Sentences with phrase «results taken at face value»

The relationship between culture and cognition is surely vastly complicated, but Corner seems to think that complexity can be simply and easily ruled out with just a single questionnaire, and the results taken at face value.

Not exact matches

Indeed, it wasn't that the polls were wrong about the UK election; results were close, if you took people's voting intentions at face value.

Julian Glover's assumption that senior Tories might well benefit from improved clarity as to their intentions might result in an ideological war that Labour may think it can capitalise on (by taking the Coalition's necessity argument at face value, Labour will be able to uphold the seemingly reasonable position - that there are no social democratic ends by stateless means.)

Although local election and general election results tend to be quite similar to begin with (the two are 90 % correlated) a statistical prediction might offer a better indicator of what is likely to happen in the future then simply taking the results at face value.

That said, and taking the question at face value, taking Greece out of the equation might help Macedonia move from EU «candidate» status (like Albania) to actual negotiations (like Turkey since 2005 or more recently Montenegro and Serbia) but would be unlikely to result in a quick membership.

«Apparently, there is something that needs to be corrected, so at this point the BICEP result can not be taken at face value,» he tells Science.

Weaver said the new research provided a good summary of what is known about vitamin D and its effects on children, but that variations in the studies reviewed mean the results shouldn't be taken at face value.

Taking the treatment effects at face value, treatment schools in Houston would rank third out of twelve in math and fifth out of twelve in reading among charter schools in NYC with statistically significant positive results in the sample analyzed in Dobbie and Fryer (2011b).

Thus the results of mere reading tests must not be taken at face value, because such blunt instruments can not hope to measure the true effects of education.

Here's the funny thing: Even if you take the union officials» numbers at face value, the result actually confirms the thrust of Dropout Nation's analysis.

How many parents and community members are aware of this, and how many take the results at face value?

This basic honesty allows results published to be taken at face value (with the back - up of the methods section allowing reproducability of results if necessary.

The amount of different material that was in the paper, was far more than I could possibly research to verify, or find more detail on; so I typically take those articles at face value, and assume the author / s know what they are talking about; So I made no Judgement of Ruddiman as a result; I thought the idea was interesting.

I don't take at face value results of a model, but I take them as an important piece of information to be considered together with other information that can be obtained on the same issues.

Rather than take our published numbers at face value, they looked very carefully at our paper and took the deliberative step, using their statistical and climate expertise, to modify our results to a uniform prior in sensitivity.

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The lack of prior peer review is a red flag that should caution against taking the results at face value.

She went on to suggest that the child's various and plentiful outbursts and refusals to see his father were the result of being coached by the mother and should not be taken at face value.