Sentences with phrase «give spurious»

Additionally, the common practice during the 1950s of moving weather stations from downtown locations to airports, outside the «heat island,» would give a spurious impression of cooling, but Mitchell and others allowed for that too in their calculations.

From the MW paper, it sounds like they considered proxy selection and the method used by Mann08 to reduce the number of proxies used, but was suspect that the method may give spurious results:

For example, there's lots and lots of holes in the latter (post 1990) Kathmandu record, which in this case happens to give it a spurious uptrend, as the missing data is more in the winter than the summer...

[Response: My greatest objection is your choice of methods — they are likely to give you spurious results, and therefore I do not trust the conclusions.

Two - stream heat flow gives spurious absorption.

Not exact matches

I don't mind them using their freedom of speech to lobby others to adopt their view, but constantly proposing spurious legislation with absolutely nothing concrete to back it up should be view the same way frivolous lawsuits are and those who can not give any evidence to their claims should be penalized for wasting everyone else's time.

The lis de verbis can verge on the self - serving and spurious when it is claimed that advertising serves producers while marketing serves consumers, on the disingenuous grounds that marketing gives people what they already want.

The appearance of objectivity thus given is spurious, however, since the New Testament does not «stand» in such a manner.

UK institutional checks have been hollowed out and replaced by a spurious rubber stamp, giving the green light to investors.

According to the statement, «The transactions which gave rise to the false reports and the spurious claims from which they have sprung have already been submitted to the Court's consideration and ordinarily should not be the subject of discourse or advertorials.»

it makes too many divisions based on spurious «identity» issues, and it obviously gives no equality of vote.

When schools fail the spot checks, often on spurious, minor or even factually incorrect grounds, the students lose their place and their visa and are given just two months to leave the country.

Andrew Lansley refuses to give «spurious legitimacy» to Andy Burnham's conference on care for the elderly

Comparisons between groups may lead to spurious conclusions — a hospital that regularly admits substance abusers will have artificially low rates of readmission, giving a false appearance of better performance.»

The information you have given seems extremely spurious to say the least.

«The leap to multiple - choice test scores as the best measure is a spurious effort at improvement at best, and one that gives cause for frightening concern.»

He has given birth to a mixed progeny of painters who have been inspired by his dynamism and have often taken from it a rather spurious courage.

The processing of these observations is straightforward, but large gaps in spatial coverage compromise the reliability of global averages, and changes in instrumentation can give rise to spurious trends.

I imagine that this would involve a lot of work, and, given that the journals would probably behave like Nature and reject the article on spurious grounds, the work may be nugatory.

It is not sufficient, because you also would have to show that the statistical trend estimate, which gives you Zero - or negative warming over the recent time period is not just something spurious due to the very noisy character of the limited data, masking a signal that you may see when your data sample is larger.

Carbon traders; dodgy academics; vulture capitalists pecking on the bloated carcass of renewable energy; environmental NGOs; environmental consultancies who specialise in giving «expert» testimony at planning appeals, arguing on the most spurious grounds that no the bats and birds in this area aren't going to be affected by this new wind turbine they're going to be happier than ever no really; sustainability officers at every level of local government; advisers attached to every business who advise them how to reduce their CO2 count; PR companies that specialise in green awareness; dog - on - a-rope wind turbine scamsters; environmental lawyers.

The pressure error meant that the temperatures were being associated with a point higher in the ocean column than they should have been, and this (given that the ocean cools with depth) introduced a spurious cooling trend when compared to earlier data.

This shabby analysis has been debunked by Richard Telford http://quantpalaeo.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/not-phraud-but-phoolishness/ His conclusion: «The changing geographic and seasonal patterns in data availability means that simply calculating the mean pH for each year will give all sorts of spurious trends in the analysis.

Philip Johnson has flatly asserted that ID is an effort to give a scientific basis to creationism, and William Dembski, author of the spurious «specified complexity» argument, has said ID is «to enable God to receive credit for creation.»

The company's interest is in getting new clients, and in preventing giving rewards to spurious referrals, that is ones which were not genuine potential new business.

The company's interest is in getting new clients, and in preventing giving rewards to spurious referrals, that is ones...

That number is still under a million, but we prefer not to give it out so people don't make spurious comparisons to sites that publish article pages (which is almost every other news site).

Fourth, given the large number of dependent variables, some findings may be spurious.