Sentences with phrase «evidence against the hypothesis»

On face value, W. E. Hocking's remark that when Whitehead arrived at Harvard «his speculative structure... was already well advanced in its main outlines» is a bit of external evidence against my hypothesis, but it may mean nothing more than that Whitehead was little influenced by the philosophical opinions and controversies of his American colleagues during these years, which seems very much to have been the case.

However, different telescopes have observed a bright light source at the location of the stars» collision, which provides clear evidence against the hypothesis of collapse.

The IPCC actually cites measurements of stratospheric cooling as evidence against the hypothesis that global warming would be caused by increased solar activity, as in such case the entire atmosphere would have to show a warming trend, including the stratosphere.

The satellite data does raise some issues — for example it shows that the link between tropospheric and surface level temperatures is not as tight as was once thought, but the idea that it represents serious evidence against the hypothesis of human - induced global warming has been thoroughly refuted.

For example, evidence against a hypothesis is normally a major form of uncertainty but in this case it goes in the red area, not the white.

Not exact matches

Scientists, for their part, especially those in the scientific community with burdens against religion, need to understand that the nature of scientific evidence, method and hypotheses and the nature of theological evidence, method, and hypothesis have more in common than they might imagine.

Circumstantial evidence against the accused man must not only lead consistently, step by step, to a conclusion of his guilt; it must also «exclude to a moral certainty every other reasonable hypothesis.»

He has directly entered scientific fields with hypotheses suggested by his metaphysics, proposed testable hypotheses, and himself tested them against the empirical evidence.

I'm not ready to accept any of the evidence for or against that hypothesis.

Meanwhile, in the face of powerful evidence against two of its strongest initial hypotheses — concerning MMR and thimerosal — the vaccine skeptic movement is morphing before our eyes.

But we must always build our hypotheses on, and test them against, the hard evidence: the fossils, comparative anatomy and physiology, and genetics.

He sensibly concluded his paper saying that this was all only speculation — a «hypothesis to be discussed and tested against further lines of evidence».

Despite the reasonableness of thinking that it would reduce the risk of a range of age - related diseases, so far «the vast majority of the epidemiological data does not support the hypothesis that body iron stores are directly related to the risk of developing CHD,» (2) and there's no evidence that it's protective against any other age - related disorder.»

«This new calcium study provides limited evidence to support its hypothesis, and therefore we caution against jumping to conclusions.

The Harvard Nurses» Questionnaire Study Evidence piles up against the use of HRT to prevent heart disease The coronary artery spasm hypothesis Use real progesterone Men, hormones and heart disease

The project regularly gives evidence to the hypothesis that peace education should start as early as possible, before prejudice, ignorance and agression against other cultures, religions and nations develop.

On isolating teacher effects: «Inferring teacher competence from test scores requires the isolation of teaching effects from other major influences on student test performance,» while «the task is to support an interpretation of student test performance as reflecting teacher competence by providing evidence against plausible rival hypotheses or interpretation.»

Once you start to entertain the hypothesis seriously, you see that evidence against it is slim to none.

In fact, I have found little or no evidence against the GW hypothesis on the IPCC website.

I view CO2 as one of the essential ingredients of life, in no way a pollutant; I find the thermostat hypothesis compelling, such that claims against it must be considered extraordinary — requiring extraordinary evidences; and I knew nothing of Lew's survey and didn't participate.

And, while you may believe that a high sensitivity has been validated by model simulations, there are many parts of the past record, which speak strongly against this premise — and you have so far been unable to cite the specific empirical evidence to support this hypothesis.

Denying climate change isn't scepticism — it's «motivated reasoning» True sceptics test a hypothesis against the evidence, but climate sceptics refuse to accept anything that contradicts their beliefs

in which evidence for a hypothesis is represented as green, evidence against is represented as red, and the white area reflecting uncommitted belief that can be associated with uncertainty in evidence or unknowns.

Lets frame belief, disbelief, and doubt in the context of the Italian flag, that was introduced previously on the hurricane thread in which evidence for a hypothesis is represented as green, evidence against is represented as red, and the white area reflecting uncommitted belief that can be associated with uncertainty in evidence or unknowns.

The early Anthropocene hypothesis goes against strong evidence, provided by Crutzen, Will Steffen and other researchers, that only with the beginning of the industrial revolution can we detect a human influence on the functioning of the Earth system as a whole.

I was going by Judith's original statement (where the Italian flag appears) «evidence for a hypothesis is represented as green, evidence against is represented as red»

This hypothesis provoked a major debate, with some 50 papers published for or against it in the last decade, but with a favorable shift in the last few years based on emerging archeological evidence.

Re: «Ignoring evidence for hypotheses is the sin against science of Atomski and cognitively disonnent fellows»

However, IPCC does dedicate a chapter to its evidence against the null hypothesis.

Science lives for the «falsifiable hypothesis» — a claim that can be tested against the evidence — and that is what the paper by Hansen and his colleagues offered up.

For example, if there is an alternative hypothesis B, that is not evidence against A directly, rather it is evidence that A is uncertain.

Based solely on your quoted material, tn Tesla the uncertainty seems to be exclusively in regard to the evidence for or against the hypothesis being evaluated.

I am also not paralysed by solar hypotheses / theories — I will accept proper evidence against it.

In this situation rejecting a «unit root null hypothesis» or not rejecting a «no unit root null hypothesis» can be taken as evidence against the theory.

Before looking at any historical evidence, let us review, in an abbreviated way, what arguments could be made for and against the hypothesis of BTC being a safe haven asset.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

But in most realms of scientific inquiry, theories are tested against the null hypothesis and accepted only when there is sufficient unambiguous evidence to reject it.

Further, the nature of the mediation relationship provides evidence that positive perceptions of peer relationships can act as a protective buffer for young women against the effects of cyber bullying similar to the friendship protection hypothesis advanced for face - to - face bullying (Kendrick et al. 2012).

That is, against the hypotheses, there was no evidence of any direct / indirect specificity in these results.

Kavanagh39 reported the median proportion of high EE families in their meta - analysis as 54 % with a range from 23 % to 77 %, whereas figures are typically lower than 40 % in staff - patient studies.12, 23,24,27,28,40 — 42 It may be the case that psychiatric staff have both more experience and training in managing patients» problems than relatives which may be protective factors against the development of high EE.43 In support of this hypothesis, an early study which involved interviewing nurses about how they cope with patients» symptoms of schizophrenia found that more experienced senior staff used a greater number and range of coping strategies than less experienced staff.43 High EE ratings in staff - patient studies are also almost exclusively based on the presence of critical comments with infrequent hostility and very little evidence of EOI.