Sentences with phrase «not spurious»

To ensure that the mediating relationship was not spurious due to other unrelated variables in the model (anxiety and HbA1C), a subsequent model only including the mediation model (gender, externalizing, and adherence) was run.

Therefore the correlation I observe in real data is probably not spurious.

Leif Svalgaard (15:52:01): «Second, UV and not energetic particles [that do not penetrate lower than 90 km] controls ozone, and the «relationship» with geomagnetic indices is tenuous [no sign of it in the northern hemisphere — I know you did say the «southern», but if it is not spurious it should have been in both] and could be because solar activity and geomagnetic activity happened to be correlated.»

Although the statistical significance of the caudate cluster was modest in each dog individually (p < 0.01 in Callie, and p < 0.001 in McKenzie), the observation of the same location in the same condition in both dogs, and in the hypothesized region, strongly suggests that these were not spurious findings.

This is not a spurious concern either.

But as it turns out, it's not a spurious claim.

I wish I could read the paper and dive deeper and know for sure, but when you take an overall condition with no association with procedure X, and then break that condition down into smaller bits and find a bit that does have an association with procedure X, I want to take a closer look at the numbers to make sure it's real and not spurious.

The point isn't the spurious claim that «Blair's a Conservative» (let alone a Tory).

Not exact matches

Forbes insists it was not racist for Trump to have tried to delegitimize the first black president of America with spurious claims of his birthplace.

It was not an entirely spurious claim: Classified documents released by Edward J. Snowden showed a complex effort by the National Security Agency to get into the systems of a Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, though the United States maintained that the effort was for national security surveillance, not for the theft of intellectual property.

Investors are not supposed to have daily time horizons, and three months is a spurious sample period for anyone with a three to five - year investment horizon.

[24] We can not fail to praise the commitment of international agencies and civil society organizations which draw public attention to these issues and offer critical cooperation, employing legitimate means of pressure, to ensure that each government carries out its proper and inalienable responsibility to preserve its country's environment and natural resources, without capitulating to spurious local or international interests.

Bullard sounded as if he would not be in favor of the Fed raising rates because of the inflation rate turning away from the spurious 2 percent mandate.

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.

Creationism / ID do not present any testable hypotheses, all they do is try to poke spurious holes in the theory of evolution (which itself has evolved and continues to evolve, as many good theories do).

All religious supernatural creation claims are not just speculative... they are spurious.

It is not merely that no one is saved; it is that hope is spurious and there was no chance of redemption in the first place.

They argue that there is a true faith that results in works, and a spurious or false faith that does not.

Williams, who would go on to write a book about witchcraft, always had a weakness for mumbo jumbo, and he appears to have belonged not only to this spurious Rosicrucian Order but also to the Order of the Golden Dawn.

And others, like me, will defend him against spurious attacks... even though David does not need us to defend him, nor has asked anyone to defend him.

I don't mind them using their freedom of speech to lobby others to adopt their view, but constantly proposing spurious legislation with absolutely nothing concrete to back it up should be view the same way frivolous lawsuits are and those who can not give any evidence to their claims should be penalized for wasting everyone else's time.

Not until we have been disabused of our spurious humanism, Percy believes, can an authentic humanity emerge.

John Donvan doesn't cite any study and it seems spurious at best without some kind of evidence.

In fact one of the main versus used to support the» 3 in 1» God, 1 John 5:7 is spurious — it does not appear in the majority of the older Bible manuscripts.

Several of them have pointed out that the tradition concerning the correspondence between King Abgar and Jesus is only apocryphal and hence spurious and that the king who became Christian in Edessa was not Abgar V but Abgar VIII (called the Great) who came to the throne in AD.

While Mormons represent only 2 % of the population, they represent a far higher percentage of the military (6 % was last number I saw), so implying that Mitt being a Mormon means he doesn't support the military is pretty spurious.

With the number of posts being deleted it would be a shame to just let the ignorant sycophants win, even when it is a childish game of «Hide» where reasonable people post their comments then cover their eyes and count to 100 while the Christards run around behind different names and make spurious claims, and when they can't back up their claims they resort to just hiding the comments they are unable to refute.

But it is also certain, that this recognition, because it is in a spurious eternity before the imagination, develops double - mindedness, if it is not slowly and honestly earned by the will's purity.

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 as responsible a black columnist as William Raspberry of the Washington Post has defended Farrakhan on the spurious grounds that he had some true things to say (as though Hitler did not).

If I understand him correctly, Ramsey takes intuition to be a form of immediate and indubitable knowledge which is not subject to revision or correction; if it is «self - authenticating», the problem of distinguishing genuine from spurious disclosures can never arise.

Not all of Stern's points are completely spurious.

It is certainly not self - evident that the additional value that would accrue to God by God's knowing that the creatures» fiduciary attitudes were authentic, rather than spurious, is sufficient to justify all that evils that would have been avoided had God been willing to forgo this additional value.

I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious.

The appearance of objectivity thus given is spurious, however, since the New Testament does not «stand» in such a manner.

Not only did defendant adopt the name and imitate the bottles and cartons in use by plaintiff, but at the very beginning, when he started the manufacture and sale of his sauce in competition with the long established business of plaintiff, he printed on his bottle labels a caution to use «only the genuine Evangeline,» thus apparently seeking to create the impression that such «Evangeline» Tabasco Sauce was an old and established brand, against spurious imitations of which the public should be warned.

The quandary for the manager should be who will be sold or loaned in this January's transfer window, while spurious links have been raised regarding Javier Hernandez to Real Madrid they can't be discounted as a possible destination for the Mexican.

«Clearly, this is a safe product, it is a lean product, it helps reduce obesity, and there is a spurious attack being levied against it by some groups who are against it... And you can suspect who they might be — people who don't like meat.»

One of the most egregious examples of formula - promotion through spurious science is the current dogma that HIV - positive mothers should not breastfeed.

The judgment does not mean that vaccines can be blamed for illness without scientific evidence, or that spurious cases can win when the scientific evidence is against them, says Stein.

In the absence of a campaign message, the NPP has resorted to making unfounded and spurious corruption allegations against President Mahama and his appointees a strategy many say would not yield them the desired result of coming back to power

It does not matter how many times one adduces cogent and credible facts and evidence to disprove the spurious personal attacks and character, honour and integrity assassinations.

According to the statement, «The transactions which gave rise to the false reports and the spurious claims from which they have sprung have already been submitted to the Court's consideration and ordinarily should not be the subject of discourse or advertorials.»

«I've still not seen the report but believe there are an awful lot of spurious suppositions being written,» he added.

The motion says the move will «convey a spurious legitimacy to the BNP that it does not deserve and risks normalising this poisonous, abnormal political party».

«What I'm appalled about is that the ministry has already spent some # 85m of taxpayers» money, not on the Armed Forces or on new kit or equipment for the Armed Forces, but on London law firms who are bringing forward these fairly spurious cases.

The spurious arguments in favour of this measure simply don't stand up to scrutiny.»

«Attending an international women function with the Governors» wives couldn't have been linked to the bogus allegation of corruption made by Sahara Reporters» spurious headline earlier on, as these are approved trips.

Chris added, «many MEPs are willing to help on this issue but it's complicated so if we want them to lobby on motorcycling's behalf, we need to get our act together and not muddy the water with spurious claims.»

I will fight this spurious claim and do not rule out taking legal action.