Sentences with phrase «lack of evidence pointing»

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I don't have a ton of empirical evidence for that last point, other than the fact that hedge fund managers get paid a lot, and there is therefore no obvious lack of incentives to manage a hedge fund.

All evidence points to a lack of a will of God that could be decisive, to chose to make truth false.

So you make your point just don't pretend that you are above being pigeon holed or committed to a belief due to lack of evidence.

To support this claim, Cochran points to the lack of any evidence of discrimination and he has publically stated his commitment to treating all subordinates with equality.

Capital punishment's lack of demonstrated superiority as a deterrent (the evidence for its effectiveness being at best mixed), the capacity of society to protect itself equally well by permanently imprisoning those who are currently being executed (which is possible at limited marginal cost, especially when one takes into account the cost of the extended trial procedures and interminable appeals and reviews which usually accompany capital punishment)-- all these points are important, but their utility is chiefly as rebuttal arguments in response to the empirically weak but emotionally strong claims made on behalf of capital punishment.

I come from a very religious family and left it behind because upon exploring and seeking answers, nothing melded and the lack of evidence for a god piled up to the point where there was no longer justification for believing.

Atheists aren't out to prove there is no God... they simply point out all the things wrong with the thinking and lack of evidence exhibited by theists.

But you are correct that the actual case / crime only entails the actual struggle, and by that point it was just two dumb - dumbs in a fight, and the lack of evidence is what really made acquittal the only choice for the jury.

I wouldn't take this rumor as truth due to the lack of evidence, I will point to how Wenger has looked to offload players at 30 when Arsenal have backed him, if Silent Stan is actually going to get the players Wenger wants this time round then I would think Wenger is looking at top YOUNGISH talent who can do the job for us now.

Whilst some fans point to the lack of titles as the evidence of failure, my personal frustrations has been from repeated mistakes like the lack of investment in transfers and tactical issues on the pitch, because I strongly believe that no team has the divine right to any trophy just by turning up.

Some will point to Bafetimbi Gomis, formerly of Swansea, scoring twenty league goals in Ligue 1 last season, as evidence of a lack of quality with the French top division.

And though one could argue that Algeria have been the most impressive African national team of the last couple of years, domestic critics point to a lack of star power as evidence that this team should not yet be considered elite.

As Jon Rentoul points out (I think you're slightly misreading him) there is a «lack of any evidence of positive enthusiasm for either Alan Johnson or David Miliband in the opinion polls.»

The researchers found that three sites lack absolute age control: at Chobot, Alberta, the three Clovis points found lack stratigraphic context, and the majority of other diagnostic artifacts are younger than Clovis by thousands of years; at Morley, Alberta, ridges are assumed without evidence to be chronologically correlated with Ice Age hills 2,600 kilometers away; and at Paw Paw Cove, Maryland, horizontal integrity of the Clovis artifacts found is compromised, according to that site's principal archaeologist.

But despite the lack of direct evidence, he points to some intriguing animal studies — from polar bears and penguins to giant pandas and barnacle geese — that suggest the answers might depend on an animal's ecology.

Kukalova - Peck pointed out that the gliding theory not only lacked practicality — until their wings grew long enough to glide, bugs who jumped out of trees would have fallen on their mouthparts — but there was no fossil evidence to support it.

The lack of evidence for attachment points for large muscles make powered flight seem less likely than gliding.

But he and others point out that hard evidence for this hypothesis has been lacking, largely because the single filaments found on these plant eaters lack the complexity of the protofeathers found on early meat eaters.

The researchers also pointed to the lack of evidence for enhanced performance in horses and human athletes.

On the other hand, accumulating evidence points to a bigger correlation between a lack of physical exercise and high body fat, measured by the body - mass - index, and high blood pressure.

Epidemiologic data has shown that chronic depression, stress, and lack of social support are all risk factors for cancer.14 A study in humans even showed chronic depression and even the death of a mother during childhood to be associated with increased breast cancer in women.15 While we do not have concrete evidence in humans, animal studies more definitively point to stress as a cause of cancer.

pointed out that unlike virgin olive oil, coconut oil does not have a large body of evidence for its health claims (possibly due to a lack of coconut oil consumption in Europe and America until very recently)(24).

However, Unions highlighted reports from MPs on the cross-party education select committee and the public accounts committee, both published last week, which criticised the academies and free schools programme and pointed to the lack of evidence that it was leading to improved standards.

To support its claim regarding the supposed lack of evidence for the success of school choice programs, CBTA points to a few studies of school voucher programs.

As Heckman and Carneiro point out, the evidence on the benefits of competition within education is limited - a necessary consequence of the lack of serious experimentation with meaningful choice - based reforms.

