Sentences with word «correlational»

Findings from a large number of correlational studies on language have shown that frequency of exposure strongly predicts word learning and seems to have long - range consequences for later language and reading levels.35 Although this finding is often mentioned in the literature, what is new is that we may have underestimated the frequency required to learn words.

This follow - up experiment overcomes the limitations of correlational data by demonstrating that spending money on things that match a person's personality can cause an increase in happiness.

These studies are important because of their evident clinical relevance, but also because studies that involve interventions provide greater information on causal processes between sensitivity and development, than do correlational designs.

«This study provides correlational evidence for active anti-interferon antibodies providing protection from type 1 diabetes, but more research is needed to prove causation in humans.

However, caution must be exercised when interpreting these findings, with the majority of outcomes relying on correlational analyses in a small sample consisting of both dual and single parent families.

Reference [36] defines longitudinal design as a time series correlational research design.

Of course, these results are limited in that we are dealing with correlational data here.

However, some proponents of the behavioural genetic approach have declared most correlational findings on child development to be seriously flawed because they are based on traditional research designs focusing on between - family comparisons, which confound genetic similarities between parents and children with supposedly shared environmental influences.7 Harris, 8 for example, claims that there is an urgent need to radically rethink and de-emphasize the role of parents in child development.

This year we are pleased to present the Nan Tobler Award for Review of the Prevention Science Literature to Dr. James Derzon, Senior Evaluation Specialist, Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation, for the paper entitled, «Using Correlational Evidence to Select Youth for Prevention Programming, published in the Journal of Primary Prevention in 2007.

Results suggest that there may be some type of correlational relationship between egalitarianism and religious views affecting relationship satisfaction.

Most nutrition research is based on correlational methods.

Beginning with the leadership of Russ Whitehurst at the Institute of Education Sciences, IES has begun shifting its grants and contracts away from correlational studies like Coleman's and toward those that evaluate interventions with random - assignment and other quasi-experimental designs.

Citing David Tracy's Blessed Rage for Order, Browning characterizes the middle way as a «critical correlational approach» to theology.

These results are only correlational in nature, leaving open a range of possible causal explanations.

The causal - correlational effect of aggression in wave 1 on time spent on games in wave 2 (β =.06, B =.75, SE =.462, p =.10) was also not significant.

But the overwhelming weight of such correlational studies builds a compelling case in favor of early reading instruction.

We must subject the sciences themselves to the dialogue that takes place within critical correlational theology.

Over the past decade, we have started to see studies that are suggesting either experimentally or through correlational data that students often do better in harder text.

His case for a critical correlational theology would have been the stronger had he limited himself to its connections with strategic practical theology.

Uncovered correlational links between drops in critical early childhood services and drop in school readiness.

Although purely correlational at this stage, these results suggest that these animals use a suite of planetary indicators to guide them over extremely long distances on consistent routes and with consistent timing.

Correlational trends show detrimental effects of formula on all sorts of health outcomes that have been measured.

The researchers note that the study findings are correlational so that they can not prove causal effects.

In other words, optogenetics allowed the possibility to move the entire neuroscience research field forward from the observational and correlational stage to the causality era.

[10] There is debate [11] over whether value - added models accurately capture the true contributions (in statistical parlance, «causal estimates») of schools and teachers as opposed to simply identifying correlational relationships.

Differential susceptibility experiments: Going beyond correlational evidence.

Since the scale measures two exact opposite dimensions, namely positive emotions and negative emotions, we did two separate correlational analyses, one for the positive emotions items and one for the negative emotions items.

Although correlational in nature, this study has some clinical relevance.

Further, the evidence on alternative strategies is mainly correlational, suggesting that more research is necessary to uncover how alternative approaches to suspensions affect school safety and student outcomes.

Although the new database is massive and rich, it will be important for readers to be aware that it supports correlational and descriptive rather than causal analyses.

Uniting so many of these new voices, it, seems, is not a theory of hermeneutics, much less a revised correlational method for theology, but a new hermeneutical practice that actualizes that theory and that method better than many of the theorists do.

Because we can't ethically randomly allocate some women to breastfeed and some to formula feed, we can only run correlational studies.

Young adults with thinner cortex in particular brain regions are more impulsive during a decision - making task than teens with thicker cortex, according to a large correlational study of adolescents from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort.

«We've seen correlational evidence, where we see brain activity together with a behavior, and we connect the dots to say it must be this brain activity causing this behavior,» said Suto.

Despite flawed correlational research, (43,44) there is no evidence that meat, red or not, causes cancer or heart disease or death.

When it comes to fish oils I certainly feel that the benefits completely outweigh the results of this one statistical correlational study.

Again, these studies are just correlational studies, and thus make it hard for complete interpretation.

A few correlational studies have shown individuals consuming 8 cups of water per day are less likely to suffer from

I'll take my chances — cancer studies are nearly always correlational, and confounding variables can't be eliminated / held constant.