Sentences with phrase «more spurious»

These licensing agreements usually come with gags, silencing the victims while the troll approaches their next target with more spurious claims.

This trend appears to be replicated in various countries worldwide, as more and more spurious and bizarre examples of behaviour are cited by parties seeking divorce:

Canadians Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris report from Bonn that the IPCC is now resorting to even more spurious «science» than ever in support of its wildly alarmist claims of climate catastrophe around the corner.

And that vision is merging with a broader, even more spurious claim that has become especially popular in the Trump era: the private sector, we are told, has now taken the lead on climate, and market forces will inevitably achieve the 100 - percent renewable dream and solve the climate crisis on their own.

The quality of the data set is important — some global compilations contain more spurious sampling noise than others.

I also heard claims which were more spurious, and had no merit.

Rumour, gossip and speculation continue to dominate the press this week and while we do try to steer clear of the more spurious links, we do bring you a fair percentage of the stories because the individual players concerned...

Not exact matches

The probability of a randomly selected mutation in a randomly selected gene having precisely that effect is quite low, so just as with the stones in the field, a positive finding is more likely than not to be spurious — unless the experiment is unbelievably successful at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Mild forms of deception or exploitation of the public are more common, as when spurious scientific claims are made for a product.

More specifically, as the above - mentioned case illustrates, from the Dalit communities» point of view the economic, social, cultural, and religious distance between Christian and non-Christian Dalits is exaggerated, if not altogether spurious.

Even if they turn out to be just the usual sort of spurious rumours that we will be seeing a lot more of in the coming months, the Arsenal boss still looks set to have a big problem with his star striker, all because of the strange decision to hold another Copa America tournament this summer, even though the last one was held less than a year ago, with Alexis scoring the winning penalty against Argentina to win it for the first time.

After offering the hand of truce, literally, before the game between Arsenal and Chelsea just over a week ago, Jose Mourinho took no time to aim a few more words of disrespect at his managerial rival Arsene Wenger, with the spurious claim that the Frenchman and Arsenal have some sort of special relationship with the FA and get everything going our way.

Contrary to what he says, I never made the spurious claim that STDs are more common in intact men.

Liam Burns, National Union of Students (NUS) president said: «Ministers» claims that their proposals will put power in the hands of students have been shown to be spurious and it is increasingly clear that the course they are pursuing will actually restrict access to university for disadvantaged students, entrench existing social divides, and cost far more than expected.

Gillibrand's campaign last week sent out a fundraising appeal asking to hit $ 155,000 so the commercial could air this month (it was something of a spurious claim that Gillibrand needed the money, considering she last reported more than $ 10 million in cash on hand).

It appears Bercow is now, more than ever, granting Labour spurious SO24 debates, Points of Order and even advising them on how to use arcane parliamentary procedures to whack the government, in an attempt to shore up the support he needs on the Labour benches.

In their place, voters will have to endure even more fatuous communications by politicians on social media, ever more empty of content and thought, ever more full of false friendship and spurious empathy.

These methods are able to extract the most relevant information from a variety of sources, as opposed to their more standard counterparts, which typically assume every data point is of interest, spurious or otherwise.

Bill Hare, who leads a group of top climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.»

Last year, the FDA promised to crack down more harshly on spurious clinics that blinded people with eye injections of stem cells derived from people's fat.

If the result is only observed for this extreme group the findings are more likely to be spurious.»

Despite worldwide reports on Friday (18 August) that the role of Harry Potter had been filled, it seems the news was nothing more than a spurious internet hoax that got out of control.

But if you plotted the health of the oceans versus how much effort he exerted each year getting people to love the resource you could have your spurious correlation to suggest he caused the problems — the more he popularized the oceans, the worse they got, but there's no relationship, only the proof that people can both love and destroy something at the same time.

The automatic adjustments used in global gridded data probably do a good job for what they were designed to do (remove spurious trends from global or hemispheric temperature series), but they should not be relied upon for more detailed local analysis, as Hansen et al. (1999) warned: «We recommend that the adjusted data be used with great caution, especially for local studies.»

