The APA's study comes in the wake of research led by psychologist Christopher Ferguson in November 2014, who found no link between gaming a violent behaviour and instead questioned
the methodology of previous studies.
If it is truly independent, it will also validate
the methodology of the previous study to some extent (i.e. it will show that any errors do not materially change the conclusions).
Not exact matches
They could be explained, said lead author, John O'Kane, MD,
of the University
of Washington Sports Medicine Clinic, by differences in
methodology (prospective data collection with weekly interviews in the current
study versus data reported by athletic trainers in the other
studies), and under - reporting in
previous studies that captured concussions only in athletes seeking medical attention.
«
Methodology and results from this
study build on
previous research and imply that if sexual functioning is related to circumcision status, this relationship is not likely the result
of decreased penile sensitivity stemming from neonatal circumcision,» observed Ms. Bossio.
Moreover, the
methodology of our
study differs from
previous investigations in three other distinct ways.
When differences in scaling between
previous studies are accounted for, the various current and
previous estimates
of NH mean surface temperature are largely consistent within uncertainties, despite the differences in
methodology and mix
of proxy data back to approximately A.D. 1000... Conclusions are less definitive for the SH and globe, which we attribute to larger uncertainties arising from the sparser available proxy data in the SH.
While this
study is undoubtedly an important contribution to the literature, introducing a potentially useful
methodology for refining estimates
of past tropical cyclone activity in all the major basins, it is hardly the last word (see e.g. the discussion thread in our
previous article on the paper).
Based on a
methodology developed in a
previous study that estimated wood supply on four National Forests in northern Arizona [33], we subtracted from the total area
of ponderosa pine in the watersheds — 0.68 million ha (1.68 million acres)-- those areas that are typically excluded from mechanical thinning projects due to steepness, restrictions in land management,
previous treatments, or considerations
of soil, habitat, or wildlife conditions (Table 1).
This is not the only way
of doing this parlor trick — Mannian principal components is a fancy way
of performing the parlor trick
of selecting HS - series from a universe
of noise, but you can do this the old - fashioned way: just pick them (a
methodology adopted in subsequent and
previous studies.)
Watts et al 2012 has employed a new
methodology for station siting, pioneered by Michel Leroy
of METEOFrance in 2010, in the paper Leroy 2010, and endorsed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for Instruments and Methods
of Observation (CIMO - XV, 2010) Fifteenth session, in September 2010 as a WMO - ISO standard, making it suitable for reevaluating
previous studies on the issue
of station siting.
These three
studies, even if considered different aspects
of the attachment system, they used a novel
methodology: the simulated VR experience, showing significant results consistent with the
previous studies that used traditional methods
of assessing (Ainsworth, 1978; Mikulincer and Shaver, 2005).