Sentences with phrase «much weaker evidence»

P - values are a notoriously difficult concept to grasp and are often misinterpreted, but the original paper's message was clear: A P - value, or α, below 0.05 is much weaker evidence that the results aren't wrong than people think; lowering it makes studies stronger.

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Too many investors saw something else: a return to the bad old days of aggressive currency manipulation, evidence that the Chinese economy was much weaker than thought, or both.

Evidence for an impending civilisational collapse is much weaker, but is already being politicised in a similar way.

I came to realize that much of what we are taught about dieting and nutrition is based on weak or absent evidence.

This employment gap is consistent with other data [xx] showing that the Great Recession hit black college graduates much harder than white college graduates, as well as with evidence [xxi] that employers are more likely to discriminate against minorities in weak labor markets.

While these are also noted as statistically significant, using the table below one can determine that statistical significance does not necessarily mean that such «very weak» to «weak» correlations are of much practical significance, especially if and when high - stakes decisions about teachers and their effects are to be attached to such evidence.

Amazon recently added the UK and Germany to Kindle Unlimited, which started off as US - only, but anecdotal evidence suggests that early response from both these countries has been much weaker than in the US.

It's possible, but I do feel that from a narrative perspective this would be the weakest of the theories I'm presenting here, and doesn't have much evidence to back it up.

As for the sun itself getting «hotter» suddenly, there's is no much evidence it has been all that much stronger, or weaker, in the past.

While I also agree that the actual evidence of either of these issues is MUCH weaker than most people believe, I do not think that attribution is really the key issue at all.

We will see that over the last several years, while correlations between CO2 and temperature exist in the data, much of the historical circumstantial evidence for AGW theory has gotten weaker, and we will cover «global dimming» and see if this effect makes the case for AGW stronger.

The evidence for a natural source of the CO2 increase is much weaker than that.

With the stronger evidence per observation, you can get to 95 % in five steps even starting from the much weaker prior.

To date, only weak evidence relates job satisfaction to work productivity while much stronger evidence shows a positive correlation between psychological well - being and work performance.

«Even with the weak initial estimates of first - quarter GDP — which was also influenced by the extreme winter in much of the country — the overwhelming evidence of strengthening job gains, lower unemployment, and improved consumer confidence doesn't sync with an annualized household formation rate of just 69,000 in the first quarter of this year,» Muoio points out.