Sentences with phrase «more anecdotes»

All I have seen thus far is just more anecdotes.

Super Crunchers is a more full version of James Montier's 2006 research report, Painting By Numbers: An Ode To Quant, providing several more anecdotes in support of Montier's thesis that simple statistical models outperform the best judgements of experts.

More anecdotes are on the Daily Routines website.

The July 2010 edition of Southern Living has an interesting essay on the festivities, with perhaps more anecdotes about the ever - elusive Lee than is typical in a magazine piece.

She's sure there are more anecdotes of people finding love and happiness on the site, but they just haven't come back to tell her so.

But those are more anecdotes than systematic data.»

I had no idea that excessively eating one food could give you a food allergy until I read Felicia's eloquent discussion of her avocado allergy (really, her entire journey of overhauling her diet is fascinating and worth a read) and in doing research since then, I've come across more and more anecdotes about similar occurrences.

More anecdote than data.

Not exact matches

Missing from Melania Trump's address were specific anecdotes about her relationship with the candidate, the kind that could display the personal, more human side of the presumptive Republican nominee, who has been criticized for his harsh rhetoric.

There's a famous anecdote about Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad's thrifty ways: apparently, he drove the same 1993 Volvo sedan for 20 years, finally giving it up not to buy something a little more flash with his billions, but simply because it was no longer road - worthy.

But sometimes anecdotes beat statistics for really bringing a truth home, and real - life examples can be more illuminating than published studies.

Guardian columnist Marina Hyde said the anecdote was more proof Jolie is «clearly bats — t» and one of many «Hollywood crazies» who hijack poverty for their own ends.

Garish ads starring Dr. Jonathan Zizmor offering acne anecdotes, laser peels and tattoo removal procedures will be no more.

If you tire looking at tables, and prefer more discursive arguments giving anecdotes rather than facts, this book is not for you.

His speech mixed anecdotes about his father's roots in the construction business with a call for less regulation and more school choice, plus a forceful attack on Hillary Clinton.

Like him or not, his fan base has largely come to feel more comfortable with their non belief due to his humorous anecdotes.

I hope that in his next book, Turner does a little more of this, for it transforms his funny, sometimes bizarre anecdotes into more relatable, human stories and makes the reader feel more like a participant and less like an observer.

I was trying to say that most uses of the term seem to be misapplied as an accusation against those who want more than anecdotes and feelings as justification for a belief.

The motion that analysis of a failure might very well elicit much more interest and commitment than an anecdote about success had seemingly occurred to no one.

Stories and anecdotes about travelling the world and enjoying European cuisine, buying organic, joining a CSA, or picking out fine wine for guests may make you feel like true hospitality and joyful and just eating are little more than dreams other people get to fulfill.

All the anecdotes told that evening by the pastors and consultants deal more or less openly with political power: its absence, acquisition, contention, transfer, or consequence.

This pastiche of contemporary anecdotes can be no more than suggestive.

Real investigative journalism requires more than just cherry - picking a couple of suggestive anecdotes, however.

In the other sermon, the narrator tells numerous anecdotes about himself; he becomes a much more intrusive object in his own narratives; and in these stories his authority is never challenged.

Have a wonderful holiday with lots of good food and we'll be back in the beginning of January with more recipes, videos, anecdotes, maybe some Bali photos and what not.

This year, in recognition of past America's Classics Award recipients, Rizzoli and the James Beard Foundation is publishing James Beard's All - American Eats: Recipes and Stories from Our Best - Loved Local Restaurants, a photo and anecdote - filled cookbook featuring more than 75 recipes from eateries across the country that have been honored with the America's Classics Award.

Instead, Adrian manages to put across his ideas and thought processes with incredible clarity, and seamlessly mixes the more technical stuff with plenty of amusing anecdotes; it's perhaps not surprising that such a creative person is able to express himself so effectively.

Accorsi's candor (reflecting on the Giants» loss to the Ravens in Super Bowl XXXV, he says, «I would love to criticize our offensive game plan, but I don't think we had one») and anecdotes from more than three decades in pro football keep the pages turning, but Callahan succeeds most by revealing the psychological tension within a struggling team.

A popular anecdote I've encountered describes the stark contrast between having a cold and suffering from depression: our peers tend to sympathize much more towards physical illness than mental.

In truth, nearly all of the anecdotes in the first edition of Weems» book about Washington were fabricated, but the biography was tremendously popular and subsequent editions included even more made - up tales.

As a last note, we would like to hear some (potentially funny) poop stories and we also welcome more serious anecdotes as well; so please share them!

This verges on the unethical when individuals are expected to part with money for a service or product that appears to have scientific support but when critically analysed offers no more evidence than opinions and anecdotes, which are notoriously unreliable and biased.

Your anecdote doesn't change the fact that a baby born at home in the US is statistically 18x more likely to require cooling therapy.

Rather than just underlining the importance of linguistic nuance, this anecdote brings to mind a vignette resembling Lewis» painting — only with more weaponry.

I never called it poor, I merely described as being more of an anecdote.

A quick anecdote; I lived and grew up on an undesirable council estate in NE England - the drug dealer on the corner claiming incapacity benefit rankled much more with my father than when the chap down the street had a lottery win.

I think your anecdotes are helpful in understanding the problem, but I think your conclusion is too strong without a much more thorough examination of large numbers of protests.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

The opportunity is there but the means by which the Lib Dems capitalise on that opportunity are far from clear — especially when an anecdote about a curious boy and a dead pig gets more coverage in a day than the Lib Dem conference does over a week (having said that, Lib Dem conference delegates did squeal with excitement when they read about it, including myself, when I sent some late night trolling texts to my former Tory SpAd colleagues).

Anecdotes, and even some preliminary tallies, suggest surges are becoming more frequent.

Engaging the audience is a challenge for any speaker, but non-native speakers may find this especially difficult, because making a joke or telling a personal anecdote — the usual techniques for making an early connection — are more difficult to pull off.

«This study of a single mass shooting and a single type of gun violence amounts to little more than a statistical anecdote,» wrote Gary Kleck, a criminologist at Florida State University in Tallahassee, to Science.

First, although there are many anecdotes from smokers who claim that e-cigarettes — properly known as electronic nicotine delivery systems — have helped them quit, so far no one has been able to show that they are more effective than nicotine replacement therapy, itself not very effective as a quitting aid.

Thus, despite the author's penchant for overstatement and for the substitution of anecdotes for data and colorful phrases for thoughtful assessments, she does lay bare actual cases where highly respected universities and their faculties have behaved hypocritically and abandoned important academic norms in the service of accumulating more resources.

It's an oft - repeated anecdote of ocean researchers that we know more about the moon than about the bottom of our own oceans.

Against this background of mixed experimental results, however, there are countless anecdotes suggesting that a lot more is going on.

There are many more cases; in addition to those on my «Results» page, many anecdotes can be found on PaleoHacks and in my comment thread.

I have not done a scientific study on myself but the anecdote is that i feel much sharper mentally and have more energy since i have gone to the once per week 36 hr fast and once per week 24 hr fast.

Promoting anecdotes to prove your point is simply irresponsible and even more so when the particular case chosen is so inconsistent with what normally happens.

The more I learn about the inner lives of non-human animals (from both anecdotes and scientific evidence), the more I feel awe and respect for them — and an obligation to treat them ethically.