Sentences with phrase «on flawed assumptions»

In your case, the specific real life example was causing you to make assumptions about how people would act, and that made your question confusing and seemingly based on flawed assumptions.

Both Hansen and McKibben suggest that oil sands emissions could increase CO2 concentration in the atmosphere by up to 200ppm, but this is both an extreme overestimate based on flawed assumptions and irrelevant to the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The AAA says results of the tests it commissioned also suggest upcoming national emissions - reduction regulations may be based on flawed assumptions.

Some of us have been saying for a long time that HS2 would be a monstrous waste of taxpayers» money, based as it is on flawed assumptions and a shoddy business case.

King lets many bankers off too easily here — their excessive leverage and risk - taking were based on flawed assumptions which could easily have been avoided.

Most rely on flawed assumptions and perpetuate problematic myths,» she said.

Buffalo Wild Wings said Marcato's belief that the company should move to a franchise model is based on flawed assumptions.

The argument that the best we can do for the planet's future is have fewer children is based on a flawed assumption: that we can not change our lifestyle and consume less.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> The head of a trade organization that represents neighborhood convenience stores said a proposal by Ulster County Executive Michael Hein to raise the age for tobacco purchases to 21 is «based on a flawed assumption» and would cause businesses to «forfeit legitimate sales.»

But local convenience store owners, as well as the head of the trade group that represents neighborhood convenience stores, have said the bill is «based on a flawed assumption» that the law would prevent youth smoking.

European countries» support for wood - based energy sources is based on a flawed assumption that they are carbon neutral

However, the mainstream Keystone XL and Northern Gateway campaigns operate on a flawed assumption that the climate movement can compel our elected leaders to respond to the climate crisis with nothing more than an effective communications strategy.

Not exact matches

Every subsequent Congress and administration has relied on equally flawed, implausible assumptions and made similarly flawed decisions, right up to the present one.

I believe strongly in the need to go through the exercise of building a financial model (can focus mind and expose hidden assumptions and flaws), and agree that the focus should not be on formal financial documents or even on the resulting numbers themselves (that is, until you are up and running and have real numbers).

But as a couple of astute commentators on the Macleans blog pointed out, Relentlessly Progressive Economics had already noted the studyâ $ ™ s flawed assumption about capital.

Without going into details here, there are too many assumptions in dating techniques used by evolutionists, but don't take my word for it... just do a little unbiased research on «flaws in dating techniques» and go through these sites just to get you started for the major flaws in evolution that even evolutionists can not debate.

There are huge flaws based on assumptions in carbon dating.

This graphic depicts the carbon intensity of shipping wine from various global wine regions to key U.S. cities and bases its data on a seriously flawed, two - year - old working paper that is filled with untested assumptions, has not been peer reviewed, and does not accurately reflect the complexities of greenhouse gas emissions in the wine sector.

The assumptions on which the government's rushed review was based were fundamentally flawed.

I don't put much faith in opinion polls, pollsters always claim to have solved past apparent flaws, but they haven't said exactly how they now how reluctant a particular parties supporters may be to support that party, how exactly they quantify it, indeed a lot of the assumptions opinion polls make seem to be based on opinion themselves.

The (Stringer) report, which incorrectly interpreted AirDNA data to make assumptions on the impact of Airbnb on New York City rental prices, comes to flawed conclusions at great cost to the thousands of Airbnb hosts that rely on the platform to make ends meet.

«The report, which incorrectly interpreted AirDNA data to make assumptions on the impact of Airbnb on New York City rental prices, comes to flawed conclusions at great costs to thousands of Airbnb hosts that rely on the platform to make ends meet,» the firm said in a scorching statement.

Well, recently, a group of researchers published a paper arguing that there may be fundamental flaws in the ways protein requirements have been calculated in the past, based on some faulty assumptions.

That assumption was based on flawed research, the conclusions of which were entirely erroneous.

The mosque leaders have claimed that the plans are based on «the flawed assumption that radicalisation takes place within some madrassas» and that such «control and monitoring» over lessons would «effectively lead to a form of state sanctioned religious expression».

The rationale for most of these authors is based on an assumption I consider flawed: that male readers won't read books by women.

However, this myth is not based on any solid evidence or statistics, rather it is a general statement that is factually incorrect and usually based on broad assumptions and flawed logic.

One thing I did not see in the discussion (perhaps I missed it) is a flaw in the initial assumption that Joe needs an extra $ 275 / month to pay the interest on the investment loan.

I've already said this on his site, but I have to disagree that this study proves anything - the assumptions going into it are flawed.

He says: «cloud computing enables us to run millions of simulations in a cost - effective way so that portfolios can be optimised on an individual investor basis without the flawed assumptions we used to rely on».

Balanced dog training arose out of the flawed assumption that positive reinforcement training is not effective on its own.

The authors» «intermediate» figure of «38.7 million birds killed by rural cats» [13] is based on the results of a study involving just four «urban» cats and one rural cat in Virginia [14, 15](this, in addition to Coleman and Temple's several flawed assumptions).

In a paper released on December 1 by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, Dr. Goklany says WHO's forecast that climate change would bring about 250,000 extra deaths annually between 2030 and 2050 is based on «absurd assumptions,» «willful exaggerations,» and «flawed methodologies.»

However from what I have read and what I have seen, much of the actual science seems to be flawed, and is heavily weighted on assumptions which are in turn based on assumptions, based on sketchy data, in which much of the methods used are questionable.

Basing a hypothesis on flawed reasoning and assumptions goes against the scientific method.

On how the great AGW threat is based on nothing more than flawed computer models and unsupported assumptionOn how the great AGW threat is based on nothing more than flawed computer models and unsupported assumptionon nothing more than flawed computer models and unsupported assumptions:

Critics say a report predicting dire consequences for continuing Ohio's renewable energy standards is flawed because it relies on improper and outdated assumptions.

Integrated assessment models (IAMs) used by researchers today — where climate change data is integrated with economic data — are dangerously flawed because they are based on naïve assumptions, according to Kevin Anderson from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change at the University of Manchester, UK.

Why was my comment on the critical flaw of the Gaussian assumption of the ANOVA was deleted.

In equating disagreement with lack of integrity, he offers a prime example of what is broken in the climate debate, with folks on both sides working from an assumption that their opponents have deeply flawed, even evil motives.

Richard Douthwaite argues that a similarly flawed judgement is evident in the assumption that the economy will recover, and advises on how to prepare for a future of global economic contraction.

However, it would be clearly appropriate to consider a SCC range not only because there are technically justifiable differences in the key input assumptions but also because the SCC value originally proposed for this program was based on the flawed Obama Administration IWG assumptions that did not follow OMB guidance on the use of discount rates.