Sentences with phrase «insignificant effect of»

He leaves no excuse for the public and policy makers to prolong the misguided effort to spend trillions of dollars trying to reduce the insignificant effect of CO2 on global climate change.»

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High profile edge cases, like the sexual harassment allegations at Uber, have the unfortunate effect of making ongoing diversity and gender equality issues seem insignificant in comparison.

The Butterfly Effect is a theory that is based on a single occurrence that can profoundly change the course of events; no matter how insignificant that occurrence is perceived to be.

The drug has an unfortunate side effect of tricking the immune system into attacking healthy cells, but the relative damage was insignificant compared to what cancer would have done to them.

Several studies going back even to 1872 has shown that the effects of intercessory prayer are statistically insignificant so as be classified as nothing more than chance.

She also uses the famous «butterfly effect», in which the flapping of a butterfly's wings can trigger a series of reactions that produce a hurricane thousands of miles away, to illustrate the way in which our seemingly insignificant prayers can achieve great things if offered in love.

In addition, it is not possible to identify the individual impact of removing chocolate milk on milk sales or milk waste without unrealistically assuming that all other effects are either insignificant or cancel each other out.

For example, in one study of SIDS cases, the risk of sharing a bed became statistically insignificant after researchers controlled for the effects of recent maternal alcohol consumption, infant duvet use, overcrowding, and parental tiredness (Blair 2006).

«In 2001, the New England Journal of Medicine published an important meta - analysis study that found placebo effects to be insignificant.

In any case, changing one arbitrary standard to another would do nothing about the widespread misinterpretation and misuse of P values, or change the fact that a statistically significant P value can be calculated for an effect that is insignificant in practical terms.

But when injected into hundreds of obese human volunteers, leptin's effect was clinically insignificant.

A 2012 review showed that green tea's boost is even more of a bust: Its use resulted in «statistically insignificant» weight loss and no significant effect on weight management.

The turnover of high - performing teachers is a challenging problem but, in DCPS, we find that the exit of high performers generally has small and statistically insignificant effects on student achievement.»

Although the effect of the spatial distribution of SLR in each CMIP5 model on beach loss rate in Japan is insignificant, the effects of differences in the SLR values among the RCP scenarios and CMIP5 models are significant.

The total energy in these particles is insignificant compared to the energy in the form of light from the sun, so the variation of the magnetic field will not have a direct effect on Earth climate.

To prevent further destruction, Gloria needs to determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world.

This average combines the negative, but statistically insignificant, effects of exits of high - performing teachers with the very large improvements in student achievement resulting from the departures of low - performing teachers.

Expanding school choice has been shown to improve achievement for minority students by about one - third of a standard deviation after a few years of intervention, according to seven of eight random - assignment evaluations (the eighth showed positive but statistically insignificant effects).

Results of examining the differential effects of peers from troubled families by race and gender show relatively large negative and statistically significant test - score effects on white boys and statistically insignificant effects on black boys, black girls, and white girls.

In reading, by contrast, assignment to a Level II or Level III teacher was associated with a large and statistically significant increase in reading achievement, while estimates of the effects of having a teacher from both of the other two groups remained positive but statistically insignificant.

These studies consistently suggest that compared to not participating in FWS, FWS employment may reduce first year grade point averages (GPAs), though the effect was small in three of the four studies and statistically insignificant in two of the four.

Students in countries where a larger share of decisions was made at the national level scored lower in both math and science (the effect in math, however, was statistically insignificant).

Likewise, students of teachers who reported that they had a lot of influence on the subject matter to be taught performed worse in science, while the effect in math was statistically insignificant.

For all students and for subgroups broken down by race and gender, the first - wave reforms had statistically insignificant effects on the probability of entering college.

One might quibble over where the line should be drawn in deciding if a finding is significant or not, but to combine statistically insignificant effects with statistically significant ones is to abandon any semblance of science in policy work.

The effects of minimum - competency exams on average 8th grade NAEP test scores were positive but small and mainly insignificant.

The researchers found that troubled peers have a large and statistically significant negative effect on the math and reading achievement of higher income children, but only a small and statistically insignificant effect on the achievement of low - income children.

The effects of turnover on curriculum and instruction are insignificant, and the measure of classroom curriculum and instruction is negatively, but very weakly, related to student achievement.

Broad Run may abstain from voting a proxy when the effect on the economic interests of investors in the Focus Fund or the value of the Focus Fund's portfolio holding is indeterminable or insignificant; or when the cost of voting the proxies outweighs the benefits, e.g., when voting certain non-U.S. securities.

