Sentences with phrase «tested against the evidence»

This second argument rests on the assumption that capital punishment does in fact reduce the incidence of capital crimes — a presupposition that must be tested against the evidence.

The Conversation's FactCheck team will be in Townsville during the Queensland election campaign, keeping track of politicians» claims and working with academics to test them against the evidence.

«Governments have seemed unwilling to have a key school reform rigorously tested against the evidence, and too often the critics have also wanted to make their case without reference to the emerging data on how structural change is impacting on attainment and value added.

Science lives for the «falsifiable hypothesis» — a claim that can be tested against the evidence — and that is what the paper by Hansen and his colleagues offered up.

Not exact matches

While other firms play catchup with a reactive approach, Hagens Berman has become a proactive pioneer — testing vehicles, effecting scientific evidence of new fraud and leading the pack against automakers who violate the law.

But the claims of religion which touch upon things which can be observed and tested in the real world can be proven true or untrue as the evidence for or against those things is discovered.

What appears from a Whiteheadian point of view to be truly postmodern is the emergence of new root metaphors or paradigms, radically thought through, and rigorously tested against the whole range of evidence.

The scientific method argument could be used against the M - Theory because some of the required evidence to prove the theory has no possible testing.

a. Evolution, as a science, is based upon testing ideas against evidence.

= > well good to see you understand that the odds of being right about the family are stacked against you based on your evidence and best tools available for testing.

He has directly entered scientific fields with hypotheses suggested by his metaphysics, proposed testable hypotheses, and himself tested them against the empirical evidence.

The Conversation's FactCheck team will be in Adelaide for the next two weeks, working with academics to test politicians» claims against the evidence as South Australians prepare to vote on March 17.

This is because the evidence provided by tigereyepi in support of the allegations against the said Judge is not sufficient to meet the Prima Facie test either in relation to the allegation of bribery or ex-parte communication between the Judge and the Petitioner on a judicial matter pending before him, contrary to the Code of Conduct for Judges and Magistrates of Ghana (CCJMG).

Lawyers believe the Home Office is desperate for none of their claims to be tested in court because the evidence against the students would not be strong enough.

It came as something of a shock, therefore, when Carey tested the conventional wisdom against empirical evidence.

Now a team led by Matthias Troyer of ETH Zurich in Switzerland has tested a D - Wave Two computer against a conventional machine running an optimised algorithm — and found no evidence of superior performance in the quantum device.

Drug companies typically test new products against placebos rather than head - to - head against other drugs, so doctors don't get good evidence about which drug is the better choice.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)-- not part of WADA — for instance, built a 2004 doping case against sprinter Michelle Collins in part on indirect evidence, including years of urine tests that showed «extreme fluctuations» in her testosterone levels.

«Improvised naloxone nasal sprays lack evidence of absorption and effect: As the US FDA approves nasal Narcan, researchers warn against using poorly - tested drug delivery systems.»

Joseph Kable at the University of Pennsylvania and his colleagues have tested the popular Luminosity brain - training program from Lumos Labs in San Francisco, California, against other computer games and found no evidence that it is any better at improving your thinking skills.

The only evidence against the Maguire Seven were thin - layer chromatography tests, carried out at the RARDE, which seemed to show that the Maguires had handled some nitroglycerine.

A wealth of observational evidence made it possible to test the theory against a cosmic instead of a local background.

But we must always build our hypotheses on, and test them against, the hard evidence: the fossils, comparative anatomy and physiology, and genetics.

He sensibly concluded his paper saying that this was all only speculation — a «hypothesis to be discussed and tested against further lines of evidence».

An analysis of published studies found no evidence that low - dose aspirin buffers against cognitive decline or dementia or improves cognitive test scores.

When we look to test - based evidence — and look no further — to decide whether choice «works,» we are making two rather extraordinary, unquestioned assumptions: that the sole purpose of schooling is to raise test scores, and that district schools have a place of privilege against which all other models must justify themselves.

