Sentences with phrase «own direct observation»

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The chief techniques for gathering such data include mail questionnaires, interviews, retail store shelf audits, use of electronic scanners at retail checkout counters, and direct observation in stores.

Science is not religion, it is a method of enquiry based upon direct observation which transcends religion (the laws of physics are the same for everyone, no matter how you name God or even whether you believe).

Even without these direct observations, it would be wrong to say that evolution hasn't been observed.

Only with the dawn of the space age in the 20th century has it been possible for humans to travel far enough into space to verify by direct observation that the earth is a globe.

The statement «We breed a great variety of dogs,» which rests on direct observation, is much easier to prove than the statement that the earth goes around the sun, which requires sophisticated reasoning.

So your first proof could be by direct observation FOREVER.

«Such thought,» notes Whitehead, «supplies the differences which the direct observation lacks.

What is often called «direct observation» is in point of fact a highly sophisticated mental function in which the causal impact of objects on the observer is interpreted selectively by observers according to their purposes.

In a manner analogous to Aristotle's grounding of induction in «experience,» Whitehead is quite emphatic in stating that direct observation is incapable of serving as the springboard for arriving at the larger generalities.

You have direct observation of intelligence designing things.

Whitehead recognizes that the «appeal to the facts is a difficult operation» (PR 11/16) and can not be accomplished by a simple appeal to direct observation.

Direct observation is not only unnecessary in science; direct observation is in fact usually impossible for the things that really matter.

We can not prove that all current diversity of life was produced by evolution by natural selection because that would require a time machine for direct observation.

Scientific investigation does not require complete recapitulation or direct observation of an event to be applicable, e.g. a genetic paternity test is reliable despite not having observed or directly recapitulated the act of conception under investigation.

Again, the observation of a rabbit fossil in pre-Cambrian strata, human fossils alongside dinosaurs, a true chimera, or the direct observation of an organism ex nihilo would undermine evolution.

The atom is not just inaccessible to direct observation and unimaginable in terms of sensory qualities; it can not even be described coherently in terms of classical concepts such as space, time and causality.

To demand that what we say about God be verifiable by direct observation or by an airtight process of logical deduction makes no more sense than to demand this of statements about Millard Fillmore.

Losses and waste were quantified (either through direct observation or interviews with farmers, retailers, consumers, and others) and extrapolated across the value chain.

Drawn from direct observation by Basketball Editor Jeremiah Tax and correspondents in the field, as well as from analyses especially prepared by coaches of each team, the reports cover 180 teams, including all those eligible for the NCAA championship.

Six models showed favourable effects on primary outcome measures (e.g., standardized measures of child development outcomes and reduction in behaviour problems).13 Only studies with outcomes using direct observation, direct assessment, or administrative records were included.

Through interviews, content analysis, and direct observation of the leading netroots organizations, the book offers fresh insights into 21st century political organizing.

«The direct observation of how energetic plasma species behave on nanosecond timescales in the Neptune beam will help us to better control the processes that underpin neutralization,» Dedrick said.

Statisticians can analyze these climate models along with direct observations to learn about Earth's climate.

Computer simulations of the biosphere have predicted such responses to drought, but these are the first direct observations of this effect across tropical forests.

Room - temperature investigations apply several techniques (polarization microscopy, single - molecule imaging, emission time dependence, energy transfer, lifetime studies, and the like) to a growing array of biophysical problems where new insight may be gained from direct observations of hidden static and dynamic inhomogeneity.

Many physicists are hopeful that LIGO will make the first direct observation of gravitational waves in the next few years.

This was done through a combination of direct observation and recording evidence such as footprints and feces, as well as in - depth interviews with landowners and residents, who were quizzed about species presence through photographs, animal noises and local knowledge.

«Because neutron spectroscopy could «see» hydrogen due to its large neutron scattering cross-section, it succeeded where optical spectroscopy techniques failed and enabled the first direct observations of cerium hydrides both on the surface and in the bulk of a cerium oxide catalyst,» Wu said.

Wei Wang and Zhi Ping Wang at the A * STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, De Yun Wang at the National University of Singapore and co-workers have now developed the first microfluidic device that enables the direct observation of cilia and their beating frequency on a polyester membrane [1].

«Direct observation of bond formations.»

Another challenge is to combine the rigor of quantitative research with the depth of insight direct observation can provide.

The foundation, according to its Web site, favors «empirical studies of real organizations and people, especially studies that employ field work and direct observation.»

Using a variety of geophysics measurements and laboratory experiments, researchers are capable of gaining some degree of insight into material properties under certain pressure conditions without actually being able to make direct observations.

«Nothing is better than direct observation,» he says.

In the dry season, surface water reservoirs are at the same level as the aquifer that feeds them: altitude measurements of the surface water then made possible direct observations of the height of the groundwater.

A Japanese team have digitalized magnetogram recordings taken before direct observations by satellites became available.

Astronomers detect planets too far away for direct observation by the dimming in light when a world passes in front of, or transits, its host star.

Tools for working around this problem have been invented, like the electron microscope and X-ray diffraction, but these are like canes for blind people: no substitute for direct observation.

But it may also soon host one of the most important experiments in particle physics — one capable of confirming our best direct observations of dark matter.

Since these telescopes would be able to pierce the dark clouds that had kept stellar birth hidden from direct observation, researchers hoped that they would reveal infalling gas and confirm the timeworn infall theory.

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environment.

Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first direct observations delineating the gas disk around a baby star from the infalling gas envelope.

«Direct observation of topology hidden inside materials: Determining the topological nature of materials by their substances is more important than their appearance.»

«This is the first direct observation that these two phenomena are linked: The density waves with their associated nanoscale distortions disappear and the electrons in the material change their personality suddenly at a well - defined material composition,» Billinge said.

This direct observation confirms a long - held suspicion that the static electron arrangement and associated nanoscale fluctuations impair the free flow of electrons — like ice on a river impairs the flow of liquid water, Davis said.

«We now have direct observations that seeding of certain clouds follows a pathway first theorized in the mid-20th century.»

Bjornlie, for instance, collected specific data on the number of bison in one research area and on their distribution, movement and activity through direct observation in the field.

However, direct observation of their ecosystem has revealed that they are mainly pollinated by fungus gnats, probably thanks to their resemblance to mushrooms.

For many groups of mammals, geneticists tend to put forward earlier dates of origin than those provided by direct observation of the fossil record.