Sentences with phrase «test this hypothesis by»

A couple of B - school professors decided to test the hypothesis by reviewing employee promotions and sales records at over 200 companies.

Test hypothesis by doing an experiment; see if predictions match results 5.

4) Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment: What is your test?

Social science would test this hypothesis by careful comparison of parallel situations.

They tested their hypothesis by selecting 600 babies deemed high risk for peanut allergies, and giving half Bamba on a regular basis, while the other half avoided peanut - based foods altogether.

But not if they test the hypothesis by keeping their old caffeine and candy - spewing machine in place, sticking a «healthy» machine selling carrot sticks and fruit juice next door, and seeing which performs better, he points out.

We have tested this hypothesis by estimating genomic point mutation rates for protein - coding genes in a range of animal taxa.

Egner and Chiu tested this hypothesis by scanning the brains of participants, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI, a noninvasive, indirect measure of brain activity) as they completed the tasks.

Lesley Duncan, one of Schaller's graduate students at the University of British Columbia, tested this hypothesis by showing a group of test subjects pictures of two men.

He tested his hypothesis by cross-checking carbon - 14 ages for the lava flows against dates included in royal Hawaiian genealogies.

Jim and I plan to test this hypothesis by studying the mathematical properties that emerge during computer simulations of the neurology of olfaction.

The research team tested the hypothesis by transplanting cells onto the surface of mouse bone grafts and studying the cell behavior both in vivo — inside the animal — and in vitro — outside the body.

He tested this hypothesis by presenting queens from other colonies to workers of the same species.

The researchers tested their hypothesis by injecting a control group of mice with a diabetes - inducing compound called streptozotocin and a second group with the same compound plus ISO - 1, a MIF - inhibitor developed by the team.

We have tested this hypothesis by generating and analyzing a mouse strain that lacks the gene encoding the essential subunit of the N - methyl - d - aspartate (NMDA) receptor NR1, specifically in dentate gyrus granule cells.

Paleoanthropologists Jean - Jacques Hublin and Luke Premo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, tested this hypothesis by simulating how mating preferences alter gene flow between individuals in different groups.

We have tested this hypothesis by the following in vitro paradigm.

We will test our hypothesis by applying different mathematical techniques, including dimensionality reduction, state space analyses, and neural network modeling, on our behavioral and neural datasets.

We will test this hypothesis by recording activity in many neurons, in both mice and flies, as the animals navigate a virtual reality environment.

«Our major goal is to test this hypothesis by training women with breast cancer - related weakness using high effort plus moderate intensity exercise vs low effort combined with moderate intensity muscle exercise,» said Dr. Yue.

We tested this hypothesis by crossing DJ -1-deficient mice with mice that have similar amounts of mtDNA damage in their SNpc as aged humans (Polg mutator mice).

We tested this hypothesis by crossing DJ -1-deficient mice with mice that develop similar amounts of mtDNA damage as humans.

We tested this hypothesis by housing 2 - month - old wild - type mice with or without running wheels for 3 — 4 weeks.

We tested this hypothesis by crossing DJ - 1 knockout mice with Polg mutator mice.

Case in point: While I was in a grocery store the other day, I decided to test this hypothesis by examining the names of products.

We tested this hypothesis by calculating returns for holding periods of various lengths, conditioned on whether volatility is above or below the 85th percentile of the distribution.

Thus Mann's hockey stick is not science because the modern scientific method requires transparency so that outside researchers can test the hypothesis by reproducing results (or failing to) by experiment or their own review of the raw data and calculations and review of the methods used.

We have far more data about increasing CO2 than increasing water vapor, hence if we want to test this hypothesis by looking for a correlation between global warming and the combined effect of CO2 and H2O, a correlation with CO2 alone is more feasible than one involving water vapour.

The essence of the scientific method is to test a hypothesis by collecting data and doing experiments.

