Sentences with phrase «scant evidence suggesting»

That's due in part to the scant evidence suggesting the tests are a predictor of future professional ability, according to the Ed Week report.

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And while there is scant evidence to suggest the Waterloo, Ont., firm is set to revisit its glory days (its valuation was $ 83.4 billion in 2008; it's $ 4.3 billion now), in 2016 it took the bold step of redefining its identity as a smaller, more focused and, arguably, more sustainable business.

Conventional economic theory suggests that low unemployment should ultimately lead to upward pressure on wages - but there has been scant evidence of this during the latest squeeze on household finances.

Research suggests that this form of punishment can cause severe psychiatric and neurological damage to inmates, and evidence for its effectiveness in reducing crime or recidivism is scant.

Some researchers suggested that the key might be gene expression, the rate at which messenger RNA and proteins are made from a gene, but the evidence has been scant.

Other factors also suggest Mars once had a much thicker atmosphere, such as evidence of persistent presence of liquid water on the planet's surface long ago even though the atmosphere is too scant for liquid water to persist on the surface now.

But there is scant evidence to suggest that sterilizing pit bulls (or any dogs) actually makes them safer.

Actually, by the time you approach 200ppmv for CO2, you have already reached the break point in the curve, beyond which additional CO2 has much less impact on the RF — and this is close to the glacial value — suggesting that CO2 changes do not drive the glacial cycles (CO2 changes are supposed to amplify T rise during deglaciation, but there is scant evidence for this and the assumption that it did also underlay the IPCC belief — and a great many references in academic papers give a T degrees C per ppmv CO2 without stating over which range of concentrations this is meant to apply.

Evidence of this is «scant», however, which suggests it is «extremely unlikely».