Sentences with phrase «tested against reality»

So the theories will need to be tested against reality and if it takes 1000's of years to know for sure well...... hmmm????

The various necessary constants can be arrived at empirically and then tested against reality — then plugged into the proper terms.

They reject the very notion accuracy because they claim the models make no predictions (which can be tested against reality), only projections which can never be falsified.

Marginal polls used to only come along occasionally, varied a lot, polled different groups of seats, and didn't often happen right before elections so weren't tested against reality, meaning methods weren't finessed and improved over time in the same way national polls are.

You can never conclude a hypothesis is true, only continually test it against reality and see if it survives.

Not exact matches

Thus in this essay I wish merely to propose a provisional outline of the stages in the composition of Process and Reality in the hopes that it might elicit alternate hypotheses, all of which need to be tested against each other.

The ecclesial reality of the Church is intricately interwoven with its life as a moral community — it has to constantly test its authority to be the moral voice in the world against its ability to respond with courage and conviction to the voices of the excluded, the voices from the margins.

«England is the best in the world if you have ambition to test yourself against the other teams with this reality.

That bulky winter coat could add enough thickness to «pass» the pinch test, but in reality, it may not allow the straps to fit properly against your child's body.

In technical terms this process is known as falsification: testing a hypothesis against empirical data and then dismissing it if it fails to match up with reality.

For these two men - especially Rodriguez, they will discover an ultimate test of faith, trying to find a reasoning behind the message of God, and push back against the possible reality that God might not exist at all.

Such «up in the clouds» goals as finding the uniqueness in each student get bumped against the realities of discipline, widely varying reading abilities, and looming standardized tests.

Faced with an endless cycle of memorize, drill, spit back and test, teachers have become the wardens of a new educational reality that pits the head against the heart.

But they'd have to be damned clear about how they're calculating unit sales, would have to aggregate sufficient data so that they had an error estimate in their calculation, would have to poll for lengthy periods of time, and would have to test their results against actual data to see how the model (and this is a model of earnings, not data about earnings) corresponds with reality.

Climate models are tested all the time against reality and are tracking reality well on the whole.

«In reality climate models have been tested on multicentennial time scales against paleoclimate data (see the most recent PMIP intercomparisons) and do reasonably well at simulating small Holocene climate variations, and even glacial - interglacial transitions.

The nearest there is is Richard Lindzen at MIT, but his theories have comprehensively failed the test of measurement against reality.

Maybe we have 2 theories and they need to be tested against «reality»?

We expect this sort of tool would improve efficiencies of high level, in demand courts, but to become a reality, we need to test it against more articles and the case data submitted to the court,» added Dr Lampos.

The appellants» evidence met the air of reality test and demonstrated an arguable defence on the merits in relation to the issues of whether the respondent's action was statute - barred, whether the rate of interest claimed was sustainable and whether there was any claim for breach of trust against the individual appellants.

With published test results done against an identical platform, you can have peace of mind knowing exactly what the system is capable of when it comes to real world virtual reality performance.

... After concluding his investigation, the evaluator found that mother had a «seriously impaired capacity for reality testing» and met the diagnostic criteria for a «Delusional Disorder of a persecutory (nonbizarre) type»; that the two older children had become enmeshed in mother's battle against father; that the children were not credible reporters because they were colluding with mother to generate false allegations against father; and that the extent of mother's enmeshment and role reversal with the two older children constituted a form of emotional child abuse.

Her father, Mr. C was so driven by his need for revenge against V's mother that he encouraged and reinforced V's use of pseudologia fantastica instead of providing reality testing.