Sentences with phrase «tests are useless»

These tests are useless and unscientific.

Gov. Bobby Jindal tried to block the test and the Common Core standards, saying they represented federal overreach, and some parents have chosen to boycott the tests based on political convictions or a concern the tests are useless or even harmful.

We prefer this means of testing as blood tests will give many false positives in the presence of a leaky gut and scratch tests are useless for food reactions.

Drug testing is useless when all it reveals is that a team member «medicated» with prescription pot at home over the weekend.

Without knowing what foods they were using for testing, that test is useless.

There is a growing movement in our country that testing is useless or even harmful.

The science is clear: Forcing the youngest students to take these tests is both useless and developmentally inappropriate.

Let us ignore the fact that standardized testing is useless.

This is because of the small sample size, the test is having a too small of power to be able to reject H0 and therefore the test is useless and the value of the «proof» of H0 is also null.

When I was at LexisNexis, I thought CDI was the single most overrated organization in the company and that their testing was useless.

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It's so much easier to administer and grade a useless multiple choice test and to inflate every kids» grades for their college applications than it is to create challenging course work that excites, engages, and challenges them.

Kim said there were two additional, larger tunnels that remain «in a very good condition» at the Punggye - ri test site beyond the existing one, which experts have said had collapsed after repeated explosions, rendering much of the site useless.

Kim said there were two additional, larger tunnels that remain «alive and well» at the Punggye - ri test site beyond the existing one, which experts have said had collapsed after repeated explosions, rendering much of the site useless.

Scientists, like mechanics, are in the business of finding testable explanations for specific phenomena in reality, an explanation you can not test, that is compatible with any situation regardless of the facts, is a useless explanation.

The Supreme Court has not provided any such set of principles, and the «test» it has handed down (which is binding on the lower courts that must decide most of the cases) is worse than useless.

Evolution has been relentlessly tested and confirmed and is further validated in direct applications ranging from medicine to agriculture to engineering (the same is true of all the other relevant scientific disciplines which creationism requires to be so fundamentally flawed as to be effectively useless, i.e. physics, chemistry, geology, paleontology, astronomy, etc).

Theology is a useless test.

Weiz and Keogh state: «Science is useless as a tool to discover or evaluate any truth that can not be tested experimentally.»

I know he's done plenty of stupid things before, and his manager's testimony indicates Jones» support system is / was useless, but taking an oral steroid at a time when it won't enhance your performance, but will cause you to fail a drug test, seems over the top.

He's totally useless around the house, he'd walk around that laundry hamper 25 times; I've done that as a test.

Every product the store stocks has been thoroughly researched and / or tested by the owners, which gives me peace of mind that I am not wasting money on yet another useless or poorly made baby product (there are an abundance of such out there).

The last Conservative government introduced a «fit and proper» person test that was so vague as to be almost useless.

Do not get a Magnesium serum test; that's the useless one.

My first inclination is to assume that your provider ordered an analog test (clinically useless and inaccurate) instead of a calculated free T.

I do not have a family history of cholesterol type issues, so to me that's a useless, non-indicative «test».

A «direct» free testosterone test is clinically useless.

Typically, most providers order the direct, free testosterone test which is clinically useless.

The accuracy of this test still has room for improvement, as it can vary depending on the time of day and other factors, but it is a much better indication of heart disease risk than a cholesterol test (which is practically useless for determining heart disease risk).

However, most doctors only test for TSH, which is considered by many thyroid professionals to be near useless when analyzing one's thyroid health.

This test is clinically useless.

218: Dr. Justin Marchegiani - Is Food Allergy Testing Useless?

Many tests are limited or useless.

That is from a «direct» or analog test which is clinically useless.

Testing Mag in the blood serum is useless.

Whilst most free dating and singles sites suffer (as a consequesnce of being free - ie lack of resources and manpower) 101 has managed to do the impossible and keep its membership 98 % free from time wasters and spammers - something we found by testing them, makes most free dating site we tested useless.

Collaborate: Knowledge alone is useless unless tested or applied with other people in the real world.

Which is apt to put even more ill - considered pressure on graduation rates or else throw states back to SAT and ACT results even when those are useless for students who don't take the tests.

In this session, participants will learn about what makes some assessments better than others, why student progress measures are almost entirely useless, why most tests will never produce useful diagnostic information on students, and why most school assessment systems do not do the things they are intended to do.

This is counter to effective teaching and learning, and it renders the test useless.»

For older children, the overuse of high - stakes testing is just as useless and damaging.

They argue that «teaching to the test» is a misuse of educational time, stresses children out (some call testing «abuse») and is a poor indicator of student academic ability and teacher effectiveness.Along the way, they've convinced their children these tests are frightening, useless and bad for them, and urged students to skip them.

I know my former colleagues in the General Assembly will be extremely upset to learn that someone of Paul's caliber finds the Connecticut test so useless that he trashes them in a nationally respected blog.

The «Big Test» is USELESS as a tool to evaluate teacher or school performance.

The choice is simple: Do we want deeper, more individualized learning for our students or more useless multiple - choice tests?

The time is now for policymakers to stop wasting hundreds of millions of dollars, and thousands of school hours, on a useless standardized testing scheme; and to instead invest our scarce public dollars in programs that actually ensure that public schools are have the capacity to support and prepare students to have more fulfilling and successful lives.

Test scores derived from tests that have no demonstrated technical adequacy are useless data points, and plans to collect evidence of validity and reliability provide no assurance that technical adequacy will be established.»

In fact, it was the SBE that brought us AIMS, PARCC, and every other useless standardized test that has literally accomplished nothing in improving student achievement in Arizona.

As diagnostic tools, most large - scale tests are blunt, imprecise, and often useless — but most states claim that diagnosis is a reason for their tests.

If I could ask the superintendant only two questions, they would be these: Why does it not seem to affect your opinion of standardized testing when you see, for example, hundreds of the very best educators in the school district you administer stand up and say these tests are, at best, useless, and more likely do damage to our students?

blog April 21st) Having a rally after testing is almost done is useless and another example of grandstanding.