Sentences with phrase «of unreliable data»

Nonetheless, the hybrid project benefits actually negate the threat of unreliable data and inaccurate readings.

Massive over-interpretation of unreliable data = deeply unwise.

The implementation took two years longer than expected because of unreliable data in the system.

Not exact matches

That could be a painful realization, but it is far preferable to basing decisions of any value on unreliable, flawed data.

Chinese economic data is notoriously unreliable and Beijing has a nasty habit of trying to paper over weaknesses that might make the Communist Party look bad.

UC Browser is better aligned with the specific needs of consumers in emerging markets, who tend to be mobile - first and mobile - only, and rely on cheap devices with limited processing power, storage capacities, and unreliable or cost - prohibitive data networks.

Although as mentioned before the data is hopelessly lagged, completely untransparent and unreliable at the best of times, the anecdotal evidence is piling up.

Median family income has risen only about 0.5 percent per year - and as far as we can tell from somewhat unreliable data, just about all of that increase was due to wives working longer hours, with little or no gain in real wages.

They cite research showing the tests are unreliable indicators of what is happening in classrooms, particularly when based on just a year of data.

However, the small number of women and wide variation in duration means that these data are very unreliable.

The MANAstats registry contains high - quality data that uses the gold standard — the medical record — instead of birth certificate data, which research shows is unreliable for studying intended place of birth and newborn outcomes.

The Nigeria Labour Congress on Tuesday blamed state governments and employers for the ghost workers» syndrome in the country's public service, noting that once the computer system used to capture the bio-metric data of workers was compromised, the data collected became unreliable.

Web firms can't stop using fibres to coordinate their data centres, as alternative technologies such as microwave links are too expensive or unreliable, says Alan Mauldin of TeleGeography, a telecommunications research firm based in San Diego, California.

«The pervasiveness and egregious nature of the violative practices by your firm has led FDA to have significant concerns that the bioequivalence and bioavailability data generated at the Cetero Houston facility from April 1, 2005, to June 15, 2010... are unreliable.»

«This new ability to explore matter at atomic scale pressures, where extrapolations of earlier shock and static data become unreliable, provides new constraints for dense matter theories and planet evolution models,» said Rip Collins, another Lawrence Livermore physicist on the team.

Or so said the UN — but behind the UN's patina of certainty may lie outdated and unreliable census data.

Additionally, the data collected are often unreliable, frequently not derived through scientific methods, and do not compare well with those from other types of manufacturing processes or from processes at different locations.

Behind the UN's patina of certainty may lie outdated and unreliable census data.

And also, is most of the data backing global dimming turning out to be unreliable.

Models are unreliable» [Models] are full of fudge factors that are fitted to the existing climate, so the models more or less agree with the observed data.

To its credit, Duke University formally investigated the research staff employee, Erin Potts - Kant, suspected of producing fraudulent research results, and found that over a dozen research publications involving her with coauthors, including the Principal Investigator, Prof. William M. Foster (Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, at the Department of Medicine) were retracted or «corrected»; some published data was admitted to be unreliable.

He was accused of leaving out 16 countries data in that paper, but he gave good reason; the data was poor and unreliable.

Although either not relevant to the sodium consumption of human populations, unreliable, or insufficient for any definitive conclusions, these data were taken as the

On the third point, Hess explains that value - added measures of teacher effectiveness are too imprecise and unreliable when just a few years of data are used to judge individual teachers.

Government policy now requires schools to capture increasing volumes of data, but fulfilling this principle can be time - consuming and is further restricted by outdated software and unreliable IT infrastructures.

Understand that using the line of best fit to predict results outside the given data range is unreliable, as is using the line of best fit to predict results inside the data range if the correlation is weak.

The financial data that exists is (sic) unreliable, there has not been a clean audit since FY 2001 - 2002, there is no inventory of assets, the payroll system is in shambles, school buildings are in deplorable condition and, up to now, there has been little accountability.»

Critical data was backed up to unreliable tape media instead of to local or cloud - based disk storage.

