Sentences with phrase «number of alternative explanations»

We examined the robustness of the interaction effect, tested a number of alternative explanations, and investigated possible underlying mechanisms.

Quoting the last:» the «slowdown» or «hiatus» has also had a number of alternative explanations.

The burden rests with critics to demonstrate that those higher grades are undeserved, and one can cite any number of alternative explanations.

Our results come from a non-experimental design, so a number of alternative explanations for our findings remain plausible.

Next, the researchers investigated a number of alternative explanations.

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The facts of schizophrenia are so peculiar, in fact, that they have led Torrey and a growing number of other scientists to abandon the traditional explanations of the disease and embrace a startling alternative.

[F] or each accepted explanation of a phenomenon, there is always an infinite number of possible and more complex alternatives, because one can always burden failing explanations with ad hoc hypotheses to prevent them from being falsified...

But once again Occam's Razor presents a barrier: ``... [F] or each accepted explanation of a phenomenon, there is always an infinite number of possible and more complex alternatives, because one can always burden failing explanations with ad hoc hypotheses to prevent them from being falsified... Put another way, any new, and even more complex, theory can still possibly be true.

As an alternative, you can describe your achievements exclusively with words like increased, created, and improved, with a detailed explanation of what you did precisely, including numbers at any time possible.