Because 5 % (depending on the specific field's convention for Type I statisitcal errors) of rejections of null hypotheses will generally be unwarranted across all studies, the journals with the highest rejection rates are likely to be publishing spurious rejections of null hypotheses more frequently than journals that aren't above publishing results that confirm the work of others.

1) Statistics on tornadoes are unreliable and exhibit spurious upward trends that are known to correspond to more people being in more places to see them.

Even then, to be able to report that the hiatus / pause was a possible «artifact» (that is, spurious result) of data biases, Karl et al., had to apply a 0.10 significance level, rather than the more stringent 0.05 test.

The analysis has shown that this same modification produces a more focused spectral peak in the intraseasonal band where the MJO should reside, but also reduces spurious low - frequency variable outside the intraseasonal band that is not observed in nature.

vukcevic December 15, 2012 at 10:15 am «apparent correlation «between the CET and N. Atlantic geological records now made more sense... spurious correlations don't make anymore sense than «blind fate».

An even more worrisome result is that the adjustment procedure for one of the popular surface temperature datasets actually increases the temperature of the rural (i.e. best) stations to match and even exceed the more urbanized (i.e. poor) stations... the adjustment process took the spurious warming of the poorer stations and spread it throughout the entire set of stations and even magnified it.

But it isn't the comparison between legal and scientific processes that, ultimately, determines which is more inclined towards finding spurious attributions of causation....

The difference that drives the spurious analysis of «protest parties» is that the coalition between Labor and the Greens is less formal and more fractious than that between the Liberals and Nationals.

But more relevant for the current discussion is more direct evidence of spurious correlation.

years, after reading a book about the role of the sun in climate, including the usuals like temperature, precipitation, hurricanes,... But also non-usuals like earthquackes (clustering in the upgoing flank of the solar cycle, as is the case now) and even the number of wars (probably spurious, but continuous bad weather, as in our «summer» now, influences one's mood, thus more fights, etc.).

What's more, NASA GISS takes explicit steps in their analysis to remove any such spurious signal by normalizing urban station data trends to the surrounding rural stations.

Zou et al also appears to be more consistent with less spurious effects - very promising.

For example, there's lots and lots of holes in the latter (post 1990) Kathmandu record, which in this case happens to give it a spurious uptrend, as the missing data is more in the winter than the summer...

However, as the number of datapoints necessary to get say a monthly average decreases, the less accurate your results will be, and the more likely that they contain a spurious trend.

The bottom line is we are all very much aware of spurious correlation and have been for 100 years or more.

The resulting spurious post-war drop in temperatures is one of the reasons that climate models have difficulty in reproducing temperatures going back more than 50 or 60 years.

Stirling said she would need to review the document, which she believes was filed by a party other than Peabody, and said the filing could be a «spurious attempt» to connect the Friends of Science to the coal company: «Until I review the full document and check the source I can't say much more.»

A more convincing example of spurious regression in «peer reviewed» literature will be hard to find.»

My personal pet peeve in the climate debate is how much time is wasted on arguments that are largely spurious, while more substantive and interesting subjects receive short shrift.

It is therefore nothing more than a statistical fit, and a spurious one at that.

The concept of «standard of living» rarely enters the environmental debate except as frankly rather spurious claims about how much better our lives would be if we had greater access to more green space.

More importantly, the removal of dropped stations do not cause a spurious warming trend.

DeMott and Randall (2004) found more mixed results, although their data may have been contaminated by spurious adjustments (Durre et al., 2002).

If, say, the proxy values are roughly flat, and if the Betas sum to even slightly more than one, don't we expect some spurious upward trend?

These show that RSS diverges from these and from UAH, showing more warming than the other datasets between 1990 and 2002 — a key period with two older MSU sensors both of which showed signs of spurious warming not yet addressed by RSS.

With respect to (3), I would not personally use the term «faux calibration» — I think I would tend to refer to «spurious correlation» or «nonsense correlation», two terms which have been discussed on this site since the beginning of the blog, and that has been discussed in the statistical literature for more than 80 years.