Sentences with phrase «unreliable methods of»

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Additionally, the data collected are often unreliable, frequently not derived through scientific methods, and do not compare well with those from other types of manufacturing processes or from processes at different locations.

Some companies still use the UMF (Unique Manuka Factor) rating, but this is being fazed out in the industry due to being an unreliable and somewhat vague method of testing.

If the American public knew how inaccurate and unreliable these methods are, both for children and for teachers, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform.

Much of the discussion about the use of student standardized test scores to evaluate teachers has centered on how unfair the «value - added» method is to teachers because it is unreliable and can — and does — label effective teachers as ineffective too often.

These experts have said over and over and over that the method by which test scores are factored into an evaluation of how effective a teacher is are dramatically unreliable and unfair.

As Rick Hanushek has carefully demonstrated in the context of education spending adequacy lawsuits, the «professional judgment» or «expert panel» method is completely unreliable: He writes:

The primary limitation on this study was the lack of student work data due to unreliable documentation methods of the student portfolios.

Assessment experts say that the method of using student standardized scores to gauge a teacher's effectiveness is unreliable, but reformers still insist on using this «value - added» method of evaluation.

With the stock market and other methods of investment becoming highly risky and unreliable in recent times, all types of investors are now trying their hands on bond investing.

As serologic and intradermal testing has been shown to be unreliable in some cases, the preferred method of diagnosis is through an elimination diet.

«Its tests were conducted by a single individual working out of his basement who faked his credentials and whose methods and conclusions are utterly unreliable.»

It is not exactly a reliable source of accurate data due to its methods, and it was often branded as «unreliable.»

according to Aranda and Venolia, electronic records are «deeply unreliable,»... This is especially true of records that are likely filtered and / or analyzed using electronic methods instead of humans asking questions of other humans.

Often justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to meet the needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to meet «environmentalists» ideological beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these beliefs to future generations even though they do not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.

We have found that much of the literature is unreliable and that the numerical methods used in virtually all the simulation software is not adequate to resolve or estimate the true uncertainty.

Using that approach (what I called the Anomaly of Averages method) would produce a very unstable, unreliable temperature record indeed.

We both agree (I think) that most ordinary, scientifically - illiterate people on * both * sides of the debate come to their views by unscientific, unreliable methods.

The OHC data are based on the inaccurate methods of earlier decades and are therefore unreliable.

«NOAA has now decided the sea dataset will have to be replaced and revised just 18 months after it was issued, because it used unreliable methods which overstated the speed of warming»

One of the problems with the new Hadley method is that they have declared the meta - data unreliable to the point where it can be ignored or inverted, which invokes a change to that data point of the full magnitude of the supposed bucket - EIR difference: ~ 0.5 K.

According to reports, NOAA has now decided to replace the sea temperature dataset just 18 months after it was issued, because it used «unreliable methods which overstated the speed of warming.»

Calculations to resolve the anthropogenic component of CO2 are remarkably difficult for the coastal ocean, where the assumptions of the various methods (Sabine and Tanhua 2010) are not met, thereby precluding a direct calculation of the effect of anthropogenic CO2 on observed trends in coastal pH. Calculations based on mixing between an open - ocean end - member displaying the trajectories predicted from OA and the freshwater end - member are also unreliable because pH and the carbon system do not necessarily behave conservatively within the coastal zone and because the freshwater end - member may also shift into the future.

All we have so far is my one test, which shows the «listing headline» method to an unreliable indicator of actual scientific work.

NOAA has now «decided that the sea dataset will have to be replaced and substantially revised just 18 months after it was issued, because it used unreliable methods which overstated the speed of warming,» The Daily Mail learned.

From PIN codes to swipe, almost every SGS5 user shunned the fingerprint scanning method of unlocking the phone as it's highly unreliable.

Unfortunately, even as they gain experience, they continue to rely on those unreliable traditional methods of lead generation instead of tapping into their most valuable resource — their clients.