Sentences with phrase «little empirical evidence of»

Although there are many guidelines for climate communication, there is little empirical evidence of their efficacy, whether for dispassionately explaining the science or for persuading people to act in more sustainable ways.

This has been seen anecdotally by animal shelter workers for years but given the limited detailed records that many shelters keep, there is little empirical evidence of this.

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Huff Stevens concurs: «Quantitative studies have, until very recently, shown little evidence of fundamental changes in empirical job security.»

A more recent survey of the empirical research by Reed College's Kimberly Clausing found «very little robust evidence linking corporate tax rates and wages.»

I think the causal link between working hard and being successful is a very flimsy one — there's very little in the way of empirical evidence to back it up, even Buffet himself talks of winning the «ovarian lottery».

Barnett contends that the criticisms of a strong patent - rights system overlook recent empirical evidence and have overestimated the impact and scope of problems including «patent trolls» (firms that own patents but do not manufacture products), «royalty stacks» (the total demands of multiple intellectual property holders for remuneration leave too little revenue left for the manufacturer), and «patent thickets» (complex and conflicting legal claims that increase transaction costs for manufacturers).

While some of these measures seem sensible, overall there is little empirical evidence that such security measures decrease the likelihood of school shootings.

@Alex Most atheists here have openly stated that the existence of a god or gods is logically possible, but the total lack of empirical evidence for any god, let alone the very specific gods of torah, bible, koran, etc, is more than a little suspi - cious.

There is little or no empirical evidence supporting Darwin's claim of macroevolution yet on «faith» someday we will prove it.

As noted, the majority of the audience of religious television programs are people who are already actively involved in a local church and there is therefore little empirical evidence to support the contention that religious programs on television are «draining people out of the local churches.»

It was noted there that so far there has been little empirical evidence to clarify the validity both of the criticisms and defense of the paid - time broadcasters.

Until recently, little empirical evidence existed regarding the impact of data sharing and withholding on these and other aspects of science.

Mounting empirical evidence to date has implicated isoflavones in a wide range of experimental endpoints, leaving little doubt that, when choosing a diet, careful consideration must be given to the role of these compounds in mammalian physiology.

There is little empirical evidence supporting SMR, and the literature that does exist mainly reports the chronic, but not the acute effects, of myofascial release on muscle performance.

A Little Knowledge Is a Good Thing: Empirical Evidence of the Effectiveness of Pre-Purchasing Homeownership Counseling (PDF).

After spending four years sifting through hundreds of studies on teacher education, a national panel has concluded that there's little empirical evidence to show that many of the most common practices in the field produce effective teachers.

The measures of teacher quality that are used by most public school systems to screen candidates and determine compensation — certification, experience, and education level — have been well researched, but there is little definitive empirical evidence that these characteristics, defined in general terms, are associated with higher student achievement.

However, there is surprisingly little empirical evidence on the relationship between students» exposure to teachers of their own race and their subsequent academic performance.

All of this seemed to make sense, but there was little empirical evidence, just promise and hope.

While there is little empirical evidence that the use of technology improves student learning, the descriptive evidence of technology's affect on student social studies experiences is strong.

There is little empirical evidence, however, about the potential impact of these alternate approaches on current evaluation systems.

The 2012 study found that modern breeds only emerged in the 19th century and that claims of their antiquity are based on little or no historical or empirical evidence.

The trouble is that there remains little empirical evidence to support the idea, as we were surprised to find out when we talked to UC San Diego atmospheric physicist Veerabhadran Ramanathan about his research showing that another type of aerosol — black carbon — had a significant warming effect:

This adjacent plot of 5 - year temperature change versus 5 - year atmospheric CO2 level change is based on the most recent empirical evidence published by the government's GISS / NASA scientists (and they happen to be some of the largest proponents of chicken little global warming calamities).

I'm actually unaware of any empirical evidence that illustrates that the observed warming is caused other than a little by us evil mankind.

Regardless of this unequivocal and indisputable scientific empirical evidence, which challenges the «consensus» global warming orthodoxy, the mainstream media chooses to gleefully push the latest discredited propaganda regarding the «hottest year ever» - an event that has been happening since the end of Little Ice Age, with an astoundingly great frequency.

The problem for you lot is that there is little or no empirical evidence that the anthropogenic component of thatwarming can be observed above the noise, of course.

Based on the gold - standard empirical evidence, it can safely be said that the increased atmospheric CO2 levels of 2016 had little acceleration impact, if any, since the earlier period - at a much lower level CO2 - exhibited greater atmospheric temperature acceleration.

But while there is widespread allusion to the progressive globalization of typical legal practice, there is surprisingly little actual empirical evidence.

Because ABSs have not been in existence all that long and because for much of that time it has been difficult to get approval to operate them, there is today little empirical evidence regarding changes to access to justice.

The empirical evidence suggests, however, that age has little bearing on the process, and may even slightly increase your chances of success.

Although the majority of evidence - based programs are designed for group delivery, group process and its role in participant outcomes have received little empirical attention.

Many economists suspect that downward nominal wage rigidities in ongoing labor contracts are an important source of employment fluctuations over the business cycle but there is little direct empirical evidence on this conjecture.