Sentences with phrase «on anecdote»

Most of those recommendations are based on anecdotes and should not be taken seriously.

As is often the case in education policy discussions, we have relied on anecdotes instead.

As it is, the book relies heavily on anecdotes, which isn't entirely a bad thing; nothing motivates a topic like a story.

Instead, the changes seem based primarily on anecdotes, prejudice, and staff preferences.

Without the raw data, we can only go on anecdotes and media reports.

That means that most of the benefits suggested about its role in weight loss are based on anecdotes and marketing claims.

When working by themselves, teachers tend to rely on anecdotes and intuition.

Based on anecdotes about Britain and his own travels, Hitchens extrapolates the premise that countries surrounded by oceans, mountains, or deserts «tend not to be partitioned or carted off into captivity» and that «[no] great civilization has grown and endured» without those assets.

In some ways, including the presence of Chevy Chase, this is better, as it's focused a bit more on anecdotes about the film rather than the on - set drama.

Atom is a new player and there's no way of knowing what their after - sales support is like — it's something reviewers can't test and we, like you, rely on anecdotes from others to judge that.

What Ehrenreich had to say was long on anecdote and short on analysis.

(CNN)-- Dorothy McAuliffe is standing by her man, Terry McAuliffe, after Republican critics have attacked the Virginia gubernatorial candidate for not being the best husband based on some anecdotes in his book.

That's a good link on that anecdote actually.

It's more of a glorified food product built on anecdotes than it is a supplement that'll help reduce joint pain.

Up until the past two decades, the use of CAM for eczema was based mostly on anecdotes.

Accordingly, while Nichols is joined by a knowledgeable, respectful Steven Soderbergh on an anecdote - filled commentary track recorded for this release (it's nigh indispensable, truth be told, especially for Nichols's reflections on out - of - touch producer / screenwriter Lehman), Wexler gets a second, instantly - classic yakker all to himself.

Embellishing on anecdotes from the making - of, Brooks talks about the project's origins, manipulating the mercurial Zero Mostel, and Renata Adler's NEW YORK TIMES pan.

From asides to an unseen editor and DP Michael Chapman, to the referral to pre-production notes on anecdotes he wants to capture on film, said deconstruction reaches its peak as Scorsese reveals as much about the rehearsed nature of storytelling as he does his magnetic raconteur, and by extension the very notion of documentary truth.

The author does not dwell on the anecdote, but it is a critical insight.

Graham's Erasmus weathervane, made for the cupola of the Whitechapel Gallery in London, shows the author, modeled by the artist, reading a book while riding a horse backwards (elaborating on the anecdote that Erasmus wrote The Praise of Folly on horseback).

Sadly Klein spends page after page on anecdotes and blather about everything but the point.

This is purely hypothetical, based on an anecdote told on a web design lecture a long time ago.

But these theories are based largely on anecdote and intuition.

Currently over one third of firms depend on purely anecdotal feedback to determine if a program generated an ROI, and at least 90 % of firms calculate their ROI with a strong emphasis on anecdotes rather than metrics.

Drawing on anecdotes that have emerged throughout the trial, the article offers an in - depth look at Apple's outrage and Samsung's response.

The Legislature is prone to acting on anecdotes and not science, and almost every time it does so the courts are called upon to intervene.

In making his case for the unprecedented debaucheries of the present generation, Douthat relies heavily on anecdotes and macro statistics.

That said, I think all of these ideas still have a lot of merit and indirect evidence, although they're still based more on anecdote and experience of well - trained bodybuilders and dieters and athletes than they are based on research.

In no way shape or form am I claiming that this survey is scientific or representative of the population but it is unquestionably the closest thing we have to Facebook advertising effectiveness because it does not rely on anecdote.

My theory (admittedly based on anecdotes) is that some voters may be getting tired of hearing how good the Liberals say they are — all those boasts about how feminist they are, their brave resistance to racism, about how good and decent they are.

this is a very unreliable story... for the first part it's based on anecdotes and very few statistics (that have no citations) second of all, the people who are the «recovering catholics» haven't truly understood the teachings of the Church....

«The training officers receive is not research based, but based on anecdotes and cues that we don't know to be reliable.

«Everybody's an expert on this issue, but we're relying on anecdotes,» says sociologist Michael Rocque of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

Most of the current debate, he adds, «is based not on data but on anecdotes, or in response to pleading by individual sectors.»

Groups like the Color of Water Project must rely on anecdotes and Freedom of Information Act requests to access data, which is still insufficient to fully illuminate the problem of water insecurity in a modern, wealthy city.

The problem with the bulletproof coffee movement is that all of the claims are based on anecdotes and what ifs.

Defenders of print books usually rely on anecdote or intuition — which can make it easy to dismiss them as Luddites or romantics.

«It appeared that in making their decision, AAHA relied on anecdote — stories of bad experiences when unqualified people like groomers performed NAD, for example - rather than giving weight to the clinical trial that showed that showed that NAD, when performed by highly trained professionals, is safe and effective.»

But smaller breeds have their problems as well, like the Bashkir Curly where many breeders continue to use and promote the use of hairless (extreme / baldy *) horses in breeding based on the anecdote that they are homozygous for the curly coat gene; these are horses who are defenseless to weather extremes (head & cold) and bugs (no manes, no tail hair, many times large swaths of their body hairless as well).

Objectively, not based on anecdote.

I don't want to rely on anecdotes, but when I visited Boulder in the 1990s in June, the tops of the mountains had so much snow it actually confused me (being from the East Coast); I couldn't believe there was snow in midsummer!

She highlights a few ridiculous - sounding projects from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), implicitly conflates those projects and the CDM with offsets generally, and then concludes, based on the anecdotes, that offsets are bad and they make cap - and - trade toothless.