North Carolina was among the states with the most positive principal assessments of state policy; Texas was average in 2005, with unreliable data in 2008.

Because of the variations within highly qualified teacher definitions and state licensure systems, the data is unreliable when it is compared across states.

In January, a Richmond, Virginia judge ruled in Virginia SGP's favor, despite the state's claims that Virginia school districts, despite the state's investments, had reportedly not been using the SGP data, «calling them flawed and unreliable measures of a teacher's effectiveness.»

«He is leaving us with a legacy of classroom overcrowding, communities fighting over co-located schools, kindergarten waiting lists, unreliable school grades based on bad data, substandard credit recovery programs and our children starved of art, music and science — all replaced with test prep,» said Leonie Haimson, the head of Class Size Matters, an advocacy group and a critic of Mr. Klein's.

Abrams says the consequences of these errors go beyond unreliable data.

The primary limitation on this study was the lack of student work data due to unreliable documentation methods of the student portfolios.

What makes Eden's results even less - reliable is the fact that he didn't just simply measure the raw results from the surveys over the five - year period (2011 - 2012 to 2015 - 2016) being measured, which is the most - reliable way of analyzing what is already unreliable data.

The SBAC tests are invalid and unreliable, as even the former Executive Director of SBAC asserted when speaking at the University of Connecticut on March 31, 2014, because there is no data to prove that success on SBAC tests merits «college and career readiness».

Two market participants told him their data feeds became unreliable at the height of the panic, which may have contributed to the unusual trades, he said.

All this produces unreliable data that gives a false sense of security at best.

If sound research and statistical data show that rates of injury and fatality by breed is incredibly unreliable, then why do communities continue to see Breed Discriminatory Legislation (BDL) or Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) as a solution or safety measure?

This data set was based mostly on unreliable media reports and its authors concluded that their research did not support the idea that one kind of dog was more likely to bite someone than another kind of dog.

The game can tolerate losing a considerable number of packets, so it can use an unreliable protocol and avoid the overhead associated with reliable protocols (overhead includes not just additional data but also delays observed by the application due to the lower level protocol correctly ordering packets due to packet loss or packet reordering in reliable protocols).

It is not exactly a reliable source of accurate data due to its methods, and it was often branded as «unreliable.»

At present some people seem to think that the number of stations with unreliable data is small and could not possibly impact the large data sets on which climate science is based.

She and Dr. Pielke both say that the unreliable data and a confounding mix of simultaneous socioeconomic, climatic and other trends make it nearly impossible to isolate any contribution from human - induced climate change to mortality from disasters and related threats to human communities.

These claims were subsequently disputed in an article in Eos (Rahmstorf et al, 2004) by an international team of scientists and geologists (including some of us here at RealClimate), who suggested that Shaviv and Veizer's analyses were based on unreliable and poorly replicated estimates, selective adjustments of the data (shifting the data, in one case by 40 million years) and drew untenable conclusions, particularly with regard to the influence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations on recent warming (see for example the exchange between the two sets of authors).

As scientists looked for ways to get around the problem, critics of modern climate science dismissed the tree ring data as unreliable and accused scientists of cooking up tricks to support the theory of global warming.

But the more basic point here is that the Cowtan paper does not use the satellite time trend (which is somewhat unreliable — remember the long history of corrections, and the difference in trends between the UAH and RSS products), it only uses the satellite spatial pattern to fill the data holes.

If Briffa's high latitude tree ring data started to diverge after 1960, does it not imply that a herethereto unknown or understated variant (s) has been left out of the proxy reconstruction (assuming that there was no error involved in data collection) and if so until this variant (s) has been dealt with the whole set of proxy would be rendered unreliable if not meaningless.

With the knowledge of today, we know that data from Giessen, Poona, Vienna,... are unreliable indicators for background CO2 levels and all show a (variable!)

Ernst simply takes the averages, modern science simply (and rightfully) ignores the Bern data as completely unreliable, as these are the equivalent of measuring temperature on an asphalted parking lot...