Sentences with phrase «scientific empirical testing»

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He has directly entered scientific fields with hypotheses suggested by his metaphysics, proposed testable hypotheses, and himself tested them against the empirical evidence.

By contrast, testing is an empirical, scientific operation.

LA JOLLA — With forensic science facing mounting scrutiny as it plays an increasingly prominent role in the administration of justice, six scientists who recently served on the National Commission on Forensic Science are calling on the scientific community at large to advocate for increased research and financial support of forensic science as well as the introduction of empirical testing requirements to ensure the validity of outcomes.

But this strong scientific discussion of theory and empirical analysis of incentives and accountability breaks down when it comes to the committee's core purpose: evaluating accountability regimes in education that employ incentives and tests.

In the end, the most pressing questions in the education wars are not just empirical, scientific questions, but also ethical ones regarding the unfortunate social consequences of the progressive faith, especially the perpetuation of the test - score gaps among racial and economic groups.

But in their darkest moments, IQ tests became a powerful way to exclude and control marginalized communities using empirical and scientific language.

By their nature, studies of aspects of the past which can no longer be directly measured but which may be partially revealed by various proxies will never have complete reliability, but they ARE being properly and rigorously pursued by long tested scientific methods of working with any available empirical data that might help improve the picture.

Fifth, even if real scientific investigation (which doesn't stop with modeling but tests models by empirical observation) could tell us that, say, falling 50 % short of net zero «carbon» emissions would raise GAT by, say, 3 ° C and that that, in turn, would cause significant harms, that wouldn't tell us how we ought to respond.

The scientific method demands that theories be tested by empirical observation.

Popper also states: «But I shall certainly admit a system as empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience.

That's just not a valid «if» — it reduces scientific hypothesis testing as a deterministic toolkit working from one necessity to the next, and goes about everything we know about empirical matters.

I believe empirical testing (i.e. statistics / econometrics) to be crucial part of the scientific method.