Sentences with phrase «instead of actual data»

Ames Simmons of Equality North Carolina says, «When we vote for politicians who choose to make policy based on false stereotypes of marginalized communities instead of actual data rooted in scientific methodology, we threaten to set back progress in our country to dark ages of superstition.»

Not exact matches

Actual data provided by a large onion grower confirmed that using RPCs instead of corrugated containers increased their annual shipping costs by 10.4 percent system - wide.

Arguing about actual numbers and data instead of tone and hurt feelings.

But, Dawid notes, physicists have begun to use purely theoretical factors, such as the internal consistency of a theory or the absence of credible alternatives, to update estimates, instead of basing those revisions on actual data.

However, it has proved frustratingly difficult to compare teachers» actual effectiveness in the classroom, because as a field, we too often rely on proxies like certification and tenure instead of on data that quantify teachers» impact on student achievement.

Thanks to you and Jane for gathering actual data instead of bar anecdotes, and for your solid advice.

Look at the actual data, instead of making up hypotheses about how it is distributed.

Thank you for putting this report together — it's nice to have actual data to discuss, instead of just «I have an author buddy that said...» stories.

The root of the problem with using indicators to analyze the forex market lies in the fact that all indicators are second - hand; this means that instead of looking at the actual price data itself, you are instead trying to analyze and interpret some variation of price data.

General: Since the publication of the NPRM, we have continued to examine available data and have based our revised burden calculation on the actual number of borrowers with adverse credit histories who documented extenuating circumstances, and the actual number of borrowers with adverse credit histories who obtained an endorser who does not have an adverse credit history during the period of March 23, 2013, through February 26, 2014, instead of basing our burden estimate on derived numbers.

I just fail to see how putting up a strawman argument instead of actually saying «Ok, check all the stations and help us identify the actual conditions the readings were collect under so we can have the best data.»

Instead of continually bemoaning the limits of experimental data to date, let us base our claims on actual the results of actual ranch management operations.

Unfortunately, some dissenters are professionals at producing a smoke screen of sciency sounding bafflegab instead of an actual scientific argument based on the data.

Since this is 7Watts / m ^ 2 higher than the actual measured average and is more than a full Watt / m ^ 2 higher than any value measured in the past 31 years, if one were to criticize someone for violating science protocol it would not be Roy Spencer whose basic data and computations are readily available for scrutiny by anyone who whishes to do so; it is Trenberth for using contrived values for OLR in his energy balance computations instead of using actual physical data measured directly by satellites.

Why isn't a TCR type of simulation, but instead using actual history and 200 year projected GHG levels in the atmosphere, that would produce results similar to a TCR simulation (at least for the AGW temp increase that would occur when the CO2 level is doubled) and would result in much less uncertainty than ECS (as assessed by climate model dispersions), a more appropriate metric for a 300 year forecast, since it takes the climate more than 1000 years to equilibrate to the hypothesized ECS value, and we have only uncertain methods to check the computed ECS value with actual physical data?

Clearly the instrumental data available bears no relationship whatsoever to Michael Mann's hockey stick which, instead of relying on actual instrumental records (and extremely good observation) believed that trees made better thermometers than thermometers.

If you were to provide actual data showing the GHG emissions from a single trip to a mall to purchase a household - worth of LED lightbulbs exceeds the GHG reductions achieved by operating those LEDs for their rated lifetime instead of incandescents, your argument might be worth listening to.

While there have been a number of industry surveys over the years on expense data capture, we chose instead to study actual law firm capture and billing rates.

Instead of storing a person's actual records, they use codes to represent the data inside of the files.

However, when you talk about the actual shipping data instead of considering the total sales, things are a little bit different.

With this system, a money transfer can actually be as simple as sending data, instead of as complicated as sending actual money.

Due to lack of data on actual real - world exposures, EPA has proposed a highly sophisticated alternative «framework» which instead would evaluate the probability that children might someday be exposed to lead paint dangers in a commercial building