I've
seen some conflicting data regarding the next 5 - year growth estimates.
Not exact matches
For their study, published Nov. 8, 2016, in Environmental Research Letters, the researchers first analyzed vegetation cover
data for the months leading up to the storm to
see if the Syrian
conflict had really changed the land cover that much.
Rather than create drastic salt policies based on
conflicting data, Alderman and his colleague Hillel Cohen propose that the government sponsor a large, controlled clinical trial to
see what happens to people who follow low - salt diets over time.
Such growing entanglements have stirred significant concern over
conflicts of interest (
see» Wearing Two Hats» and» University - Industry Collaborations: Whose
Data?»)
Although the differing effects of hypoxia reported here are in
conflict with previously published
data, where no contrasting effect was
seen (18 — 20), our
data was produced using 13 primary breast cancer samples, as well as established cell lines, and the opposing effects in hormone receptor — positive and negative tumors, measured using multiple in vitro and in vivo CSC assays, were consistent in all cases.
This
conflicts with the Jones et al. (2001) global land instrumental temperature
data (Figure 2.1), and the combined hemispheric and global land and marine
data (Figure 2.7), where clear warming is not
seen until the beginning of the 20th century.
As a non-scientist who sometimes struggles with
conflicting data it is good to
see the tricks being exposed.
In a more conventional field, in which highly technical papers were published in professional journals rather than Nature or Science, the paper would be read by the few experts, who over the next few years would try to understand what it all means, whether it is really new, what the weaknesses might be, do their own analyses to
see how robust the results are, and ask if there are
conflicting data sets.
I
see much
data that is
conflicting.
This slower warming of the tropical Pacific induces changes in the atmospheric circulation that can be
seen in the reanalyses, but two different reanalysis products that incorporate different amounts of satellite
data in different ways produce
conflicting estimates of the change in circulation.
See, for example, the recent CERN nutrino
data that appear to
conflict with the basic underpinnings of Einstein's theory of relativity.
If, however, you go to scientific meetings like AGU and you sit in on a session where there is some
conflict (real or apparent), what you'll
see is not contrarians vs establishment, but a whole bunch of skeptical individuals trying all sorts of ways to reconcile the different
data.
I had
seen in the M&M articles his claim that something like 99 % of 10,000 red -
data runs produced the hockey stick, which is in great
conflict with what you've now told me.