Sentences with phrase «for valid conclusions»

The method used by Beekman et al is sound enough for valid conclusions to be drawn from the results, although the extent to which medical interviewers were blinded to screening data is not clear.

But the Nationwide data was not presented in a way that would allow for valid conclusions about that.

Not exact matches

The institutions will provide a first view whether this is sufficiently comprehensive to be a valid starting point for a successful conclusion of the review.

Although many of McCabe's arguments and conclusions appear idiosyncratic today, for he was committed to a literalistic, moralistic, and perfectionistic evangelical theology, 2 his analysis of foreknowledge and contingency still raises valid issues.

Again, you may disagree with any of the premises, you may disagree that you are dumb, that you don't know what you are talking about, that God exists and loves everyone, and fine, even if the logic is perfect, the conclusion isn't valid for you, since you don't agree with the premises.

I agree with the premises and think they are true, so the conclusion is valid for me.

Then again, his epistemology is probably too flawed for him to arrive at a valid conclusion on any thing, much less astrophysics.

I assume that you have placed as much study and thought on this issue as I have, and that you have valid reasons for the conclusions you have reached, as do I.

Plain men and philosophers have sought for a valid concept of the good, have been perplexed by the search, and have arrived at many different conclusions.

Moreover, he would be quick to acknowledge that the most frequent and fertile source of error in a metaphysics that follows his method would be the inevitable human limitations upon the metaphysician's powers to abstract from his experiences with sufficient generality for his conclusions to be universally valid.

Being a subjective statistic it is hard to get many valid conclusions from the data provided as the definition of a clear cut chance is up for interpretation.

Ever the scientist begging for data on this point, I'd say that another equally valid conclusion from the article linked here is that perhaps the improvement in kids» behavior from improved food and drink is like the link between crime and graffiti.

In this study, suicidal ideation was used as the indicator of suicide risk because too few patients reported a history of suicide plan or had made a suicide attempt for statistically valid conclusions to be made.

Sensitive and valid screening methods should also be developed to identify the patients who may be at risk for verbal mistreatment and identify patients that are currently experiencing some form of verbal mistreatment,» as explained in the conclusion.

Conclusions: The LASSI - L is a reliable and valid test for the diagnosis of aMCI and mild AD.

Given the relatively very high doses used in the study on the whole and the fact that only mild toxicity was reported, I would say that this conclusion appears to be valid but I would like to see more studies using high such high doses for comparison in order to truly validate these findings.

For an argument to be valid, its premises — the things that the argument is assuming to be true — must be put into a relationship by the person making the argument that entails the argument's conclusion.

To affirm NASSP's support for a global community of educators, offer recommendations for improving the relevance and significance of international comparisons, and promote appropriate comparative analysis of the data from international assessments to aid in reaching valid conclusions regarding the performance of public schools in the United States of America.

Once I came to the conclusion that there was no valid reason for most yearly pet vaccines — and there was a possibility that vaccines could trigger the development of serious diseases — I felt I could no longer work at a conventional veterinary clinic.

It is also the conclusion of the Foundation Board and its Council of Scientific Advisors, based on its review of all relevant materials and discussion, that the current English Springer Spaniel Cord1 PRA test is a valid and important tool for breeders.

But the point here is not to replicate this for the sake of it, but to discover whether the conclusions drawn from their analysis were valid by testing their procedure in test situations where one knows the answer already.

Underlying the scientific method is the assumption that there is an objective reality that will point to the same conclusion for any valid method of inquiry.

If The New York Times thinks that it has valid research that actually supports, credibly, the conclusion that more (valid, informed, accurate, well - communicated, etc.) information actually doesn't and wouldn't budge the public's understanding of global warming, or the public's concern for global warming, I'd ask that such research be posted or linked, so we can all review it.

The gazelle's internal body structure and central nervous system do not need to be studied, known or modeled for the conclusion in (4) that «gazelles leap when a predator is near» to be valid.

They may search for any evidence that their preferred conclusion is valid and stop once confirmation is found.

But you also said, «But let me try and make it even clearer: consensus by a vote of qualified scientists is not a valid basis for arriving at a logical, scientific conclusions about AGW — that's true» You have clearly contradicted yourself.

A fitting sports analogy might be — e.g., who cares if athletes use drugs — we can simply adjust for the effect of the drugs after the event has taken place and draw a valid conclusion based on the adjusted times about the identity of the real winners, right?

If valid, it indicates that the mean surface temperature trend hiatus in no way refutes the core conclusions of IPCC, and will not have the power to do so even if it continues for some decades to come.