Petrilli pointed to a lack of outside studies of online credit recovery programs, and that most of the evidence of their effectiveness comes from the companies that make the programs.

Chetty might even agree with this assertion, although he would disagree with the EVAAS's (typical) lack of use of controls for student background variables / demographics — a point of contention that has been debated, now, for years, with research evidence supporting both approaches; hence, the intense debates about VAM — based bias, now also going on for years.

«And sometimes, no matter how outlandish the claim, no matter how many people point to the lack of logic, no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary... some people choose to believe it.

Hardly will you succeed if you lack evidence to support your point of view.

They criticized the increasingly impenetrable securitization business, vehemently pointed out the perils of risky loans and provided evidence of the lack of credibility of the rating agencies.

The point that I want to make here is somewhat different, and that is that the bird conservationists, regardless of the validity or lack of validity in the studies they publish in journals, exhibit contradictions in their own writings about cats that are clear evidence of their lack of objectivity on this issue.

It's too bad, however, that Dual Destinies lacks some of the cool play mechanics from past Ace Attorney games — specifically touch - screen fingerprint analysis and the ability to examine evidence in 3D at will; the former is especially odd because fingerprinting becomes a focal point on a couple of occasions.

Tom Yulsman at the University of Colorado makes this point bitingly at CEJournal, noting the ridiculousness of rehashing basic climate science in the face of clear evidence that the lack of a forward - looking American energy policy --- particularly one aimed at weaning the country from at least the liquid fossil fuel — is a real - time crisis.

All evidence points to mankind's over abundance of cleverness (intelligence + creativity) and lack of wisdom (sapience + tacit knowledge of how the world works).

It's the combination of lack of evidence, lack of reason, and a priori extreme implausibility that drives home Russell's point, justifying not just the burden of proof, but a heavy one.

That point has likely been exceeded as evidenced by the lack of predicted warming in the tropical troposphere.

# 5 [lack of hard evidence] may be ultimately the deciding point one way or the other.

The only thing I find noteworthy is that it further reinforces the point that there is no scientific consensus on a best estimate for equilibrium climate sensitivity, which is entirely in agreement with the IPCC's statement in AR5 WG1 SPM: «No best estimate for equilibrium climate sensitivity can now be given because of a lack of agreement on values across assessed lines of evidence and studies.»

Pointing out that these arguments lack substance — both warming and cooling is «evidence» for climate change — fails to address the real dynamic that drives them: a vacuum of political ideas.

In summary, your argument pointing to the lacking statistical significance of the temperature trend estimate for a time period is not sufficient empirical / statistical evidence or scientific justification for the claim that there was a «pause» of global surface / troposphere warming.

But the lack of statistically significant results and, more important, the absence of evidence pointing to a smoking gun — a physical mechanism in the climate system that ties Arctic changes to extreme events — has left many top climate researchers unconvinced that rapid Arctic warming is a major player in causing extreme weather events outside of the Arctic itself.

No need, and yes, rather dumb * of me to forget the decay products (* or perhaps just evidence of lack of time on my part), although the broader point I made still stands, which is that some sources of radiation are otherwise chemically benign and others are not, though I admit much ignorance on the relative importance of chemical toxicity and wouldn't be surprised to find out it is generally quite small in such incidents like Fukushima and Chernobyl — but I don't actually know it; I thought perhaps it deserved clarification (and maybe — note that I'm not justifying this — that's why some people may see radiation from a pollutant as worse than radiation from natural source?).

They point to the orgy of a lack of evidence in demonstration.

The department pointed to the plaintiff's lack of evidence or explanation regarding how the barrel came to be in the road and how long it had been there.

An extreme example of this for a defendant was where all of the claimant's evidence pointed to a lack of mental capacity, a view shared by three out of four experts instructed of the defendant.

Here, the respondent points to the lack of any evidence in the applicant's record that would support a finding that she had suffered any damages as a result of the posting.

It upheld the acquittal on the charge of pointing a firearm based on a lack of evidence.

The success of the wife's argument regarding trusts was also bolstered by the lack of evidence put forward on this point by the companies and the husband, which was criticised by the Supreme Court.»

It should be noted that members of the cryptocurrency community have dismissed Mr. Lei's assessments as conspiratorial and lacking in evidence — with many pointing to Mr. Lei's frequent insinuation pertaining to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), including implying that the CIA may in some way have colluded with bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, as unsubstantiated claims that serve to undermine Mr. Lei's credibility.

However, evidence for the relationship between poverty and children's distress is limited by the use of measures of poverty at a single point in time, by a failure to examine race or ethnic differences, and by a lack of concern with explanations for poverty's effects.