Sentences with phrase «scientific validity of»

Measuring Program Quality: Evidence of the scientific validity of the Assessment of Program Practices Tool (APT)

The overall goal of this review was to conduct an external evaluation of the scientific validity of the Paths to QUALITY standards.

The result in September 2016 was PCAST's lengthy report released on September 20, 2016, and entitled «Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature - Comparison Methods» («Report»).

The report also recommended removal of all crime labs from the administrative control of law enforcement agencies and prosecutors» offices, creation of standard terminology for reports and testimony, and increases in funding for peer - reviewed research into the scientific validity of various forensic techniques.

My immediate interest is to understand the scientific validity of the recent hypothesis, and more generally to understand the processes and interactions affecting NH atmospheric circulation, particularly the jet stream and polar vortex.

Many also question the scientific validity of the IPCC projections of future anthropogenic warming and its consequences, especially the IPCC premise that these are likely to result in serious negative impacts, i.e. a serious potential threat to humanity and our environment, unless actions are undertaken to curtail human GHG emissions (principally CO2).

# 2 is more specific to the scientific validity of the premise (Feynman).

It's probably fairly safe to assume that he didn't pick any of those IPCC scientists who were «dubious about the scientific validity of the burning embers diagram».

In this activity, students will research weather proverbs, analyze the scientific validity of three weather proverbs and present their reasoning in an essay.

And now tell me, please, what the «irrefutable data», the empirical, statistical evidence supposedly was for the scientific validity of the assertion of a «global warming standstill» or a «global warming stop» in recent years.

With Obama and Premier Wen Jiabao's visits, the recent e-mail scandal casting doubt on the scientific validity of climate data known as «Climategate,» over 200 world leaders and 25,000 participants in attendance, this year's COP - 15 will surely be one for the ages... stay tuned.

This casts doubt on the scientific validity of any of their statements.

«Some of the scientists (including some senior functionaries) involved» in the report «were dubious about the scientific validity of the burning embers diagram, and I just could not push it through,» he said.

Rather than saying that Judith is wrong, it would be more accurate to say that you disagree with Judith and for that matter Nic Lewis on the scientific validity of AOGCM's for predicting climate patterns or for that matter climate sensitivity.

Midway through the twentieth century, long - held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colors gave way to an excitement about color as a mass - produced and standardized commercial product.

Midway through the twentieth century, long - held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colours gave way to an excitement about colour as a mass - produced and standardised commercial product.

I'd always wondered about the scientific validity of claims made regarding «left and right brain thinking», «Gardiner's Multiple Intelligences» and «brain gym exercise».

I can't answer for the scientific validity of the claims made by Bikram Yoga Instructors.

Dr Roberto Gilmozzi: Time is allocated by a time allocation committee that is made up of people that do not belong to the organisation and they meet together and judge the scientific validity of proposals and then they make a list and we try to get as many as we can fitted in during a certain period of time.

In the paper, Eriksson and Lacerda cite two studies that question the scientific validity of LVA technology, which analyzes the pressure waves that make up an utterance and tallies spikes, or «thorns,» and plateaus in order to deduce the speakers state of mind.

If creationists in Texas get their way, students in the US could soon receive biology textbooks that falsely cast doubt on the scientific validity of evolution

And we took a brief look at the available work on the subject, which is very mixed on the effect of pornography and the scientific validity of so - called porn addiction.

Whatever you may think of the scientific validity of their positions, or the degree to which they have, or have not, been influenced by the nefarious dairy lobby (and I offer no opinion on either point), here are some leading organizations that currently support flavored milk in schools: the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, the National Medical Association, the National Hispanic Medical Association and the School Nutrition Association.

The formula industry objected to what it called the «grossly misleading visuals» in the ad campaign and questioned the scientific validity of claims of a higher incidence of diseases in babies who are not breast - fed.

Not exact matches

That model formed the basis of the Myers - Briggs test, which has no scientific basis and has been shown to have poor validity and reliability, among a host of other criticisms.

