Sentences with phrase «tests hypothetical models»

Science is only useful when it asks the right questions, openly tests hypothetical models with honesty and integrity and accepts the conclusion with the understanding that «not false» is not the same «true».

Not exact matches

Professor Mojena offers a hypothetical backtest of the timing model since 1970 and a live investing test since 1990 based on the S&P 500 Index (with dividends).

These are important tests because theorists have constructed many hypothetical models that put the Standard Model in a broader framework, and many of these predict multiple bosons or deviations from the usual couplings.

Using the results of their statistical analyses, the researchers then modelled a set of hypothetical flowers, whose attractiveness to hoverflies were then tested in Bangalore, Sikkim and Uppsala.

It's why the use of VAM (Value Added Measures) can not contribute valid or reliable data to a teacher's effectiveness rating — because VAM is a predictive model based on comparing a set of actual student test scores against a hypothetical group of scores.

They tested their model against the Earth's temperature records since 1850 — and then ran it again, this time with a hypothetical forest - free world.

Using a similar logic, we first tested our hypothetical topographic model of the functional - anatomic organization of brain networks subserving social cognition (Fig. 1).