Sentences with phrase «report anecdotal evidence»

Some operators like Aspire Public Schools report anecdotal evidence of increased student engagement during independent work and better differentiation during face - to - face, small - group instruction.

Many parents report anecdotal evidence that technology leads to increased behavior problems.

There is a mountain of solidly reported anecdotal evidence that Puig is an immature jerk, even by typical baseball prima donna standards, and it's likely this is the reason most teams are staying away.

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Anecdotal evidence — and now the BCBS report — suggests they guessed incorrectly.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that investor interest in new apartments has been waning for some time, and some apartment developers report difficulties in meeting required pre-sales and face escalating construction costs, particularly in Melbourne.

Scientists and nutritionist have spent years researching the positive health benefits of chocolate (tough job) and I'm happy to report that I've collected my fair share of anecdotal evidence!

Anecdotal evidence from NCAA Division I football programs suggests that the signing by athletes of pledges acknowledging their responsibility to report concussion symptoms increases the rate of reporting by athletes, both of their own symptoms and those of teammates.

What continues to be lost, in my view, in much of what the media has reported over the last six years about the results of autopsies conducted by researchers at the Sports Legacy Institute in Boston on the brains of athletes - autopsies which show the presence of the dark splotches of tau protein which are the tell - tale sign of CTE - which is that they provide, at most, anecdotal evidence suggesting a possible connection.

Very little research has been done in this area so evidence is mainly clinical reporting and anecdotal.

Comments about the hostile response to any request for home birth confirm the anecdotal reports of consumer groups such as the Association for the Improvement in Maternity Services and the National Childbirth Trust and evidence to the Expert Maternity Group.1 In addition, many women who had booked a home birth were later transferred to hospital for delivery, both before and after the onset of labour.

While there is anecdotal evidence that the drugs appear to help some women make more milk, a 2011 report released by the American Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine found no conclusive evidence of «correlation between baseline prolactin levels and rates or milk synthesis or measured volumes of milk production.»

Many people believe part of the low test score issue is that kids can't learn if they aren't there and anecdotal evidence is reporting massive truancy.

«This report is based on anecdotal evidence.

McNeil and Sher reported that anecdotal evidence, including the survey results, indicated that dual - career employment difficulties lead in many cases to women leaving physics because they can not find employment in the field that suits their professional and personal needs.

«There aren't any new data presented, but we have a wealth of anecdotal evidence» pointing to a shortage of domestic scientific talent, says Joseph Miller, Corning's chief technology officer and chair of the task force, which has held a series of open meetings to discuss a long - awaited report that it plans to present to the board next week.

Food - related calls have been documented in many animals, including chimpanzees and bonobos, but aside from anecdotal reports from zoos, there was no evidence of it in gorillas.

Food - related calls have been documented in many animals, including chimps and bonobos, but apart from anecdotal reports from zoos, there had been no evidence of it in wild gorillas.

There is a large volume of anecdotal evidence supporting the reported health benefits of colloidal silver.

The above data is entirely based on anecdotal evidence, so don't take it as gospel or scientific, but rather consider these caffeine allergy symptoms as possible since they were reported by a large number of people.

We may not have evidence that sugar causes acne directly (aside from countless anecdotal reports) but we do have evidence that it leads to inflammation and it's an accepted fact that too much leads to insulin resistance.

It is also found to help improve cognitive function in animal studies with some anecdotal evidence that improvements are reported in patients taking Pycnogenol supplements.

The only data they have are anecdotal stories, like the ones presented below, or the few small - scale reports, like Matthew Chingos and Guido Schwerdt's study of Florida Virtual School (FLVS), which found no evidence that quality is poorer in the online environment.

There is anecdotal evidence that these declines in new certifications are putting pressure on districts and administrators, with many schools reporting difficulty finding qualified applicants for some open teaching positions.

The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with focus groups and recorded evidence of student learning through anecdotal reports.

While official say more data are needed, Ottawa is responding to extensive anecdotal evidence and media reports showing foreign investors are flipping homes in Canada and falsely claiming the primary residence exemption.

Those who develop processed dog foods and those who feed these diets point out the scientific reports that back their claims; those who feed BARF are equally as adamant that their anecdotal evidence about dog health and well - being proves the value of fresh, raw food.

The cause of limber tail has always been somewhat mysterious, with anecdotal evidence suggesting it happens more often in larger working dog breeds like Labrador retrievers, and has been reported in individual dogs who've recently swam in cold water (it's also sometimes called «swimmer's tail» or «cold tail.»)

Whether it is very common for the same bone to be the site of recurrence is not a matter of total agreement, although too many owners report it to be so, to ignore that strong anecdotal evidence.

There's no evidence, aside from anecdotal reports, that essential oils repel fleas.

The so - called evidence was anecdotal, including unsubstantiated, mis - reported news items.

Anecdotal evidence and sign - ons to the «Minority Report» etc. suggest the contrary.

Historical data are not questioned when it comes to «anecdotal (or reported) evidence» of battles of WWII, for example, and it is inconceivable to me that climate scientists give higher weighting to dicey paleo - climate studies than to historical documentation.

Of course «novel and interesting» doesn't mean «true», but I'd rather have evidence rather than anecdotal reports of the UHI in Dallas today.

My concern — also mentioned in the said reports, is the lack of data, and the tendency to replace scientific inquiry with «guessing» based upon either anecdotal evidence, or, worse, «hunches.»

In its Dec. 18 story on the ATRA report, The National Law Journal noted that the report «is based on anecdotal evidence» and that ATRA «does not provide a methodology used to reach results.»

While I hold out hope that by forcing employers to have policies and programs to address issues of workplace harassment, and especially workplace violence, incident rates of the same have decreased, anecdotal evidence as reported in seems to suggest otherwise.

This new legal technology salary mashup contains general salary data points gathered from an aggregation of publicly available technology and legal technology industry research, reports, and anecdotal evidence.

There, frequently, is no factual basis to what is being reported; and yet I will subsequently hear from other firms who are using some firm's anecdotal evidence as the justification for following in the same footsteps as their competitor.

While these organizations relied on qualitative or anecdotal evidence of improvement related to business operations and risk reduction, those that provided estimates, reported time saved in the execution of compliance and risk tasks ranging between 25 % and 30 %.

Still, many of these reports are anecdotal, and hard evidence of North Korea's activities remains elusive.

To begin this process, in the Social Justice Report 2011 I explain the theory underpinning lateral violence that supports the anecdotal evidence from our communities.

The Australian Public Service Commission's 2009 Census Report has provided further anecdotal evidence of the negative impacts of bullying within the workplace.

Further evidence of tightening labor market conditions was reported in the Federal Reserve's beige book, a June report based on anecdotal information collected across the central bank's 12 districts.