Sentences with phrase «sweeping conclusions»

The report draws sweeping conclusions from average statewide data for just 44 states.

What would you say if an atmospheric scientist made sweeping conclusions about your field of medicine, I wonder?

But he is a different organism than I am, and it's foolish to derive sweeping conclusions from experiments with a sample size of 1 person.

He asked jurors not to make sweeping conclusions based on «snippets» of press statements.

However, relying on erroneous data to draw sweeping conclusions benefits no one.

Geographers do not use experiments and they are used to making broad sweeping conclusions based on data sets without ever testing their conclusions using the established methods of science, logic and philosophy.

These arguments also show that Whitehead's account raises afresh, somewhat surprisingly for those who regard him as Hume's opposite on induction, some of the latter's doubts concerning the justifiability of sweeping conclusions reached through scientific inference.

While optimistic about the results, Gupta and his team are cautious to avoid sweeping conclusions about the significance of the test.

Whereas contributors to Steady Gains and Stalled Progress extrapolate agonizingly tentative findings from rigorous reading of the available statistical evidence, Wolters derives sweeping conclusions from a strikingly limited empirical foundation.

A good romance novel is nothing without a wonderfully sweeping conclusion, and if a reader says they weren't sold on the HEA, it probably means they won't be recommending the book to a friend.

I don't have a grand sweeping conclusion, but I think Lisa's right.

It's why Yasheng Huang, a professor at MIT and author of the book Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, uses the term «Airportologists» to describe western pundits who draw sweeping conclusions about China's economy after passing through its massive terminals.

Jumping to sweeping conclusions based on a few weeks of volatile trading is poor judgment.

Hall does caution against making sweeping conclusions about how to diet from this study.

As readily available data reveal, approximately one million missionaries have been called over that time period, so Stern's sweeping conclusions are based on a sample of about 0.0024 percent of the relevant population.

Over time, experts looked askance at the sweeping conclusion, which both ignored the possibility that some other theory of gravity might have better fit the results and also didn't match general relativity very precisely after known sources of error were taken into account.

From one Israeli scientist's objection to Bedouin encroachment on the watershed of an experimental farm, he draws the sweeping conclusion that «in Israel science is political».

It's too soon to draw sweeping conclusions about the academic impact of privately financed programs that provide vouchers to help needy families send their children to private schools, the General Accounting Office concludes in a recent report.

«Although it is too early to draw sweeping conclusions, the initial indications are that the average student attending a charter school has higher achievement than he or she otherwise would,» Miss Hoxby said.

The National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academies, said in its report Friday that it is premature to draw sweeping conclusions about the effectiveness of school reform under the Public Education Reform Amendment Act (PERAA).

Of course, it's hard to draw any sweeping conclusions from these data because a lot of factors determine what the «right» teacher salary should be in any particular state (to the extent that the «right» teacher salary even exists).

But Fordham researchers refuse to draw any sweeping conclusions from their study.

SBAC is still a very new tool, so Education Matters cautions against making any sweeping conclusions based on scores alone.

Again, these charts don't, by themselves, support any sweeping conclusions about reforming teacher compensation.

«Although it is too early to draw sweeping conclusions,» Hoxby said, «the initial indications are that the average student attending a charter school has higher achievement than he or she otherwise would.»

For a car as multi-faceted and complex in character as a luxury GT, it would be foolhardy to draw any sweeping conclusions from a handful of laps around Anglesey Circuit.

He runs through the findings of his Author Earnings report — a data - gathering exercise which suggests self - published authors are matching the big - five in ebook sales and making more money in the process — and answers critics who have cast doubt over his sweeping conclusions.

While it would have been preferable to hold bonds in an RRSP during the last decade, we can't draw any sweeping conclusions from our findings.

It's impossible to make sweeping conclusions about the performance of retail investors who pick stocks, because the data are hard to get, at least compared with what's available in mutual fund databases.

Still, a very small sample (i.e., just six unowned male cats) didn't prevent him from publishing his results — making some sweeping conclusions and potentially dire recommendations.

Marriott's sweeping conclusions were particularly telling, since the apocalyptic «moment» in question just so happened to coincide with the publication of his own travel book, The Lost Tribe — which he considered inferior to his just - released novel, The Plague Race.

Images such as the one featured above are far more representative of Prince's exhibition than the image that lead to a sweeping conclusion that the entire show was a copyright infringement.

If PSU did not ask the question, on what basis did they claim to have examined «all» the evidence and that they were able to make such a sweeping conclusion?

The research finds that it's hard to make sweeping conclusions about the impact animals have on the ecosystem:

Such a sweeping conclusion can not be drawn from a single comparison.

«We were anxious to get the word out that we were doing this study,» Garvey said of the paper, which did not reach sweeping conclusions.

The report refrains from making any sweeping conclusions, but the critical eye might discern a model that is unsustainable in a stagnant economy.

The bigoted hyperbole makes sweeping conclusions about naturalized Canadians and Canadians with dual nationalities, questioning their loyalty and suggesting they can't be trusted.