Sentences with word «spurious»

This is a very serious misunderstanding of the likely importance of spurious correlation in dendroclimatology, one that has been repeated over and over at various blogs.

This had it's genesis in a «comment» on my 2009 paper on spurious correlations in work by McKitrick and Michaels and separately, de Laat and Maurelis.

Unless this is studied and accounted for volcanoes are likely to result in spurious warming «corrections».

Alice Woolley has written thoughtfully about the questionable claims often contained in these letters and the important ethical questions raised by the practice of some «lawyers sending out demand letters based on spurious claims in the hope of extracting funds because of the fear and ignorance of those who receive them» (see, e.g., here, here and here).

Crikey is being paid richly in oil to dumby us down with spurious arguments.

Forbes insists it was not racist for Trump to have tried to delegitimize the first black president of America with spurious claims of his birthplace.

It is now clear that the majority — perhaps the vast majority — of neuroscience findings are as spurious as brain waves in a dead fish (see «Hidden depths: Brain science is drowning in uncertainty «-RRB-.

One way to find out is to wait patiently for a particle to smack into a detector buried deep underground to avoid spurious signals from ordinary particles raining down from space.

Mr. Adewale also made spurious allegations about the Turakin Adamawa nursing a presidential ambition for 2019.

Studies on the effects of divorce are plagued by spurious correlations, incalculable variables, and the near - impossibility of separating cause from effect.

Had the company dismissed Cavenagh for gross misconduct on spurious grounds rather than through exercising a contractual right, they could have relied upon the repudiatory breach to avoid the payment.

That detection was riddled with problems, drawn out from spurious data, and ignored a low signal - to - noise ratio in search of a sensational new planet, the kind science fiction has long dreamed of.

In addition, these effects were not spurious associations due to age, gender, or batch (i.e., measurement) effects.

Data are sometimes lost — even, as one researcher claimed when confronted about spurious results, eaten by termites.

S&W combined two different types of data, and it is well - known that such combinations in themselves may introduces spurious trends.

In a bad quarter, they could find spurious reasons to release those reserves and — voila!

Do hundreds of trials and you will see many spurious effects, even at the 99 per cent confidence level.

Charge Transfer Inefficiency (CTI) due to radiation damage above the Earth's atmosphere creates spurious trailing in Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images.

But there are also many spurious signals in the data record which scientists must beware of treating as if they represented climate changes in the real world.»

They may characterize such allegations as spurious attacks on personality, desperate attempts to gain advantage, superficial pretexts for the pursuit of sole custody or nothing more than old school mud - slinging.

Using their recently developed methods for removing spurious artefacts from historic satellite cloud records, Joel Norris et al. have constructed a record of the global pattern of cloud changes between the 1980s and the 2000s.

Many of the arrests for Marijuana DUI will be based on such spurious evidence as the «green tongue» phenomenon.

You can easily tell the difference between that and spurious conclusions with some basic tests that I almost never see from people who seem particularly motivated to deny warming.

From the MW paper, it sounds like they considered proxy selection and the method used by Mann08 to reduce the number of proxies used, but was suspect that the method may give spurious results:

In this way, the unadjusted or «raw» temperature data contains spurious artefacts (including artificial «jumps» in the data in individual site records) from non-climatic factors that are likely to bias derived trends.

As discussed above, the MBH98 reconstruction and the variants of the reconstruction (i.e., Figures 2 and 3) that address the various spurious criticisms raised by MM, each pass statistical verification.

The latest system upgrade called Spurious Dragon has been implemented on the evening of 22 November as the block number 2675000 was mined.

We've had a temperature record a very spurious one for the maybe past 100 years, in the last 30 years a satellite temperature record.

«What I'm appalled about is that the ministry has already spent some # 85m of taxpayers» money, not on the Armed Forces or on new kit or equipment for the Armed Forces, but on London law firms who are bringing forward these fairly spurious cases.

Consequently, most in the field simply refrain from using the word «Syndrome» in an effort to avoid spurious debate about what is really a non-issue.

Yet immigration is rarely debated - indeed it is systematically smothered by spurious charges of racism.

These licensing agreements usually come with gags, silencing the victims while the troll approaches their next target with more spurious claims.

And doesn't art history always mark a ceaseless trajectory, at least from our standpoint, even though the often spurious notion of progress is inevitably invoked?

Alarmed experts pointed out that no link between the vaccine and MS has ever been established and fretted that the Luxembourg - based court had opened the floodgates to large numbers of spurious lawsuits.