Sentences with phrase «little more observation»

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We all have little voices in our heads - some more than others, based on my very unscientific observations of humans over the years.

The aim of imaginative generalization is not to purify observation of interpretation, for if such were the case we would be left with little more than the bland experience of the stone: «If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography» (PR 15/22).

Ethnographic descriptions and anthropological observations of the 19th century highlighted the fact that Malayarayans were different from other hill tribes of Travancore on many counts.3 The Travancore Census Report (1901) describes Malayarayans as «a class of hill tribes, who are little more civilised than the Mannans, and have fixed abodes in the slopes of high mountain ranges.

I am reminded of an observation Alasdair MacIntyre made as early as 1981 in his justly famous After Virtue, to the effect that moral and political discourse is now little more than mutually traded expressions of indignation.

Here's Emily Kay with more on - site observations from a fun day at the Augusta's «little course.»

I also add my observations of how these activities can help children learn, grow, and become more creative, enthusiastic little people!

Though these observations are preliminary at best, and may indicate little more than the fact that Uganda has not seen international intervention on the same scale as DRC, Bosnia or Afghanistan, they elicit several conclusions that beg further consideration.

Last June Gilliland reported at an American Astronomical Society meeting in Boston that the unanticipated variation in starlight means Kepler has to make more observations to complete the survey of its little patch of sky.

Follow - up observations of Kepler data had confirmed a little more than a thousand planets prior to the Princeton - NASA announcement.

Little penguins were more likely to work together to hunt schooling prey than solitary prey, according to observations made using animal - borne cameras published Dec. 2, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Grace Sutton from the Deakin University, Australia, and colleagues.

The joke above is usually told as a commentary on how the ideas of science are far removed from the concerns of ordinary people, but I see a more encouraging lesson embedded in this wry little observation.

The time from formation of a tornado to touch down is no more than a few tens of minutes, «providing little time for operational observation, identification and warning,» the VORTEX team notes.

We are understanding a little more about the Super Massive Black Hole at the centre of our galaxy and observations are also revealing that Einstein was right about his theory of general relativity.

Since i'm not a woman, i might be off on this observation but if you're a woman you'll have to wade through a lot of socially awkward dates because the population is skewed toward «tech - savvy,» which usually comes with a little more social awkwardness.

Not only is Nadine dropping some truth bombs, but these poignant observations allow us to like her and see that there is more to her than a whiny little first world problems teenage bitch.

She met all the times I worried in the first 30 minutes that the film would be little more than a nostalgia - dripping scrapbook with incisive observations about how difficult it can be to connect with the people closest to us.

Poignant, maybe, is the observation that the audience for Knoxville's «Jackass» is the very audience that needs a little sensitivity training — better would be the question of whether the picture succeeds in deflating bigotry or, more likely, giving the jerk - offs of the world a cluster of disabled people to laugh at.

As educators who have spent over 20 years researching, observing and studying classroom practice, we are even more convinced that many of the past practices in classroom observation relied on snapshot observations made by supervisors with little professional or academic learning.

Older students might provide a little more substance in their observations by writing a brief essay that includes such statements as «Madagascar has more than 5 million more people than Zambia has.»

For many teachers, it meant little more than putting on a «dog and pony show» when the appraiser arrived for the obligatory 45 minutes of observation.

Data analyzed by Learning Sciences International researchers — more than 2 million data points related to classroom strategies collected from teacher observations — indicates that teachers are spending so little classroom time on activities associated with cognitively complex lessons that it will be very difficult for students to succeed on the new assessments.

As we are timing, each member of the pair takes turns writing observations, allowing a little more time for recording.

Bruno's population «estimate» strikes me as little more than a misinformed guess — about as credible as her observation that these cats prefer Beemers.

I got ta laugh at his observation that the new controller seems to have a little more of a matte finish on the handles and D - pad where as the «old» one (i.e. the one he's probably logged 300 + hours of playtime on) looks a bit more «glossy».

Of course, there will be other titles, and the line - up does look exciting, so that's little more than an observation on my part.

The picture all of these observations paint is of a good game that could have been even better if pushed a little further in various areas: a little more challenge, a story with perhaps a bit more build up towards the climax, and music that strives to go beyond ambiance in key moments could have enhanced Apocalipsis considerably.

This work is endearing, a touching profile of urban change, but it nevertheless remains little more than an observation.

I was busy trying to find ways where the imagery and the material and the meanings of the painting would be not an illustration of my will but more like an unbiased documentation of my observations, and by observations I mean that literally of my excitement about the way in the city you have on one lot a forty story building and right next to it you have a little wooden shack.

Comparing models to observations is perfectly fine, but the comparison has to be apples - with - apples and the analysis has to be a little more sophisticated than saying «look at the lines» (or «linear striations»).

The models in the case of AGW, are a little more scientific than either approach /;, the variables can not all be counted for, but they do provide insights to the totality of the research, and the models, (and data fed into the models) satellite data and observations from researchers in the geographical areas affected by GW, agree more than do not, as long as the averages are taken into account.

You do an excellent job of explaining that our knowledge from models and observations is a little more complicated than that, and the response is «So does global warming cause hurricanes?»

At one end are studies based on observations and suggesting little more than 1 ◦ C of warming per doubling.

I prefer the more basic test of seeing whether the observations lie within the spread of the model runs, which seems a little more robust.

Meanwhile, scientists are sounding alarms that resonate more than just a little like Galileo versus the Ptolemaists in Galileo's scientific observation that the earth is not the center of the universe around which the sun and all else rotate.

When a continuing series of peak hottest years occurs every four or five years, each peak a little hotter than the last, then there is an obvious temptation to view that particular metric as being a more useful indicator of the validity of the AR5 climate models than would be the central trend of the observations.

Little more could be said without further decades of observations — and a theory to explain why there should be any connection at all between the sunspot cycle and weather.

What I don't understand is why there is so much angst about what is after all only simple empirical observations about the nature of a time series (even if aspects of the analysis maybe open to theoretical debate), and so little curiosity about what this all means for statistical inference more generally in climate science.

Classroom instruction and behind the wheel training to meet your state's basic requirements 30 hours in class 4 hours state of the art driving simulation 5 hours of driving with a police officer trainer 5 hours of driving observation - WA Teen Drivers Safety Education & Certification (Advanced)- Advanced Course - Recommended for the driver needing a little more practice.

If you are work shadowing for a day, they will expect little more than a keen sense of observation and interest.

With regard to the sample size required for valid application of this modeling approach, we are hesitant to speak of sufficient sample sizes, since a large number of observations with little score variation over time (as in our second empirical application) does not necessarily provide richer information than a smaller sample with more fluctuations.

The Committee's observations are little more than a polemical attack on the Government's Indigenous policies.