Sentences with phrase «on flawed analysis»

The Trump administration's proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan is based on flawed analysis that understates the plan's benefits, part of this administration's unfortunate pattern of dismantling sensible policies and rejecting the underlying science of climate change.
Concerned scientists, nutrition researchers and health professionals are now speaking out on the flawed analysis, the ignored research, and the weak foundation of the UDSA Guidelines and Food Pyramid.
«Decision to rescind Waters of the United States rule (WOTUS) based on flawed analysis

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A parade of reports and experts explained away high house prices and debt levels with many of the same arguments we hear today in Canada — yes, prices are way up compared to rents, but the analysis is built on flawed data; debt levels are high, but so are house prices, which minimizes the risk; America's demographics support the boom; and then the classic: There'll be a soft landing.
Americans for Annuity Protection has engaged in active outreach to leaders of influence to establish the argument that the DOL's fiduciary rule should be returned because of the analysis performed by the department is flawed, inconclusive and arbitrary; it is not compatible with the Uniform Security Law or established insurance law, and the law has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standard.
Craig runs one of the most highly respected and well known blogs in the industry and has been covering the precious metals for close to a decade now and puts out some of the best analysis on banking schemes, the flaws of Keynesian economics and evidence of manipulation in the gold and silver markets.
Ron and Shamir seem to have used flow analysis of the Bitcoin blockchain to reach these conclusions, as they did in their first paper on the subject, however without doing the required research into the actual identities of the Bitcoin address owners, using flow analysis among them to determine relationships between them is fundamentally flawed.
This method has its flaws, because it relies on the subjective analysis of testers, who may have varying levels of sensitivity to heat.
The only flaw is that this analysis is done in isolation, but an event that would lead to Chinese divestment of U.S. Treasuries would only happen in a geopolitical environment in which the events causing the divestment would have confounding effects including a probable stock market crash, increased militarization, etc. which might lead to a flight to safety that could mitigate this effect on interest rates, or exacerbate the effect.
Last week, the Monkey Cage published a post by Alexander Motyl, a Ukrainian specialist at Rutgers - Newark, on the Five fatal flaws in realist analysis of Russia and Ukraine.
Some social scientists say the analysis is fundamentally flawed and reflects poorly on an organization that champions scientific rigor.
Your readers may want to know that the interpretation and analysis provided by geologist Tom Rockwell, and on which the story is based, is in our view both flawed and highly editorialised.
Collar says the XENON researchers are relying on shoddy science and flawed analysis to debunk DAMA's claim.
Now a study by MIT linguistics professors and a team from Carleton University, based on an experiment with children between the ages of 3 and 6, proposes a new explanation, with a twist: In examining this apparent flaw, the researchers conclude that children deploy a more sophisticated mode of logical analysis than many experts have previously realized.
Not only does the Grodsky team rely on inadequate data, but the analysis itself is flawed.
Coleman's analysis, while flawed, positively transformed education policy discussions so that today they focus on school outcomes rather than school inputs.
Leaving that aside and assuming that their analyses are superior to all others and free from major flaws, we still need prospective controlled studies of the interventions they champion, e.g., reducing undermatch, before it would be prudent to jump on a policy bandwagon.
For example, Wilson and Korn did a literature review (an analysis of what the research says about a specific topic) and discussed the many flaws in much of the research on attention span during lectures.
The flaw of selection on dependent variable analyses is so obvious that it is shocking that education policy debates continue to be shaped by them.
A new analysis from Fordham found that most state accountability systems maintain one of No Child Left Behind's fatal flaws — a primary focus on getting students to the «proficient» level of achievement.
So are some leading education traditionalists: Parents Across America co-founder) Leonie Haimson's Class Size Matters picked up $ 25,000 from the union last fiscal year, while Western Michigan's Gary Miron (whose rather flawed study on KIPP's charter schools earlier this year was the subject of Dropout Nation «s analysis) picked up $ 5,000.
A new analysis that I co-wrote found that most state accountability systems maintain one of No Child Left Behind's fatal flaws — a primary focus on getting students to the «proficient» level of achievement.
However, as pointed out by several other witnesses, since the key performance measure used by these entities is student performance on the STAAR test, which many consider a flawed measure, the resulting productivity / efficiency analysis would be flawed as well.
-- Pushing back on pre-K critics: Doggett criticized reports and analyses, including a recent piece from Russ Whitehurst of the Brookings Institution, for citing old examples and research rife with methodological flaws.
(For more on RESET Education, including its reliance on misleading statistics, propaganda and flawed pedagogy, read Teach for America alum Gary Rubinstein's analysis).
