Sentences with phrase «more anecdotal evidence»

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.

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

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

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

«This paper doesn't look like it offers much more than anecdotal evidence that it works in human embryos, which we already knew,» he says.

Anecdotal evidence, however, suggests it may be far more pervasive; because the drug only remains in the athlete's system for a matter of hours, low doses are very difficult to detect.

While there arent double - blind studies proving the aphrodisiac properties of these foods, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence suggesting they really help, so why not work in one (or more) on your next date night.

Anecdotal evidence suggests women are more prone to multitasking.

This use is the most widely documented with anecdotal evidence, though again, more research is needed.

the overwhelming anecdotal evidence that suggests cannabidiol may help relieve chronic pain, poor sleep, out of balance hormones, depression, ADHD, and more... and what the science says too

Much of the evidence, especially relating to the cellulite benefit, is anecdotal and much more research would be needed before dermatologists would consider it a legitimate medical treatment.

Some scientific studies and anecdotal evidences from bodybuilders do suggest the role of growth hormone in muscle building while some studies emphasize more on the performance enhancing effects of hGH.

I'm very thankful, though, that the NF website provides reviews of peer - reviewed journal articles, which gives the WFPB diet so much more credence than anecdotal evidence.

For those reading who, while respecting anecdotal examples, are more keen on evidence - based data, I'd point you towards the renowned Gullet, et al study — A Biomechanical Comparison of Back and Front Squats in Healthy Training Individuals — which compared EMG activity between the two variations.

I say fad because I see it as nothing more than another coming and going of something that isn't backed up by either anecdotal evidence or scientific evidence in regards to building muscle mass.

To me, there appears to be enough research and anecdotal evidence to support using it to recover and grow at a more optimal rate.

Anecdotal evidence...» Does indeed point out the beta oxidation is done in this fashion with cooking, but more importantly the body finishes the complete oxidation process of the unsaturated fat.

The studies are starting to show it, and there's more and more personal anecdotal evidence of it.

I think there is some anecdotal evidence that suggests that when someone in a social group gets a divorce, many more follow; seeing someone else doing it seems to give one license to proceed themselves.

Furthermore, anecdotal evidence suggests that the men who use the site are much more serious about actually meeting someone.

And anecdotal evidence suggests that where no car parking on school sites is provided (except for disabled people and service access), staff and parents are more accepting of the need to reach the school gate by other means.

There is anecdotal evidence of teachers and school leaders moving towards more personalised, targeted and job - embedded professional learning (AITSL, 2014).

Still, more than 50 years after Sputnik — and despite boundless research and anecdotal evidence on the value of the arts as part of a child's comprehensive educational experience, not to mention art simply for art's sake — why is it still the first to go when budgets head south?

Wolters seems unable to assimilate any evidence that might suggest a more positive assessment, while grasping at whatever anecdotal evidence or source best substantiates his tale of woe.

So, there's a lot of anecdotal evidence in that our teachers now are really confident in being able to identify the student's next point of learning, their confidence in the content has improved, [and] the student perceptions around learning maths is more positive.

Although the project hasn't impacted directly on curriculum provision, there is anecdotal evidence that it has impacted on the pedagogy of the english and maths teachers who have had the chance to observe PE lessons more than they would have previously had.

Thinking more broadly, if desegregation and integration were really such a disaster in terms of American race relations, how is one to explain the plethora of statistical and anecdotal evidence suggesting a dramatic liberalization in racial attitudes during the past four decades?

In light of such anecdotal evidence, further research will be needed to learn more about the challenges that schools in choice programs face after a program is enacted.

Such programs, which can offer certification in three months to two years, are booming despite little more than anecdotal evidence of their success.

Yet nearly 10 years after the reforms, there is little more than anecdotal evidence — and no hard data — to show whether programs, and graduating teachers, are better than those who graduated before the reforms.