Sentences with phrase «lack of rigor in»

Rather, this is to point out another instance of lack of rigor in legal market research.

Parallels with lack of rigor in the climate science community are staggering.

What bSk reveals (again, IMHO) is a lack of rigor in the foundations of climate (and other) science (not in the participants).

I appeal to the IAC report on the IPCC where they critically commented on the lack of rigor in the IPCC stated uncertainties.

Disappointed by the lack of rigor in the U.S. public education system but encouraged by the small number of countries that have dramatically improved student performance, investigative journalist Amanda Ripley set out to uncover what is happening in their public schools that we could — and should — be doing in our own classrooms.

From presidents to principals, billionaires to school board members, governors to teachers, everybody seems to be promising rigor, demanding rigor, or deploring the lack of rigor in American schools.

This concern is understandable given the conflicts endemic to sell - side research and the lack of rigor in technical research.

Not exact matches

«There are real shortcomings in how American politics are covered, including pervasive groupthink among media elites, an unhealthy obsession with the insider's view of politics, a lack of analytical rigor, a failure to appreciate uncertainty, a sluggishness to self - correct when new evidence contradicts pre-existing beliefs, and a narrow viewpoint that lacks perspective.»

DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach criticized the lack of analytical rigor in the recent «nice round number» $ 1,000,000 price targets for the bitcoin, which is reminiscent of previous speculative blow - offs.

To a large extent, the dominant traditions of Judaism and Islam have remained at a plane where the rigor in speaking or thinking of God in terms that may truly reflect the mystery of the divinity, transcending the polarity of God and humanity, is almost lacking.

It is clear from Gunter's essay in this focus section, and from Bergson's work in Duration and Simultaneity that Bergson never underestimated the value of mathematical rigor in demonstration, in philosophic method, and in the achievement of knowledge (indeed, it was Spencer's lack of mathematical rigor that inspired Bergson to attack him, see Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics, 6).

I can't help but laugh at his lack of intellectual rigor in constructing his position, in which he demonstrates the very lack of depth in understanding he is attributing to the «spiritual but not religious».

From the time of Man's Vision of God (1941), he complained that discussions in philosophical theology lacked logical rigor.

But because he developed it out of a background in mathematics and physics, it has a systematic rigor and relevance to contemporary issues that Asian philosophy usually lacks.

Hence the emphasis on praxis and commitment, on a concerned theology, need in no way imply a lack of scholarly rigor or a retreat to fideism.

The theologians behind this «nouvelle théologie» greatly enriched Catholic thought, not least through the role they played in shaping the documents of Vatican II, but their lack of philosophical rigor contributed to an «anti-propositional turn» in Catholic theology after the council.

Porto are the perfect example of how rigor and superior organization can overcome a lack of huge monetary resources in football; they are never billed as candidates in European competitions, but year after year they mix it up in the knockout stages and they do so without spending much money on transfers at all, at least compared to the company they're in.

Although political actors might sometimes have great insights, they aren't philosophers and their thoughts typically lack the degree of rigor that we like in theory.

And so, when I would get frustrated with the lack of mathematical rigor or the lack of being able to control every variable except one in biology, he had been through that.

First, the rigor of the science curriculum in medical schools has not kept pace with advances in the biological sciences; M.D. graduates lacking a rigorous science background find it difficult to develop research programs that can equal those of well - trained basic scientists.

Elsewhere, and in the absence of footnotes, his arguments lack rigor.

High profile security failures in critical government systems caused the NSA to question whether there may be a lack of scientific rigor in cybersecurity engineering...

The policy change provided Phillipi and her colleagues with a handy way of assessing before - and - after changes in pacifier use and breast - feeding, but their analysis lacks the rigor of a carefully designed and controlled study.

The lack of scientific rigor that abounds in many corners of natural medicine is part of the reason that alternative medicine is marginalized by mainstream medicine.

Her suitemate, Colleen Cronin, who lives in Massachusetts and is now a senior at the prestigious Phillips Academy, says Oxbow lacks the academic rigor of her regular school.

Schiess and Rotherham could not draw definitive conclusions about rigor in rural education because of the lack of district - level data.

The lack of a systematic relationship between either the rigor or the quality of state standards and student achievement casts doubt on claims that higher and better standards under the Common Core will, in and of themselves, spur higher student achievement.