But they have expressed reservations about value - added analysis, saying it is unreliable because it depends on flawed standardized test results.
So... I'm describing this slide show to the other professional writers at lunch, and I (the mathematician's daughter who grew up on a steady diet of statistical analysis and probabilities [my father's two favorite subjects]-RRB- hear myself say, «Digital Book World asked this guy to examine the impact of ebook sales on hardcover sales, making the study flawed in the first place.»
I say flawed because while the most comprehensive analysis available, it covers a debatable portion of the market from 60 - 75 % depending on whose figures you accept.
Lenders on these loans lost 10 % on an annual basis, and while not positive, it's a far cry from the 54 % loss that Mr. Giemein flawed analysis leads the reader to believe.
Of course, the flaw in that analysis is that you ignored the fact that pre-tax money goes into the RRSP — in a fair comparison, you'd really start with $ 2152 in your RRSP, which would then experience the 200 % growth, and even after taxes on withdrawal would leave you with $ 3000, showing that the RRSP does indeed completely shelter gains from taxes when you account for the pre-tax nature properly.
MA: (1) The impact of AGW on tropical cyclone intensity & frequency covers much trampled ground but Munshi's analysis concentrates on a single paper of some age (Emanuel (2005), the one which first defined PDI and which, mathematically flawed or not, is immaterial to the subject as a whole.
That would be a shame, because I believe it's one of the most important works published on energy and the environment to date, with or without any flaws in its analyses.
He offered one of the first university courses on The Economics of the Environment, and in 1996 he wrote a scathing critique of benefit — cost analysis that argued that «the foundation of benefit - cost analysis is flawed: the tool can not provide what some economists claim.
I certainly don't want to base my own experiments or analyses on flawed methods or data.
It focussed on the Analysis, rather than either the Discussion and Conclusions; it falsely accused us of saying that the IPCC 4AR did not say something when our paper actually cited the 4AR and described what it said; and it deceitfully tried to claim that a Figure was flawed.
The student's relative dislike of this site was most likely associated with an emotional reaction to «attack» on scientists that they admire and papers that they find on the whole to be worthwhile and important, in spite of whatever minor flaws in the statistical analysis that might emerge, who arguably did the best they could with available data, models, whatever.
«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the fugitive emissions associated with unconventional gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to reducing those emissions to a level approaching that of conventional gas, base their comparison between gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of methane in the atmosphere.»
That doesn't mean there's no possibility whatsoever of Gleick having faked the memo, but so far I find the speculation on why «it is probably fake and Peter Gleick is a liar» to be highly flawed, including pseudo «independent analyses» by individuals who've enjoyed the hospitality of HI, if not their cheque book, and bat for the same ideological side.
These Russian experts in particular have a history of opposing international climate treaties (based on flawed expert analysis, as determined by other experts in the linked paper below):
Further on Rossander wrote My analysis was trivial, limited and deeply flawed.
It might be an interesting analysis after one or several pieces of work have been shown to be fatally flawed on scientific grounds.
«Both [Fall et al. 2011 and Menne et al. 2010](and cited by Muller et al) do an analysis over a thirty year time period while the Muller et al paper uses data for comparison from 1950 — 2010... I see this as a basic failure in understanding the limitations of the siting survey we conducted on the USHCN, rendering the Muller et al paper conclusions highly uncertain, if not erroneous... I consider the paper fatally flawed as it now stands, and thus I recommend it be removed from publication consideration by JGR until such time that it can be reworked... it appears they have circumvented the scientific process in favor of PR.»
It is reasonable to expect that if flaws exist then detailed alternative analyses would have been on record by now showing clearly where and how it is considered that these scientists have erred
These estimates are based on an analysis by the Perryman Group — funded by TransCanada — that independent analysts have called «dead wrong,» «meaningless,» «flawed and poorly documented.»
The Cooler Heads Coalition was formed on May 6, 1997, «to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific and risk analysis
A flawed, but fascinating analysis regarding climate change and the media appeared yesterday on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation website.
If you read my posts and comments on Ritson's letters to Wegman, you will see that the mistake Ritson pointed out — and yes it's a fatal flaw in Wegman's analysis — was never actually mentioned on ClimateAudit.
The Cooler Heads Coalition, also known as GlobalWarming.org, is formerly a sub-group of the National Consumer Coalition, but now run as an «informal and ad - hoc group focused on dispelling the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis
The public official charged with assessing the consultants» hugely flawed analysis has written: «The Marlow Society base their objection on what is considered to be a flawed computer analysis.
The climate science consensus today is that these speculative climate forecasts, based on flawed computer models, did not happen and expert analysis of the gold - standard of temperature datasets (the UK's global HadCRUT4) confirms it.
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