, by two huge problems for the GWPF's critics.

The study is investigating what effect ocean acidification is having on reefs, a tricky problem as other confounding....

The recent history of judicial review in Canada has been marked by ebbs and flows of deference, confounding tests and new words for old problems, but no solutions that provide real guidance for litigants, counsel, administrative decision makers or judicial review judges.