Sentences with phrase «of anecdotal»

Just like you, I'm wary of any anecdotal evidence and never spin a fact out of the experience of one person, so it gives me great relief that others have experienced the same thing.

One of the best educational tools for any Realty Advisor is the TV program Brain Games as it shows how many of the anecdotal understandings they have come to believe during the course of working with 100's of Buyers personally are in fact proven to be true.

Instead, he took what I would consider an intellectually lazy approach of proposing a «new syndrome» consisting of a set of anecdotal clinical features.

However, Gardner too quickly abandoned established psychological principles and constructs in proposing a new «syndrome» that was supposedly identifiable by a set of anecdotal clinical signs.

Instead, Gardner adopted what I consider to be an intellectually lazy approach of proposing a «new syndrome» without sufficient analysis, and then a proposed set of anecdotal diagnostic features that are inadequate to the task.

Research has indicated that antidepressants are currently prescribed primarily on the basis of anecdotal evidence shared between patient and doctor.

In the article, Rosen writes that while the NCLC report «suggests inaccurate criminal background checks are widespread,» the report only «cites a handful of anecdotal stories and some court cases where an inaccurate background check had grave consequences on a consumer's ability to get a job out of the millions of background checks conducted yearly.»

In the article, Rosen — Founder and CEO of background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR)-- writes that while the NCLC report suggested «inaccurate criminal background checks are widespread,» the report only cited «a handful of anecdotal stories and some court cases where an inaccurate background check had grave consequences on a consumer's ability to get a job out of the millions of background checks conducted yearly.»

While the NCLC report suggests inaccurate criminal background checks are widespread, the report only cites a handful of anecdotal stories and some court cases where an inaccurate background check had grave consequences on a consumer's ability to get a job out of the millions of background checks conducted yearly.

Okay, so maybe not that last piece of sage advice, but when it comes to interviewing and appearance, there's plenty of anecdotal wisdom that says your looks definitely matter in scoring that big career move.

An article from Digg from October 30, 2017 lists several examples of the anecdotal evidence, including a video of a couple tricking the Facebook app into displaying ads for catfood by discussing — in the presence of their phones — their need to buy cat food.

We have plenty of anecdotal support in «rocket ships» such as Facebook, Slack and Uber, companies that rocketed past multi-million dollar revenue thresholds in months.

A broad use of anecdotal evidence will likely produce particularly circumspect results in the form of both over - and understated returns.

It seemed to me on my bit of anecdotal evidence that law firms were specifically targeted.

This is becoming clearer to potential law firm partners every day, and there's plenty of anecdotal evidence that fewer associates are interested in becoming partners at law firms than in the past.

But every one of those anecdotal impressions and bits of conventional wisdom can be approached from a data - driven perspective, quantified and proven (or disproven).

I do not believe some of the anecdotal examples always mentioned, of biased Romanian and Bulgarian courts or biased Mississippi courts in the US.

One study and a pile of anecdotal evidence has shown that perhaps the decision to remove fluoride in 2011 wasn't such a great idea.

This gives some statistical basis to all of the anecdotal no trend situations.

Moving beyond the realm of your anecdotal evidence gathered from your personal circle, have you seen the evidence that Dan has collected regarding the belief of «skeptic» in the general public on that issue?

Faced with the Omerta in the media and the social sciences with respect to CAGW, I feel an exchange of anecdotal evidence of the kind started by Robin Guenier might be interesting.

However, given that the CAGW position doesn't rest on specific numbers, but is instead an unorganized collection of anecdotal evidence, coupled with heavily - tweaked computer models, unfounded assumptions about positive feedbacks, and a healthy imagination about possible future disasters, a lower warming number for the 20th century will simply be brushed over with claims about aerosols being stronger than previously thought, more warming still waiting in the «pipeline» or similar ad hoc «explanations» that keep the overall story alive.

As a scientist and life - long liberal Democrat, I find the constant regurgitation of the anecdotal, fear mongering clap - trap about human - caused global warming (the Levi, Borgerson article of 9/24/08) to be a disservice to science, to your readers, and to the quality of the political dialogue leading up to the election.

However, many of your anecdotal examples, although authentic, are not suitable evidence for suggesting that any climatic abnormality had occurred.

In my reflecting upon your report of anecdotal episodes by some climate scientists «on the side» comments in support of your critiques, I recall and old adage:

There's now a small amount of anecdotal evidence that buying... read more December 5, 2014 by Stephen Edelstein

We understand from the person who nominated you for the «bare faced cheek» award that you, in his phrase, «nearly blew a gasket» when the informant - whose privacy must be respected - provided a great deal of anecdotal and circumstantial evidence brilliantly (in the words of our nominator) tied into relevant scientific references, for an article carried here in December 2011;

The instrumental records have their problems but they are not comparable to the problems of anecdotal data.

Possum migration is an example of anecdotal evidence, just as I presented.

While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence about which products and sectors are the most pollution - intensive, anecdotes do not add up to a full picture.

Watts responds with another photo and single piece of anecdotal evidence.

Reams of anecdotal evidence show events have outstripped any controlled experiment or projection.

As a scientist, I am reluctant to show these sorts of anecdotal events.

But a couple of anecdotal observations seem in order.

Informing his work are views of the city and the people that inhabit the spaces around him, as does a fictional world that exists beyond the present - a reality that is free from the limitations of anecdotal recordings of experience.

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that far - flung parts of the world are becoming more superficially similar as commerce and tourism have homogenized localities around the globe.

Surrounded by his drying canvases, he would ask a young nude female model to remain with him in the studio, not necessarily to paint her in a particular pose as Matisse or Bonnard might have done (he was wary of the anecdotal side of a pose and tried to avoid it as much as he could), but for a sheer physical presence next to him while he was painting, and for its influence on his perception of his subject.

It is by ad - hoc network constellation, not by simple formality, that I arrived at the Centre D'Art Contemporain for Feinstein's show, certainly feeling less than the sum of my anecdotal adventures and at the mercy of my carbonated mineral water.

Those who observe the industry closely have seen plenty of anecdotal evidence that things have been tough for these pet retailers.

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence of cats being «harmed» by essential oils, as well as many veterinarians who use essential oils safely in their holistic practice.

About half of The Domestic Cat: Bird Killer, Mouser & Destroyer of Wild Life consisted of anecdotal testimony from more than 200 individual correspondents that cats kill birds.

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence from allergy sufferers that they have managed to find doggy companions who don't trigger their allergies.

If you look elsewhere online you will see that there is an awful lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest that the behaviors of each sex in dog breeds can vary

«After years of anecdotal evidence pointing to its effectiveness, we are hoping to examine in a rigorous manner the scientific underpinning of the benefits of animal - assisted therapy on children with cancer.»

It has a ton of anecdotal success stories and is also recommended by many veterinarians and dog training professionals.

There are a number of anecdotal reports online of flea collars causing seizures in dogs.

Use of anecdotal experience is not a way to form a valid scientific opinion.

Even without the studies, there's lots of anecdotal evidence showing that it can't all be how a dog is raised.

While there is little in the way of formal research when it comes to this issue, there is a huge amount of anecdotal evidence that sodium bentonite litter can be deadly when ingested.

There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that dogs do not do well on tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, and eggplant - the nightshade family.