The data sets aren't huge — 232 participants in October before the election and 152 after, with a total of 772 negotiations recorded — and there may be some other difference that explains the later group's more aggressive behavior, though Low tried to control for factors, like party affiliation, that might
offer alternate explanations for the shift.
The research team believes their findings could even
offer an alternate explanation for the Great Oxygenation Event that changed Earth's atmosphere between 2 and 2.5 billion years ago.
William Maestri,
offers an alternate explanation: «We believe that schools are magnets of hope in the midst of despair, and by reopening them, you ensure that people will come back.»
I can
offer an alternate explanation but that does not mean it will have any relevance at all.
Not exact matches
Hopkins analyzed data from 133 elections between 1989 and 2006, compared the results of those elections to the corresponding pre-election poll numbers, and considered some of the
alternate explanations which have been
offered for any discrepancies therein.
We need a new
explanation of why stocks
offer higher returns than
alternate asset classes.
-- They primarily focus on sowing doubt and confusion over the science they deny, rather than
offering a coherent
alternate theory or
explanation.
No appreciable snark, lots of
alternate explanations offered and explained in detail (some frankly over my head), and enormous mutual tolerance for differing perspectives and preferred methodologies.