Sentences with phrase «many dubious assumptions»

We have never understood the truism that most first - generation wealth is created on the strength of one idea or company, and then concludes with the dubious assumption that in order to preserve it, it must be spread among a thousand other companies» Frank Martin

Under this highly dubious assumption, climate policy only shifts capital around between industries and provinces but can not affect total investment.

That has turned out to be, at best, a highly dubious assumption.

Now that Cuomo has «declared» and has to start answering questions (assuming that the press does its job... a dubious assumption), his lead will significantly diminish.

While this sounds low for the party's absolute core vote, remember that turnout at the last election was 62 %, so if all that 13 % always vote (a dubious assumption in itself) we are talking about roughly a fifth of actual voters.

It's a very dubious assumption that he would side with apartheid Israel in the present day if he were alive.

Then most multiverse critique rests on some combination of the following three dubious assumptions:

They've shed light on dubious assumptions and frequently brought a healthy rigor, one that was too often missing in the»80s and»90s.

BUT, the framing of this problem and solution is based on all sorts of dubious assumptions and mindsets: one, as this post argues convincingly, is that the change of medium to a computer is neutral on pedagogy (it's not).

Unfortunately, this overblown estimate rests on two fairly dubious assumptions.

The Proposal would require creation of a significant new bureaucracy and legal team to administer and defend its dubious assumptions of authority.»

That's a dubious assumption at best.

[10] Though far less than the «one billion birds» sometimes cited by TNR opponents, [11] ABC's «estimate» is based on some dubious assumptions.

Assuming that the effects of GHG reductions on hurricane intensity are instantaneous and exactly proportional to emissions concentrations (also dubious assumptions, but lets go with them) under full and successful implementation of Kyoto, including the participation of the US, the reduction in projected damages would be about $ 0.03.»

It's defined by Nic Lewis in the article, as least undermined by dubious assumptions and most closely related to data.

The supposed stable configuration of geography, with relatively predictable climate patterns, coastlines and icepacks in familiar locations, and clear demarcations of territorial control on land are increasingly dubious assumptions as weather patterns change, sea levels rise and ice packs disintegrate while technological innovations, communications and global markets cause rapid fluctuations in the price in food and other essentials across boundaries.

Let's forget for a moment that that area doesn't really exist as anything other than a mathematical construct based on dubious assumptions.

The rationale for homogenization is based on the dubious assumption that all neighboring weather stations should display the same climate trends.

The frustrating aspect, beyond the unverifiable timeframes and dubious assumptions of climate change and impacts is that we're already observing some of the formative (and probably much more predictable) economic aspects.

These scholars survey the green jobs literature, analyze its assumptions, and show how the special interest groups promoting the idea of green jobs have embedded dubious assumptions and techniques within their analyses.

Like pretty much every paper ever published by the climate alarmism industry, all the scary predictions are merely projections based on modeled scenarios dependent on so many dubious assumptions that their conclusions are objectively worthless.

The senator recently criticized the agency for releasing a series of white papers on methane emissions which, he argued, made dubious assumptions about the industry and the government's ability to make it more efficient.

These dubious assumptions, which are pulled out of thin air, are laundered by being passed through these complex black boxes we call climate models and suddenly the results are somehow scientific proof of AGW.

While many scientists and climate change activists hailed December's Paris agreement as a historic step forward for international efforts to limit global warming, the landmark accord rests on a highly dubious assumption: to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global average temperature to less than 2 °C (much less the more ambitious goal of 1.5 °C), we don't just need to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to essentially zero by the end of this century.

Whether even 10 % of practitioners are including official statutes in their binders is, however, a dubious assumption.

The idea that a teacher trained in the use of a handgun would succeed in ending a shooting rampage by someone with an assault rifle is simply an assertion, nothing more, based on dubious assumptions and best - case conditions.

Such an orientation may help researchers and policymakers avoid the pitfalls of a research approach that builds on the dubious assumption that having a child with ID is a threat.

Not exact matches

Lawyers» stubborn refusal to recognize their affinities with other highly skilled, well - educated sellers of services seems to rest either on the arrogant assumption that businesspeople have no ethics, or the dubious proposition that businesspeople invariably place short - term profit maximization ahead of all other considerations.

You HAVE to realize that your beliefs are based on dubious psychological assumptions about the nature of a child's psyche, and on top of that, they contradict themselves often.

The 2014 letter, then, was based on dubious claims about the effects of school discipline and highly questionable assumptions about what is driving racial discipline disparities.

What is dubious about that assumption?»

My only complaint is the dubious and emotional assumption that any superior performance of dividend portfolios is mostly due to the magic of dividends.

It can be computed theoretically by assuming the historical means, variances, and co-variances can be projected into the future (along with several other assumptions, many of which are rather dubious).

In the field that most interests me, anthropology, where I have a fair amount of training and experience, I see dubious claims being made all the time, based on some combination of wishful thinking, unsubstantiated assumptions and confirmation bias, so I'm used to picking through such claims to separate the wheat from the chaff.

(And an assumption that a consensus on these subjects would motivate certain actions is itself dubious.)

(pauses)(M1): Our models have been classified as «complex» (M2): Make that «very» (M1 & M2): That are built upon assumptions by default are arbitrary; So we get a lot of flack about our «dubious» hypotheses, (thinks) That others take to then promote their cataclysmic prophesies.

You are making all kinds of theoretical assumptions about collective action that are empirically dubious and behaviorally outdated.

If you read what Girma says, then you ought to realize that the skeptical view of CAGW is based on observed data, NOT «dubious» assumptions.

Junk Science and other sources of this propaganda are starting their dubious calculations from the assumption that Kyoto ends in 2012 when round one is over.

I am saying that if the only quantitative model you have is wrong (or based on dubious or clearly counterfactual assumptions), then the fact that there are no adequate alternative quantitative models does not have any strong implications for guiding action.

One assumption has since been disproved, and the second is looking dubious.»

I am however — dubious of your numbers and you still don't give the method and assumptions.

And your examination of those interests involves a lot of assumptions and jumping to conclusions (not to mention improbable ideas about conspiracy and plots to achieve dubious ends).

In the same way, assumptions of dubious quality or certainty that presuppose AGW beyond the bounds of anything we have see historically are plugged into the models, and, shazam, the models say that there will be a lot of anthropogenic global warming.

Your concept of balance is still a poor assumption based on a narrow interpretation of observations, which, in turn, are based on another set of equally dubious interpretations of speculative reconstructions of data.

The assumptions begin as guesses of dubious quality and come out laundered at «settled science.»

It's not a courtroom drama, but it is a movie about faustian bargains exacted by Rumpelstiltskin, and the plot turns on cultural assumptions about the binding nature and literal enforcement of written contracts — even dubious contracts.