During the summer of 2002, he said, his friend Neil Young had donated his sailing schooner The Ragland which George and a team of researchers had used to test their hypothesis by actually putting iron into the ocean to see what happened.

As well as testing an hypothesis by comparing observations to the observable consequences of the hypothesis, it's also possible to «criticise» the hypothesis by questioning its internal logic, its consistency with other better understood theories or its underlying assumptions.

We test this hypothesis by combining laboratory and field CO2 experiments and data from «natural» volcanic CO2 vents.

The rest of this chapter will test that hypothesis by reference to some of its rulings in major cases that have attracted public or professional attention.

Using nationally representative data on 2,655 Black and White married couples with children, we test this hypothesis by measuring the impact of remarriage and stepchildren on the frequency of marital conflict.

In the present study, we test this hypothesis by examining epigenetic and transcriptional changes associated with naturally occurring differences in maternal care.

We aimed to test this hypothesis by testing a mediation model in which the relationships between both vulnerable and angry child modes, and pathological worry were mediated by avoidance.

Stattin and Kerr tested their hypotheses by evaluating (a) the parent's knowledge of the youth's daily activities, (b) two methods by which the parent might obtain information about youth activities — the youth's spontaneous disclosure of information to the parent and parental solicitation of information from the youth or other people, (c) the degree of parental (behavioral) «control» or limit setting that occurred, and (d) the youth's involvement in delinquent activities.

Not exact matches

In entrepreneurship, you create a hypothesis (that is, a product), and you test it by marketing it to a potential market.

Solanezumab, a drug developed by Eli Lilly that also acts on the amyloid hypothesis, failed some key clinical trials, though the company is still testing it in the pre-clinical stages of the disease.

The latest contribution to the literature, Race and Bankruptcy, by Ed Morrison (Columbia), Belisa Pang (Columbia), and Antoine Uettwiller (Imperial College Business School), tests an alternative hypothesis that pivots on a selection effect: «Financially distressed African Americans may be more likely to benefit from Chapter 13 than other consumers.»

In the early 1700s, he created the scientific method by which all science proceeds through hypothesis testing and data collection.

Science is a system of hypothesis testing and is created by man with is free will and free ability to think.

Science (by hypothesis, testing, theory, and experimentation) describes the natural processes of the universe.

If it is not supported by the experiment, it must be modified to conform to the results of the test, or be replaced with a different hypothesis.

The evidence is simply overwhelming and of various different types: the fossil record, the genetic code, experimental confirmations, structures in living organisms which are of no current use but once were, faulty «designs» that are explained by «blind evolution» but that no sentient being would create, predictions that are tested based one the hypothesis it has occurred etc..

The hypothesis that is inversely proportional to the evidence presented is the hypothesis that can be tested by repeatable experiments.in other words if you read a book cover to cover you can categorically deny that eastern mysticism is all powerful and the philosophies have mathematical inference to the derivative conclusion that one can not mistakenly ignore.

It does this, not by guess work, and certainly not by indulging personal preference or caprice, but by employing scientific methods of observation, analysis, hypothesis and verification, which are well tested in other fields of study.

The hypothesis could be tested by examining epigenetic marks in parents of kids with gay versus straight offspring, Rice said.

Repeatable in science refers to the ability to test the same hypothesis, using the same methods (typically by independent researchers), to confirm or reject said hypothesis, e.g. the repeated observation by many, many different researchers of fossils in the correct temporal and morphological relationships within the fossil record (no rabbits in the pre-Cambrian, no humans alongside dinosaurs, etc).

To do that we have to establish a way to prove an assumption by: 1) asserting a hypothesis and its components 2) testing the components for substantial supporting evidence, unsupported components go back to be refined 3) either agree after successful testing that in our shared reality the hypothesis is now supported, or that overall unsupported components may mean the hypothesis fails 4) for sake of ease many people call these tested and supported hypotheses «facts», but again that's just so that we can get on with progress.