Sentences with phrase «find weak relationships»

Where we did find weak relationships in the data, such as between the current year's temperature and the proportion of males born from 1961 to 2009, the association was negative.

He pointed to a paper from the Brookings Institution's William Gale, which found a weak relationship between tax changes and growth.

«Historically, studies had found a weak relationship between money and overall well - being,» says Joe Gladstone.

Some of these find a weak relationship, some find no relationship, and collectively the research does not conclude that there is a strong positive relationship between warming and armed conflict (Theisen et al., 2013).

Not exact matches

«The relationship between the adult and food is far weaker than the relationship between immatures and food, so when you find adults on the non-natives, it doesn't mean that much.

A few years ago there was some concern over the relationship between soy intake and breast cancer due to the isoflavones found in soy (which are weak estrogen - like compounds found in plants).

In addition, we found modest evidence to support a causal relationship for intake of fish, marine ω - 3 fatty acids, folate, whole grains, dietary vitamins E and C and beta carotene, alcohol, fruits, and fiber, and weak evidence of causation for intake of supplementary vitamin E and ascorbic acid, saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids and total fat, α - linolenic acid, meat, eggs, and milk.

The setting is asked to be the visual representation of the decay of father - son relationships stretching into eternity; the question of whether Cain's transgression is an indelible mark on the soul, passed from generation to generation, finds a weak foundation here in what is essentially a broad and laggard melodrama packed with unconvincing highs and unmoving lows.

We find that, while statistically significant, the strength of the relationship between living with a single - parent family and educational attainment is comparable to the relationships for family size and the age of the mother at the time of the child's birth and weaker than the relationship for maternal schooling.

In another analysis, we compared relative child - poverty rates to PISA mean math scores in 2009 — and once again found only a weak and statistically insignificant relationship.

[4] There is actually a slight positive (and statistically significant) relationship between choice and diversity, but it is very weak and is not also found in the free - lunch data.

But OECD's latest PISA survey found that Australia is the only country where differences in learning mathematics between advantaged and disadvantaged students are large, while the strength of the relationship between students» achievement in school and their family background is weaker than average.

«The inquiry found the government's strategy for improving PSHE and sex and relationships education in schools to be weak.

He said equity in the Australian school system is above the OECD average, but OECD's latest PISA survey found that Australia is the only country where differences in learning mathematics between advantaged and disadvantaged students are large, while the strength of the relationship between students» achievement in school and their family background is weaker than average.

Taken together, these results show a) quite weak relationships of policy with reported instruction within states (much weaker than has been found elsewhere), and b) differences across states in relationships between the attributes and content.

He specifically notes that previous research has found «scarce and weak» evidence of a relationship between tests of pedagogical knowledge and student achievement.

«The inquiry found the Government's strategy for improving PSHE and sex and relationships education in schools to be weak.

Two academic researchers from the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania looked at these value - added measures in six districts around the nation and found that there was weak to zero relationship between these new numbers and the content or quality of the teacher's instruction.

Across all schools we find that novice teachers are assigned lower achieving students than their more experienced colleagues at their school; however, the magnitude of this relationship is weaker in more effective schools.

As in several of our previous studies, 53 we found significant but much weaker relationships between leadership and teacher capacity.

We find robust relationships among seasonal and regional patterns of weaker poleward thickness gradients, weaker zonal upper - level winds, and a more meridional flow direction.

The beginning of their abstract's second sentence reads: «The relationship between proxies and temperature is weak...» Well there's an interesting finding, but damned if they didn't hide it in a paper in a statistics journal!!

Accordingly, relatively weak associations between relationship satisfaction and divorce were found in a study following married parents over 10 years, from child age 4 to 14 (Hirschberger et al. [2009]-RRB-.

As mentioned before, Suls et al. (1998) found a positive relationship between neuroticism and the general inertia parameter \ (\ phi \) of the AR model, but now we hypothesized an underlying pattern where more neurotic individuals have weaker affect regulation only or especially for increased negative affect.

Consistent with this premise, Buchanan et al. (1996) report benefits of a close father - child relationship for adolescent outcomes in father - resident families but found these effects to be weaker than the benefits of a close mother - child tie in mother - resident families.»

We found only one published study that evaluated the performance of the EQ - 5D in adolescents with depression.34 This study found a statistically significant correlation between EQ - 5D and depression - specific outcome measures, though this relationship was stated to be weak.

The relationship between cortical surface area and cognitive control was found in the right caudal anterior cingulate, and post hoc analyses showed a similar but weaker relationship in the opposite hemisphere.

A weak negative correlation was found between religiosity and relationship satisfaction.