If you have a healthy credit score and have only applied for a couple of cards recently, then the effect on your credit score will most likely be insignificant enough to cause any real damage to your score.

For instance, in the example above, even though a whooping sum of $ 1,300 was paid off from the beginning credit card balance, the effects it had on the average daily balance is insignificant because the payment was made just a day to the end of the month.

Caroline Purdey, CML market and data analyst, said that they are looking forward to September figures because the effects of the Olympics and Diamond Jubilee are already insignificant.

As you can see, the short - term effects of Brexit, which are mainly from a far weaker Pound, will likely mean an insignificant increase in Welltower's payout ratio for 2016.

The client is paying for something with insignificant or no effect, except that the patient is being exposed to unnecessary risk of an adverse reaction.

These products are usually well tolerated Clinically insignificant decrease in platelet function (blood clotting) Stomach upset is possible, but are usually mild and include flatulence and soft bowel movements High doses could enhance effects of anticoagulants If you notice anything unusual, contact your veterinarian Can this drug be given with other drugs?

Further, «Although it is statistically impossible to prove the null hypothesis [i.e., no effect], if an effect existed within this sampling of dogs, it was small and clinically insignificant.»

Until Dawn impressively weaves player choice into the overarching narrative with a unique «Butterfly Effect» system which will have small or, what would seem to be, insignificant decisions affecting certain outcomes of the story and determining the fate of corresponding characters.

Some of these decisions you make might seem insignificant at times, but they can have a lasting effect on both your character and the overall narrative — there are multiple endings to see unfold, so you'll never know if your actions might give you a happy ending or a more disastrous one.

And while it could be argued that the dazzling boom and bust of a few 26 - year - old white male skateboarders - cum - abstract - painters isn't representative of thousands of other emerging artists, the spectacular market failure of that one, tiny group had a much broader cooling effect on the market: With collectors suddenly questioning the value of their not - insignificant investments (no matter how rich you are, watching your $ 100,000 painting go to $ 20,000 in a few months has to be unpleasant), a crisis of confidence resulted in some very good galleries going under.

I tend to disagree, in that I do not think the effect of the Ozone Optical translucence (300nm to 1.2 um) of the Stratosphere is insignificant.

We should beware of thinking that an effect which is «insignificant» statistically is necessarily «insignificant» ethically (this is an equivocation, a logical fallacy due to the use of words with different meaning).

The effect of more CO2 is an insignificant increase in the radiation emitted from the coldest, lowest radiance layer of the atmosphere, «too tiny to matter.»

These watts per square metre are irrelevant, even if they made any sense — you quote the wiki giving uv, visible and infrared yet AGWSF in its fiction Greenhouse Effect Energy Budget gives shortwave infrared from the Sun as only 1 % of its «Solar», its «Shortwave in» — it considers it insignificant and most of the time it isn't even mentioned, nor the shortwave uv the other side of visible which is included in the «shortwave in».

Cloud variations are obviously an important element on a global scale, but the effects of Arctic ice melting are important locally and also a non-trivial fraction of global albedo feedbacks, which are a contributor to total feedback that is smaller than those from water vapor and probably from cloud feedbacks, but not insignificant.

The biggest problem with «writing off solar effects on climate as insignificant», at the same time attributing most of the recent changes to AGW, is that it does not appear to stand up over the longer term.

He found but one holdout: S. V. Avakyan who, writing for the Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, concluded that «contribution of the greenhouse effect of carbon - containing gases to global warming turns out to be insignificant.»

But the effect of CO2 gas warming is also insignificant - in comparison between heating from CO2 and infrared wavelength from the sun starting at 2500 nm to 30,000 nm, it seems to me this entire infrared spectrum could more significant as compared to any purported claim about warming due to CO2.

It's also the only plausible timing — the CO2 emissions (and other alleged anthropogenic effects) were simply insignificant before roughly the middle of the 20th century.

And the radiant effects from all greenhouse gas [including H20 gas, which dominate greenhouse gas] has a rather insignificant effect in terms of trapping radiant energy - H20 gas has large effect due to it's latent heat.

As it stands there's no empirical evidence of any sort that CO2 causes climate warming, and indeed now the ipcc is maintaining that CO2 is both a cause and an effect of temperature change, which, unless CO2 was only an insignificant contributor to warming, would without a doubt lead to a runaway greenhouse with boiling oceans.