Sentences with phrase «poor experimental design»
The study was the result of 15 years» work cataloguing the factors that plague the interpretation of scientific results, such as the misuse of statistics or poor experimental design.
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Among these methodological problems are biases that lead to the overestimation of the effect under study and underestimation of experimental noise, poor research protocols and study design, and inappropriate use and interpretation of statistics.
Plus, the U.K. has a poor record in the past with its own experimental fast reactor designs — the Dounreay Fast Reactor and the Prototype Fast Reactor — including multiple sodium leaks.
I can also spot poor experimental and clinical trial design and methodologically flawed studies — and I know that the evidence for cause and effect in humans is incredibly tenuous at best.
A pre-post study design is piss poor epidemiology, even if it is experimental.
From a total of 19 schools, the three or four most similar schools were identified within each of the five urban areas and randomly assigned to one of three conditions were 1) GBG, 2) the Mastery Learning (ML) program (designed to improve poor reading achievement), and 3) an external control condition with no experimental intervention.