Sentences with phrase «flaw in such a study»

Of course, the obvious flaw in such a study is that both groups of students have highly - motivated parents / families.

Not exact matches

Petaluma, Calif., December 11, 2017 — A new study from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) examines the flaws in single - trait label claims, noting that no single label meets the comprehensive requirements of the organic label, while lack of clarity around labels such as «natural» and «transitional» cause consumers further confusion.

However, such a study should be enacted prior to placing any caps on growth on any segment of the taxi industry,» Mr. Diaz said in a statement «The legislation before the City Council is flawed, and would have the unintended consequence of inhibiting the growth of the livery car services my borough and much of the city relies on for transportation.»

However, when the studies with potential flaws in their methods were removed, the three remaining studies showed that such labels could reduce calories consumed by about 12 % per meal.

As a citizen of the United States and a taxpayer, and as a practicing biomedical applied statistician, I am especially concerned about the possibility that the funding garnered for such potentially flawed studies is detracting from other groups» ability to obtain funding to perform valid research in the valuable arena of personalized medicine.

The small studies that the CDC cited under the «experiment» criteria in support of their contention that reducing sodium intake below current levels can reduce CVD risk are flawed by confounding factors such as excess weight in study subjects, substitution of potassium for sodium, and providing nutritional supplements to experimental subjects but not to controls.

Second, we believe that claims made on the basis of this flawed study feed the false hopes of many Americans, including policymakers, educators, and the general public, that we can find a single, simple solution, such as directly teaching phonics, to the real and complex problem of improving the reading of young children in high poverty schools.

Many of those evaluations — in New York City, Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., as well as in the states of Florida, Minnesota, and Louisiana — reported a modest increase or neutral impact on student achievement and graduation rates.9 The findings of some of these studies, however, have more recently been called into question as methodological flaws were discovered when adding additional years or replicating the study.10 As a result, recent voucher program evaluations employ more rigorous research methods such as experimental and quasi-experimental designs and refine their use of certain variables.

In March 2010, NHTSA enlisted top NASA engineers and experts in areas such as electromagnetic compatibility to study whether electronic flaws can cause unintended acceleratioIn March 2010, NHTSA enlisted top NASA engineers and experts in areas such as electromagnetic compatibility to study whether electronic flaws can cause unintended acceleratioin areas such as electromagnetic compatibility to study whether electronic flaws can cause unintended acceleration.

A detailed discussion of the flaws in all 9 sets of studies would probably be too much for this essay, but we provide such a discussion in Paper 1.

None of the other following studies have had similar audit, and until such time as they do, in the light of the many flaws uncovered by Steve McIntyre, and the Wegman Report, they can no longer be relied upon.»