But we find little evidence of a public backlash against Common Core and test - based accountability, at least on the basis of new information about local school district rankings.

For example, although there is evidence of test score gains, our committee cautioned against premature causal explanations or policy advice based on impressionistic evidence.

Education Trust President Kati Haycock put it perfectly when she stated that the evidence for Tucker's «assertions» were «weak» and ignored the fact that these groups have «fought against the misuse of tests for decades».

Researchers issued a strong caution against using what they called the «modest improvement» in test scores over the past four years as evidence that mayoral control had improved learning in District schools.

On isolating teacher effects: «Inferring teacher competence from test scores requires the isolation of teaching effects from other major influences on student test performance,» while «the task is to support an interpretation of student test performance as reflecting teacher competence by providing evidence against plausible rival hypotheses or interpretation.»

Access shall be provided to the extent required to carry out a program of IT inspection (to include vulnerability testing), investigation and audit to safeguard against threats and hazards to the integrity, availability and confidentiality of DOT data or to the function of information technology systems operated on behalf of DOT, and to preserve evidence of computer crime.

And yet back - to - back testing against an M4 Competition revealed that the «CS» turns in even more instantly and keeps its body more level during hard cornering, with better vertical body control and less float over really testing lumps and bumps, but without any greater harshness of ride, shortage of compliance or evidence of bump - steer.

The second test looked for antibodies in the pet's blood directed against leptospira — evidence the organism was or had been present.

This test measures factors similar to the Coombs test — evidence that your dog or cat is producing antibodies against its own tissue (In this case, antibodies against components of the nuclei of its cells).

SupMat 9 then more or less concedes that the sites in the 2006 regional chronology meet the common signal test of Briffa et al 2008, but adduce arguments against their inclusion that are nowhere in evidence in Briffa et al 2008:

Denying climate change isn't scepticism — it's «motivated reasoning» True sceptics test a hypothesis against the evidence, but climate sceptics refuse to accept anything that contradicts their beliefs

Scientific theories are tested, and stand or fall, against the evidence.

Arrayed against the underdogs is a collection of evidence built over 150 years and through hundreds of thousands of tests, both experimental and applied.

karly @ 341, regardless of his qualifications, Steel derived a massively flawed theory which he has not tested in any appreciable way against empirical evidence.

If you don't test and get evidence, for or against, it isn't science.

Data offer the only solid ground for all these tasks, and failure to rely upon, and test against, evidence from data renders inferences about hypothesized dynamics worthless.»

The only way to get an accurate picture is through the work of many scientists, peer reviewed and scrutinized over decades and tested against multiple lines of evidence.

The test for reversing the decision at first instance was whether the admission into evidence of the Wikileaks document, when weighed against other evidence, could have made a difference to the court's decision.

[127] Professor Piché in her text Fairness in Class Action Settlements, supra at pp. 179 - 80 summarizes the various factors for the settlement approval test into seven factors; i.e.: (1) judicial risk analysis: likelihood of recovery, or likelihood of success on the merits weighed against amount and form of settlement relief; (2) future expense, complexity and likely duration of litigation; (3) class reaction: number and nature of objections; (4) recommendations and experience of counsel and opinion of interested persons; (5) adequacy of representation: good faith and absence of collusion; (6) discovery evidence sufficient for «effective representation» and (7) adequacy of notice of proposed settlement to absent class members.

(6) the resulting need for a right of the accused to a full preliminary inquiry to test the sources of evidence, instead of governments working towards its abolition, which would remove an important safeguard against wrongful convictions;

It's a process of finding the elements of each claim and defense, and testing them against available facts and evidence.

That evidence is never tested under cross examination nor can it even be argued against (say in closing argument) since the Judge's analysis only gets revealed for the first time in the actual decision.

Any evidence gathered by officers during a roadside sobriety or breath test can be used against you once you make your way to court.

However, an experienced Massachusetts lawyer will say it's still better to refuse a breath test, since, under MA law, the evidence of the refusal can not be used against you in court.