There are a number of scientists who have serious concerns about the validity of Darwinian evolution but are afraid to come out of the closet because of the bullying in the scientific community.

For too many people, it's simply better to just deny scientific fact and play ignorant than address logically some serious questions regarding the validity of human scientific achievement.

Yes I know this will happen because I have been through these arguments time and time again and when I pull out my Bible that people claim to have read and match it to the scientific evidence that points very clearly to the validity and truth of the Bible they shut up and don't want to hear it.

There really isn't any disagreement in the scientific community over the validity of evolutionary theory.

While some scientists have expressed opinions about the validity of religious beliefs, I don't know that many, if any, have attempted to prove or disprove religion using the scientific method.

However, recent scientific advances in the realm of the quantum world have shown that there comes a point when objective testing and validity is no longer possible.

They have fought advances of thought, they have tried to defeat the efforts of men and women to know more about the world, they have denied the validity of scientific truth, they have called into question the freedom and responsibility, as well as the dignity, of human life.

To deny the veracity of the Theory of Evolution and its 5 laws is to deny the validity of the scientific method itself.

Scientific reason, if accurate, was valid, but it was not the only valid kind of reasoning: noncontradiction, validity, truth, value, meaning, purpose, and obligation were necessary presuppositions of the scientific method but not themselves scientific Scientific reason, if accurate, was valid, but it was not the only valid kind of reasoning: noncontradiction, validity, truth, value, meaning, purpose, and obligation were necessary presuppositions of the scientific method but not themselves scientific scientific method but not themselves scientific scientific phenomena.

Sorry this is such a long post, but I felt that providing an example of a «scientific disproving» of evolution as well as the circ.umstances in which it was given would be instructive as to the validity of the hypothesis.

Being interesting and inspiring is however not a criterion of validity of a scientific or philosophical theory.

But in unfolding itself like this, faith follows the categories of scientific thinking and assesses its own validity in accordance with the rules of judgment and conclusion.

It is one thing to justify the intellectual validity of the scientific enterprise; it is another to understand that enterprise as a positive avenue of service to God.

Thus, seemingly in order protect the validity of metaphysics, they have tried to depict scientific methodology as a radically different type of observation from normal human observation of the physical.

It is one thing to affirm the validity of the scientific method and to insist on its complete autonomy within the field where it alone logically applies.

Essentially, the question of religious validity has now turned into a clash in scientific theory.

What gives his argument its unexcelled value is his scientific reserve, his disclaimer of any proof having mathematical validity.

These men are convinced, for the most part, of the validity and importance of the scientific - therapeutic approach to alcoholism.

It should be evident by now that our question about purpose in nature is one way of raising the problem of the intelligibility and validity of religious discourse in a scientific age.

In the case of the bible (and all holy books for that matter), it can not be falsified, therefore it holds no scientific validity.

There has been MANY archeological findings that SUPPORT the Book of Mormon's validity (and I COULD go into long, protracted detail, but won't here) as well as scientific undrstanding about the oft - used DNA issue, that is a NON - issue in reality.

Since CAR activists employ scientific arguments to support their view that trapping constitutes a violation of our requirement to «care for creation», the remainder of this paper will evaluate the validity of these arguments.

«To suggest we can't know how old the Earth is, then, is to deny the validity of these scientific methods altogether» - No it's to be open minded to the idea that we might be wrong, on the other hand to accept these dates without question or reservation is to accept current science without question.

Left - leaning blogs and sites like ThinkProgress and Huffington Post jumped on Rubio's comments, with the Zack Beauchamp from ThingProgress writing, «To suggest we can't know how old the Earth is, then, is to deny the validity of these scientific methods altogether — a maneuver familiar to Rubio, who also denies the reality of anthropogenic climate change.»

Where Rubio's statement went all to heck is the point where he questions the scientific consensus on the Earth's age, which calls into question everything we have learned in the past 500 years, and the validity of the scientific method itself.