Sentences with phrase «few anecdotal»

Leavy - Detrick noted that you should prepare a few anecdotal stories that speak to your strengths, such as how you turned around a difficult situation, achieved a success or stepped up in any way.

Regardless, their reputation is terrible enough that it'll take more than just a few anecdotal reports to turn things around.

MS. WU: We don't have a lot of data and, in fact, we have even very few anecdotal reports.

There may be a few anecdotal reports here and there, but nothing conclusive.

He then cited a few anecdotal examples, but no experimental results.

Although there are a few anecdotal examples of companies raising wages — Walmart and TJX being two of the more recent — wages are not responding as expected to the acceleration in job growth (although there are indications that overall compensation, including benefits, is rising much faster).

Here's a few anecdotal experiences I've had in the past few weeks that make me almost positive Bitcoin's days are numbered.

People might know a few anecdotal examples of this, like the fact that Fred Smith was a Marine officer who observed the military logistics system before he founded FedEx.

But for fun I'll put a few anecdotal sign posts that suggest we are in a bubble.

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If anecdotal evidence (and personal experience) is anything to go on, the answer is quite a few.

For most of the companies I've worked at, the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) is has been anecdotal at best... meaning that if you ask sales leader who we sell to, they'll offer a few key titles, maybe a couple of industries.

However, anecdotal evidence continues to indicate that there are fewer ulcers in populations that consume high amounts of chiles.

Of my anecdotal Knicks game watching, seems like he would get at least 1 inbounds steal per game, and disrupt a few more.

Not surprisingly, the media feeding frenzy has resulted, anecdotal evidence suggests, in a sharp drop in youth football registrations for this fall's season, with parents fearful that playing football will almost inevitably expose their kid to an unreasonable risk of injury (which, of course, is patently untrue; more than 7 million kids in the U.S. currently play football, very few of whom, statistically speaking and despite a few well - publicized cases - are likely to end up committing suicide because of the hits they sustained playing the sport, and millions upon countless millions who have played football over the past century without apparent ill effect).

A few years ago, the sudden rise in anecdotal reports of these drugs» dangerous effects prompted Taffe and his TSRI colleague, chemist Associate Professor Tobin J. Dickerson, to set up studies with laboratory animals.

Despite strong anecdotal and case evidence, only a few physicians scattered around the country actually perform fecal therapy.

They also recovered DNA from three types of ground - dwelling birds and one species of bat - there are only a few previous and somewhat anecdotal reports of those animals being targeted by Haemadipsa leeches.

It's anecdotal, but our One Hot yogis often tell us they suffer fewer colds, have more energy and feel more emotionally robust than they did before starting out.

Usually the truth is that their beliefs are founded on a combination of personal experience, anecdotal evidence, and maybe a few studies which are invariably less - than - perfect.

Almost all, from Wikipedia re Liver (food): «There have been several anecdotal reports and a few scientific studies of vitamin A poisoning due to the consumption of the livers of polar bears, seals and huskies.

Very few articles have been written on the syndrome and most of them are anecdotal.

Instead, we'll tell you what our surveys, feedback, and anecdotal evidence has been revealing over the past few years.

The only data they have are anecdotal stories, like the ones presented below, or the few small - scale reports, like Matthew Chingos and Guido Schwerdt's study of Florida Virtual School (FLVS), which found no evidence that quality is poorer in the online environment.

Few parents, however, need incontrovertible research or gender - issue experts to tell them what they know through years of anecdotal evidence: Boys and girls are inherently different.

National data does not exist on exactly what is happening in classrooms around the country, but anecdotal evidence and a few time - diary studies of kindergarten classrooms indicate that the KIPP DREAM classroom may be the exception, not the rule.

It's been in effect for 23 years, yet the LAO uses one year's anecdotal data from a few districts to declare that the statute's working.

Really difficult to compare Mr Gibb's statement on teacher supply and our anecdotal experience of there being few available when we advertise posts.

In the 12 years since a state law forcing districts to share facilities with charter schools took effect there are still turf wars but anecdotal evidence suggests the disputes are fewer and more often than not, beneficial relationships have instead replaced acrimony.

There is anecdotal evidence of «pent up» Focus Electric demand (yeah ok a few people on forums indicating that they are waiting for their 2015 Focus Electric to be built).

My own anecdotal experience has been that, despite the high cost, few people seem to ever lose money promoting with Bookbub.

Anecdotal reports of backtesting by a few forex traders with the use of these two breakout strategies have shown potential returns of roughly sixty in roughly eight months, which is a compound annual growth rate of more than 100 percent whereas max drawdown was not up to thirteen percent.

It would end the problems with false pregnancies except that if a dog is spayed during a false pregnancy there are anecdotal reports of a short term increase in false pregnancy signs (even stronger nesting / maternal aggression type behaviors) that may last a few days to a week or so.

«There is a wealth of positive anecdotal information but comparatively few data - driven scientific measures of how dogs affect their human companions» sense of well - being.

Research on Adequan has not provided concrete evidence that it provides a beneficial effect, but anecdotal information suggests improvement can be seen after a few injections.16

More anecdotal PS4 sales evidence: This past week I checked a few stores in the area looking for Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes.

This absence of personal and anecdotal information might explain why The New Yorker's extensive profiles of artists are so popular — they provide one of the few places where we get to read about what an artist's parents did, for example, or what their partners do.

Yet, anecdotal information aside, there are very, very few studies of the internal operation of such panels (LaMont 2010), and for evaluating the effectiveness of IPCC's approach, the community has only the very limited literature matching its projections over the past 20 years to actual climate outcomes (Rahmstorf et al. 2007; Pielke 2008).

And there is plenty of ongoing anecdotal evidence of global cooling in the past few years.

Re # 22, purely anecdotal, but I agree with Johnson on the max UHI effect being observable a few hours after sunset.

I have come to realise over the last few years that Mosh's historic temperatrure data expressed as numbers is every bit as anecdotal as my historic weather data expressed in words.

There are so few data observation points anyway, that water level data is surely as anecdotal as when I make references to actual historical events demonstrating sea levels over extended periods in mans recent history?

So far we've heard some good anecdotal evidence from a few sources, but not enough to be sure if it really performs better than expected.

When I wrote my post a few weeks ago on Poverty and Vegetarianism I wanted to include something about the cost of groceries and the relation to where you live, but I only had anecdotal evidence.

I can offer only anecdotal evidence in response to your suggestion that the idea that many district court judges feel that the Guidelines are too harsh is «silly,» but the district court judge for whom I clerk definitely feels that way and has imposed many below - Guidelines sentences since Booker (relatively few of which have been appealed by the government).

This anecdotal evidence makes me wonder about a few things: — Why has word about parttime law programs not made its way to the law librarian community?

Anecdotal evidence suggests there have been fewer mega merger match - ups than in years past — but plenty of talk.

This is becoming clearer to potential law firm partners every day, and there's plenty of anecdotal evidence that fewer associates are interested in becoming partners at law firms than in the past.

As to Malcolm's point I believe that firms are hiring fewer students albeit my information is anecdotal.

Setting the OnePlus 3 next to a couple of other modern phones and opening up apps, multitasking and doing a few basic things, my anecdotal experiences were confirmed — this phone is just as fast, or faster, than anything else on my desk right now.

Although anecdotal evidence suggests that volunteer advocates improve the lives of the children they represent, there are few rigorously designed evaluation studies demonstrating the true impacts of a volunteer advocate on child outcomes.