Sentences with phrase «primary explanation»

Nevertheless, he and other researchers agree with the authors» primary explanation for why art is common in modern human sites and rare at Neandertal ones: social and demographic factors.

Berger cites a toxic culture as the primary explanation for why women are do not embrace these valuable majors.

Although the reasons for this variation are not clear, the marked differences in salt content of very similar products suggest that technical reasons are not a primary explanation.

When they were deleted in pairs with similar activity, the mice were still viable and fertile — ruling out redundancy as the primary explanation for the absence of major defects upon knockout of individual ultraconserved enhancers.

(1) The primary explanation appears to be groupthink, that is, the human tendency to fear the social consequences of nonconformity.

Regardless, alternative routes are unlikely to be the primary explanation for the changing SAT trends given that, with a few high - profile exceptions like Teach for America, alternative certification programs are not highly selective.

Echoing Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Putnam found that measures of civic associational life, everything from choral societies to soccer clubs, are the primary explanation for effective governance across Italy's regions.

While there could be other explanations outside our investigation, conventional wisdom has long pointed to new opportunities for college - educated women as the primary explanation for the change in teacher quality that many have sensed.

I think the primary explanation for that is that book popularity is short lived.

In other words, according to CAPM, the primary explanation for the performance of a portfolio is the performance of the market as a whole.

Both reasons may be relevant in different circumstances and it is not possible to identify a primary explanation from the data.

The fact that the observed rate is faster than the multi-model mean is probably due to natural variability, which is also likely the primary explanation for the same multi-model mean vs. observations discrepancy over the past decade.

This is likely to have contributed to the spike in warmth in 1940, but there is insufficient BC in glacial records at that time for it to be the primary explanation.

This article, Oregon lawyers can't skip the diversity class (10/12/06), describes the primary explanation given for opposition to the courses — they're boring!

Consistent with the other reports, the primary explanation for the discrepancy may be the fact that very few women hold the higher paying job titles sales director, VP, or manager.

If the programs do not produce the anticipated impacts in their communities, inconsistencies in implementation method likely will be the primary explanation as to why.