Fortunately McIntyre has acknowledged that TOB must be considered in their analysis, as has Watts, which is a good start, but they must also account for the other biases noted above in order to draw any valid conclusions about urban heat influences.

My risk management expertise suggests that for AGW to be valid requires a multiplication of the three risks to result in a high value, eg IPCC puts the first at 100 percent and the second two combined at greater than 90 percent, giving a «very likely» conclusion.

Maybe there is a valid reason for you to advocate because of your concern about a lack of balance, but: (1), I question the criteria you are using to measure that imbalance, and (2) as you become an advocate, you drift away from the science, and you drift away from the first order priority of presenting as much information as is reasonable, objectively, before laying out the argument for your conclusions.

Since Jelbring explicitly states that he is waiting a very long time for relaxation to occur and did not inconsistently qualify his use of an ideal gas by asserting that it is non-conductive (and because there is no substantive difference between my vertically confined gas column and his vertically confined gas column, at this point we all agree that my arguments against EEJ are valid and the stated conclusion of his thought experiment is incorrect.

For ALL of these reconstructions [or all # of these studies with adequately archived data and methods], replacing one or two tree - ring proxies with [equally or] more valid proxies invalidates their conclusions that current temperatures are very likely (p > 0.95) unprecedented in the past millennium.»

This involves accepting questionable conclusions as valid for other domains too, if these reinforce his climate change position.

For example, it's not statistically valid for me to claim that there's significant warming in the 1998 - 2009 monthly data I show above because the R2 (representing how noisy the data is compared to the linear trend in time) is too low to draw any valid conclusions beyond «it's effectively flat.&raqFor example, it's not statistically valid for me to claim that there's significant warming in the 1998 - 2009 monthly data I show above because the R2 (representing how noisy the data is compared to the linear trend in time) is too low to draw any valid conclusions beyond «it's effectively flat.&raqfor me to claim that there's significant warming in the 1998 - 2009 monthly data I show above because the R2 (representing how noisy the data is compared to the linear trend in time) is too low to draw any valid conclusions beyond «it's effectively flat.»

Taxpayers are also stakeholders with a valid interest in the conclusions drawn from billions of dollars invested in climate science, and many of these taxpayers are among those who need the information the most in order to better plan and prepare for climate change impacts.

Unless you had a remarkably gradual shift in time of observation for LIG max / min starting in 1960 I don't believe that is a valid conclusion.

The Wegman committee concluded that the M+M critique was valid for statistical reasons having nothing to do with climate science per se and that the «hockey stick» conclusions were not valid.

Taken together, these two papers (and several similar ones, at least) should convince anyone that «A fundamental and societally relevant conclusion from these studies is that the use of the IPCC model predictions as a basis for policy making is» a valid and reasonable approach.

In terms of greenhouse agents, the main conclusions from the WGI FAR Policymakers Summary are still valid today: (1) «emissions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases: CO2, CH4, CFCs, N2O»; (2) «some gases are potentially more effective (at greenhouse warming)»; (3) feedbacks between the carbon cycle, ecosystems and atmospheric greenhouse gases in a warmer world will affect CO2 abundances; and (4) GWPs provide a metric for comparing the climatic impact of different greenhouse gases, one that integrates both the radiative influence and biogeochemical cycles.

In conclusion, it seems that valid arguments can be made for both the local and global approach.

For the Slaw scholars, check out John Edwards» The Attorney General, Politics, and the Public Interest, whose major conclusions still seem to me valid.

The Court of Appeal also noted the lack of analysis as to how the motion judge reached the conclusion that even if the problems in the house had been completely remediated, the responded would still «have a valid claim for the stigma that had attached to the subject property.»

It acknowledged there were valid arguments on both sides of the issue but preferred the conclusion that the expiration of the limitation period for P's hypothetical damages action against D2 — hypothetical because P did not sue D2 in time or did not sue D1 at all — did not provide D2 a defence to D1's contribution claim.

And, in the successive incident situation, it's stretching a point to claim that the negligence of a later wrongdoer destroyed the plaintiff's ability to prove causation in respect of an earlier wrongdoing, unless one means that because the the injuries are «indivisible» it's impossible for the court to make a valid conclusion as to who caused what.

Unless you have a private conduit for relevant information that you did not disclose, then you have no basis for drawing any valid conclusions as to what information ManuLife used.

If there is no inter-rater reliability for the assessment procedure of child custody evaluations, then the conclusions and recommendations produced by child custody evaluations CAN NOT possibly be valid.

Are the conclusions valid for all children with ADHD or a subset of them?

Conclusions: The new scales appear to be valid and promising for future research on RTW.

CONCLUSION: The French version of the CSBS represents a valid and reliable tool allowing its use both for research and for clinical practice.