Sentences with phrase «testing competing theories»

Hence, the emphasis on the weight, number and height of scientific evidence articles, and expertise, rather than on the process of testing competing theories.

By developing treatments for dyscalculia, Butterworth hoped to test competing theories about the cognitive basis of numeracy.

To test these competing theories, researchers applied a weight to people's limbs to push them into a stretched position.

Not exact matches

The extremely strong gravity of a massive neutron star in orbit with a companion white dwarf star puts competing theories of gravity to a test more stringent than any available before

But note that the shared observational core, against which competing theories may be tested, is not in general free from theoretical interpretation.

A new computational method, published in the journal Systematic Biology, tested two competing theories about how species came to live where they do and found strong evidence for jump dispersal, especially for island species.

Measurements of the depth of the dimples at later times could test how quickly the energy scale of inflation changed, which would test competing models of the theory, Kogut said.

Juicy Excerpt: Predictions are a way of testing the merit of competing theories.

Predictions are a way of testing the merit of competing theories.

Whilst teachers were out being tested, pupils competed in a road safety quiz based on theory test questions to see just how much they knew about the rules of the road.

First, the outcomes were measured in children who played little role in generating the family's social status, and therefore offered a fairly clean test of competing theories.