Sentences with phrase «more anecdotal»

I've heard stories of strongarm tactics to acquire new homes, too but they are more anecdotal and I haven't seen articles about it.

So our understanding of the issue is more anecdotal.»

The data in Figure VI clearly indicate that the measurements of ROI discussed earlier were largely determined by a more anecdotal approach (e.g. asking the lawyers whether or not they «liked it» or «found it helpful»).

Another reason, and this is more anecdotal based on people at my church I've spoken to, is I think there's a distrust of scientists in general.

So there you have it - more anecdotal evidence that the PlayStation 3 is a little slow to sell through when it gets to stores - IMHO at least partially because of the marginally eye - watering $ 599 price for the 60gb model that most retail stores are selling.

More anecdotal PS4 sales evidence: This past week I checked a few stores in the area looking for Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes.

And thanks for sharing more anecdotal good news for this thread.

The prediction of an 80 percent graduation rate made by the district was not official, but more anecdotal and based on the high number of students enrolled in credit recovery programs to complete their A through G courses.

At this point, the evidence for the early gap is more anecdotal than quantitative.

The Writers» Room winds up more anecdotal than explanatory.

Again, let me emphasize, many of the health benefits of castor oil are more anecdotal than scientific, and side effects have been reported.

This post is more anecdotal and journal - like.

This is much more anecdotal.

Now, we can combine official government data sources with the more anecdotal evidence from the cocktail party above (but please please verify before posting!)

There's lots of research out there, and even more anecdotal evidence that suggests that our babies don't just have needs, but feelings they need to express too.

Alan Greenspan was importantly right when he ignored models and maintained easy policy in the mid 1990s because of other more anecdotal evidence that convinced him that productivity growth had accelerated.

Not exact matches

These are anecdotal examples, but more and more of them are popping up every day.

His evidence is largely anecdotal, but compelling: «When even one more person is added to the mix, the situation becomes more stable, but this stability may stifle creativity, as roles and power positions harden,» he writes.

This includes millennials, which anecdotal evidence suggests are gravitating more to «experiences» instead of goods or services.

But she said based on anecdotal evidence, it doesn't seem like perpetrators of mass violence are more likely to have mental health problems than anyone else.

Anecdotal reports suggest that some illegal fentanyl is so strong — as much as 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine — that currently available dosages of the overdose antidote naloxone aren't able to revive some victims.

These three cases are anecdotal proof that by taking a break and being active away from your desk, you're actually helping yourself to be more productive.

Anecdotal evidence suggests it's possible to earn 100,000 organic visitors a month or more — but what can you reasonably expect?

Although there are a few anecdotal examples of companies raising wages — Walmart and TJX being two of the more recent — wages are not responding as expected to the acceleration in job growth (although there are indications that overall compensation, including benefits, is rising much faster).

Echoing decades of anecdotal evidence, a new study of about 2,000 cases of exoneration found that black people are extremely more likely to be wrongfully committed of a crime.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

That most religions» «bibles» have similar anecdotal stories in them to try to teach lessons and that some have been twisted in more modern translations to say things they didn't say before?

Anecdotal evidence suggests, further, that people today are more reluctant to commit themselves permanently to any form of association — be it a club, society, political party, church or marriage partner.

Finally, most troops are sponsored by churches, and anecdotal evidence suggests that most of them are more serious about religious observance than is the by «the «way nature piety of «Troop 49.»

Besides Dudley's anecdotal poking at them in the podcast, there were some players who turned down more money from them to go elsewhere this off - season (Matthews and Ellis come to mind).

It's one of my favorite quotes from one of football's more quotable coaches (ULM's Todd Berry), and while it is purely anecdotal, it's also catchy.

Of my anecdotal Knicks game watching, seems like he would get at least 1 inbounds steal per game, and disrupt a few more.

Unfortunately there is no national database recording fat guy touchdowns but based on anecdotal evidence I can tell you they happen during #MACtion more than any other time or place.

What you are describing in terms of anecdotal stories of «more women are breadwinners» is true, but anecdotal.

Not surprisingly, the media feeding frenzy has resulted, anecdotal evidence suggests, in a sharp drop in youth football registrations for this fall's season, with parents fearful that playing football will almost inevitably expose their kid to an unreasonable risk of injury (which, of course, is patently untrue; more than 7 million kids in the U.S. currently play football, very few of whom, statistically speaking and despite a few well - publicized cases - are likely to end up committing suicide because of the hits they sustained playing the sport, and millions upon countless millions who have played football over the past century without apparent ill effect).

But there's a lot of anecdotal evidence to back claims that a corset can help you bounce back more quickly after pregnancy.

Any evidence that cutting these ties actually helps breastfeeding is anecdotal and more research is needed.

Research and and anecdotal experience show that formula - fed babies are much more likely to be ill and require medical care more often than their breastfeeding counterparts.

While there is anecdotal evidence that the drugs appear to help some women make more milk, a 2011 report released by the American Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine found no conclusive evidence of «correlation between baseline prolactin levels and rates or milk synthesis or measured volumes of milk production.»

In addition to social science research, much anecdotal evidence shows that youth in foster care benefit from contact with their fathers; youth often reveal that they value their relationship with their fathers, or wish they had more opportunities to get to know their fathers.

More recently there has been a movement to create standards around eating placenta, an ancient custom back in favor because anecdotal evidence suggests it can improve postpartum mood and breast - milk production.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that babies who have been spoon - fed have more problems with gagging and «choking» when they start to handle food... than those who have been allowed to experiment much earlier.

The IND will also work much more closely with the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca)- anecdotal evidence suggests about three - quarters of illegal entrants are brought to the UK through criminal gangs.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that academic women experience more health problems than men.

So far, data on the success of the U.C.L.A. partnership are only anecdotal, but Feinberg and his colleagues are so satisfied with the results that they're expanding the program into three more clinics.

«But there is anecdotal evidence that we're seeing lightning strikes in places where people are not expecting it, which makes it more deadly.»

These statewide findings counter prior anecdotal perceptions that access to primary care worsened in Massachusetts after more residents gained insurance coverage.

After more than 3 decades of trying to increase the number of minority biomedical researchers, officials at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have a raft of anecdotal evidence that the programs are working.

A new study claims to offer mathematical backing for an anecdotal observation of historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson, who observed that decision making breaks down in committees of 20 or more people.

But he does suggest that the scientists» ability to understand climate change — whose impact is far more pronounced in the Arctic — is hampered by their tendency to sneer at anecdotal evidence.