Sentences with phrase «on unreliable data»

Further, in describing flaws in the data the EEOC's expert Kevin Murphy relied upon to support the disparate impact claim, the Judge labeled these reports as 1) «laughable»; 2) «based on unreliable data»; 3) «rife with analytical error»; 4) containing «a plethora of errors and analytical fallacies,» and a «mind - boggling number of errors»; 5) «completely unreliable»; 6) «so full of material flaws that any evidence of disparate impact derived from an analysis of its contents must necessarily be disregarded»; 7) «distorted»; 8) «both over and under inclusive»; 9) «cherry - picked»; 10) «worthless»; and 11) «an egregious example of scientific dishonesty.»

: someone who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.

Messenger Lite, which is not available in the United States, is a much simpler version of the app that is meant for regions filled with low - end smartphones running on unreliable data connections.

It also might be based on unreliable data.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

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.

A 2010 United Nations report said deforestation rates were decreasing, but it turns out that analysis was based in part on unreliable government data.

«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.

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.

In a forthcoming article in Education Finance and Policy, a peer - reviewed scholarly journal, Ruttaya Tongrut and I show that teacher pay estimates based on the household survey data used by these authors are unreliable and seriouslyunder - report true teacher pay.

«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.

Concerns with data quality spur the legislature to create a new school and district rating category named «not rated due to data quality» based on finding that district dropout data submissions are late, missing or unreliable.

This would mean that data on smaller schools is very unreliable, while larger schools could be more predictable.

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

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».

The department has recently begun adding notes to school chronic absenteeism data posted on its DataQuest website warning that the statistics may be unreliable.

In other words, the data that you'll find on a free book agents list is often incomplete and / or unreliable.

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.

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.

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).

Even studies confined to the Atlantic often ignore all data prior 1950, on the grounds that it is unreliable.

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...

I myself think that all of the statistical surface models are unreliable, on mathematical grounds, not to mention data quality problems.

I recommend that the Trump Administration issue the Draft Report with an added section explaining how useless and biased the rest of the Draft Report is because it primarily relies on meaningless model results and unreliable surface temperature data.

But it isn't easy to verify this claim, or falsify the GCMs, because we have reliable data on only a 33 year segment, with somewhat less reliable data available for perhaps twice that long, and rather unreliable data available before that.

But problems remain: electricity planners lack bottom - up data on how consumers use energy; entrepreneurs struggle to get start - up financing for their solar companies; and in some cases, electricity delivered is too unreliable or expensive for consumers.

The OHC data are based on the inaccurate methods of earlier decades and are therefore unreliable.

25 years of collecting unreliable (at best) and «noisy» temperature data from all over the face of the world, computer modeling over an even smaller span of years by people working on government grants and there you have it folks, predictions of gloom and doom for our planet with «information» extrapolated from 1850 to 2300 with all sorts of «modeled» graphs and pretty «manufactured» pictures offered as proof.

The original study, authored by Harvard University's Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes, relies on data analysis that is «unreliable, invalid, biased, not generalizable, and not replicable,» according to the expert, whose methods were cited by Supran and Oreskes.

I hope this will help them make the case the surface record is an unreliable mess, and any Cap and Trade bill would be based on faulty data.

Alito also noted that politicians can rely on speculation and unreliable data like polls.

Often, the financial data on which settlements are based is unreliable.

They want to focus on hyper - local data but the more local they go the more unreliable the data becomes.