Further, research into effects of multimedia relating to comprehension of and motivation toward reading have suffered due to a lack of rigor, affected by the classroom teacher's ambivalence toward the relative effectiveness of technology and by the fact that the teacher is often too heavily invested in text - based forms of communications (Reinking, 2005).

Finally, the empirical analysis included in the report lacks depth and rigor when compared to four other studies — three of which were peer - reviewed — each of which find positive effects of prior school finance reforms in Michigan.

Earlier this month, in an open letter to college presidents and education school deans, Duncan said, «The system we have for training teachers lacks rigor, is out of step with the times, and is given to extreme grade inflation that leaves teachers unprepared and their future students at risk.»

As it is now apparent, the grounds for much of this opposition and subsequent criticism of TEKS — its vagueness, subjectivity, lack of specificity of objective knowledge, overlap from grade to grade, and lack of sufficient rigor — seem to have been borne out by our experience in student achievement in the ensuing ten years of its use.

The lack of college readiness begins in K - 12 classrooms, and state lawmakers have made major changes aimed at beefing up the rigors of coursework.

«For example, we saw that our focus on academic rigor was causing stress and lack of confidence for some students although they were perfectly functional in school.

After NCTQ boss Kate Walsh tore into ed schools for lacking rigor in their teacher training curricula — especially in special education — and state teacher certification agencies for their cozy ties to those schools and their parent universities, AACTE's Jane West accused Walsh of making «sweeping statements» that were «off the mark», as well as attacked its underlying methodology for evaluating ed schools (especially in Texas, the site of NCTQ's latest ode to teacher quality failure).

South Atlanta School of Law and Justice in Atlanta, Georgia found that English and math classes were lacking sufficient rigor and relevance.

Forty percent of teachers said that programs for high - achieving students are «too often watered down and lacking in rigor» (p. 10).

Both Weinberg and others with DBW have been careful to note the limitations of the survey's scope and rigor, in their admirable effort to gather the kind of data so severely lacking around the author experience in publishing today.

DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach criticized the lack of analytical rigor in the recent «nice round number» $ 1,000,000 price targets for the bitcoin, which is reminiscent of previous speculative blow - offs.

[9] Among their concerns, are the use of potential rather than actual impacts, and the validity of the underlying science — as well as the overall lack of rigor involved in developing such estimates.

It is contemporary art in the most contemporary of ways, both good and bad, but there is a rigor to it that some such art lacks.

I don't discuss it my response because it's a scholarship rather than a political / environmental issue, but Kareiva's amateurish portrayal of environmentalism stems in part from his lack of understanding of rigor in the humanities.

I take some umbrage at you insinuation that the reviews of millions of scientific papers before «climategate» were somehow dishonest or lacking in rigor.

«In all cases, data quality was considered; at times, some studies were rejected because of lack of rigor or the interpretations were inconsistent with the scientific evidence.»

Yet, failure to do so represents a double standard, and it is also false equivalence, because «skeptical» science has been subjected to critique, it has repeatedly shown to be seriously lacking in rigor, repeatability (e.g., Loehle and McCulloch — it is impossible to compare their analysis with other reconstructions, and that is just the start of the problems), and has failed to even meet acceptable scientific standards (e.g., works by Douglass, McLane, Lindzen and Choi, Soon and Baliunas, Carter, de Freitas, McIntyre and McKitrick et cetera).

Despite various limitations in data and tools, it should be noted that applying a scientific process is essential if one is to overcome the lack of rigor inherent in attribution claims that are all too often based on mere coincidental associations.

IMO, the lack of rigor / due diligence in the statistics portion of the Wegman Report (well documented here by DC in its own right) is the fault that Wegman will ultimately be hung out to dry on.

Such policies are needed now because we've gone so far, so fast — we are at 397 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere when scientists say we use return to a safe level of 350ppm — and our pollution mitigation and climate adaptation strategies are lacking in rigor, seriousness, and imagination.

There's a complete lack of rigor involved in the mining exams.

Legal academics have, for decades, assumed that they lack the rigor of their peers elsewhere in the university.

Law school does not prepare practitioners to practice, and lacks intellectual rigor (it's remarkable that a discipline founded on the interpretation of texts pays virtually no formal attention to hermeneutics and only outsiders like Stanley Fish, with his background as an English professor, ever write about «theory»; few law schools offer any courses providing any historical or sociological context for the evolving role of common law in capitalist society).