Sentences with phrase «factual questions»

The drill includes the teacher's asking factual questions, looking for a single right answer.

The researchers also asked nine factual questions about genome editing and found sharp differences in support for both treatment and enhancement based on knowledge.

I do find it interesting to explore a basic factual question that is embedded in an intense ideological issue.

When they meet people, they ask factual questions — Where do you work?

Three - judge Federal Circuit panel divides over Seventh Amendment right to jury trial on factual questions of intent to deceive and materiality of deceptively withheld information: You can access today's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit at this link.

In the lecture - oriented biology course, using clickers boosted student scores on factual questions by almost 12 percentage points, so clickers seemed to make a big difference in helping students retain facts.

Political divisions are less apparent with factual questions that do not infer climate change, such as whether the melting of Greenland and Antarctic land ice, or of Arctic sea ice, could potentially do the most to raise sea levels.

In the Q&A period, Crossan is particularly incoherent and evasive, refusing to answer such simple factual questions as, «During the Jurassic period, when there were no humans, did God exist?»»

As can be seen from the company's introduction video below, Mycroft's skills range from answering factual questions and some of the basics, such as the date, time, weather, set alarms, or play the news, to playing music, radio, podcasts, or movies and videos on nearby displays and to control other Wi - Fi connected appliances.

State secrets, the court held, were critical to the resolution of core factual questions in the case, and therefore the doctrine justified dismissal...»

But if we ask the purely factual question — is there a downward trend in Arctic sea ice, the answer in unequivocally yes.

Observers ask the demonstrating teacher factual questions that focus on specific elements of instruction.

Besides tag questions, which are actively destructive, there are also factual questions like «Do you want milk in your coffee?»

[52] However, the interviewer had previously asked a man, Alan Johnson, comparable factual questions.

But some feel that Farage could find himself out of his depth once faced with sustained factual questioning in which he is unable to fall back on his cheerful public persona.

His column, syndicated to over 100 newspapers, provided answers to factual questions submitted by readers.

Responses to climate - linked factual questions, such as whether Arctic sea ice area has declined compared with 30 years ago, were politicized as if we were asking for climate - change opinions.

Murphy is referring to a 1968 article that derived its conclusions from asking students just six miscellaneous factual questions.

In the problem - oriented physics course, however, scores on factual questions stayed flat when clickers were used — and dropped a significant 9 percentage points on conceptual questions.

In ruling that the trial judge's denial of the class was erroneous, the SJC reasoned,» [T] he essential factual questions of liability in this case — Did a contract or agreement exist?

All the actions involve factual questions relating to whether Abilify was defectively designed or manufactured, whether defendants knew or should have known of the alleged propensity of Abilify to cause compulsive gambling behaviors in users, and whether defendants provided adequate instructions and warnings with this product.»

Samsung's reply brief stresses the importance of the issues and particularly emphasizes that all three issues Samsung submits for review involve legal, not merely factual questions.

The tenant also wants to challenge the Lands Tribunal's insistence that leasehold valuation tribunals must follow its findings on the essentially factual question of what is the correct deferment rate.

On most encyclopedia - style factual questions, Alexa defaults to reading the first sentence of Wikipedia, but Amazon's engineers haven't resisted the opportunity to give Alexa a little bit of personality and opinion.

These range from tasks as simple as checking the weather and other factual questions to more complicated functions like turning on your smart lights, placing an order on Amazon, and more.

The National Household Education Survey includes a series of factual questions about American politics.

As on Android phones, Google Assistant can tell you the weather, answer factual questions, look up local landmarks and even control your smart home devices.

As you can see, laptop users did pretty well on factual questions, relatively speaking, but they fell far short on conceptual questions, which involved comparing and analyzing ideas from the TED talk they watched.

If the questioner asks a purely factual question, like «Did you go to the factory on that Tuesday?»

Construct validity does not concern the simple, factual question of whether a test measures an attribute.

«Edwards wasn't convicted, but his jury hung on several counts, and the trial was driven by factual questions: Did Edwards know about the payments, and was their purpose political, or were they simply intended to keep the peace within Edwards's marriage?»

Ask some general or factual questions.

We asked respondents a set of four factual questions about the TPP.

When the head of the Joint Chiefs parries a factual question with «trust me,» I don't.

In one sense this is a factual question, and as such the answer is affirmative.

Whether all past occasions of experience of human souls are directly prehended in each new occasion is indeed a factual question, but insofar as evidence of the influence of the past upon our psychic life is uncovered, it tends to confirm the natural speculations issuing from Whitehead's philosophy.

Whether or not in the unconscious dimensions of our experience they are continuously effective is a factual question best left to the depth psychologists.

Clearly these are for him factual questions to be settled by such evidence as we can acquire.

Whether or not the impact of British colonialism in Nigeria or U.S. political and economic involvement in the Philippines has been positive is, in part, a factual question.

That means that it can not be a factual question whether God exists.

I don't care if Oklahoma State has bragging rights or if fans are (or aren't) arguing about their Massey Composite rating — it really has no bearing whatever on the factual question of which team was better this season.

Instead she will launch into a riff about comparing apples and oranges in order to divert attention from the factual question.

Rather than asking these factual questions, some of Trump's supporters wrote in various blogs that the wall is merely a symbol of America getting a chance again, protecting the nation's borders, signally the end of globalised capitalist practices that were deemed harmful for the US.

«Most chatbots today are only able to give you very short answers, and mainly just for factual questions,» says Makoto Nakatsuji at NTT Resonant.

In this article, I'll explore the types of factual questions and how you can use them to gauge learner progress, improve knowledge retention, and build cognitive thinking skills in your eLearning course.

He or she has only ever been given answers to factual questions, and then tested on how well they have retained the facts.