Sentences with phrase «use anecdotal»

The assessor needs to be convinced that the candidate possesses the full range of leadership skills so use anecdotal evidence as much as possible.

We don't use anecdotal data, or «we think,» or «we're seeing.»

What makes the kind of evidence you use anecdotal is — the relatively small number of datasets considered — the significant share of not fully quantitative data — the large variability in the nature of the data — the large biases involved in the preservation of the data.

This problem is not going to go away as people on both sides of the issue, plus the media, love to use anecdotal information to «prove» their point.

The team may also use anecdotal information and progress data from the student's classroom teachers to further describe their skills.

Editorializing on the transgender phenomenon, the New York Times used anecdotal testimonials to present sex - change surgery as the restoration of a civil right to people long deprived of their authentic selves.

Using my anecdotal evidence to prove that formula feeders earn less makes just about as much sense as whatever it is she's trying to prove here.

Although some hardcore BLWers would disagree (likely using anecdotal evidence), I believe that spoon feeding may be a safer approach overall.

Following some research and using anecdotal evidence, we believe that this is because CREST recognises achievements in communication, team work, research and presentation, which appeals to the learning styles of a large range of students.

Following some research and using anecdotal evidence, we believe that this is because CREST Awards recognise achievements in communication, team work, research and presentation, which appeals to the learning styles of both genders.

Do I believe in using anecdotal notes and Montessori checklists, rather than traditional, graded report cards?

Historian Sir William Chester Jordan uses anecdotal as well as tree ring records to chronicle the Great Famine (his book title) which occurred between 1310 and about 1330.

Can we not sink to the level of using anecdotal evidence as the basis for science, please?

Carolyn went on to proclaim that while solos are stepping up to the plate (using anecdotal evidence of some solos in the Facebook group offering their help), legal tech is falling silent.

I'm curious as to why you haven't included Dr Dan Siegel of The Whole Brain Child and No Drama Discipline — to our family those books provide the research - backed basis for the positive parenting techniques that many of the authors propose using anecdotal evidence.

Not exact matches

While evidence is anecdotal, some employers seem set to continue drug testing all applicants and taking a hard line on use of opioids, methamphetamine, and cocaine.

Writing a blog not only creates content — whether it's service - oriented or anecdotal — which can be used in a variety of marketing strategies, such as serving as content for email newsletters or providing a call - to - action.

He said, «Other sites provide summaries on health conditions, or anecdotal experience, but Amino uses actual data and cost report forms to deliver a new era of transparency to the consumer.»

Let's play a game called: «Comparing Canadian and German Apprenticeships Using Actual Statistics, Instead of the Usual Misinformed Anecdotal BS That Passes for Analysis in Canadian PSE Policy Circles».

Use data to drive better decision - making, because it trumps any arguments that are opinion - based or anecdotal.

«Since the province doesn't monitor the use of foreign workers, we only have anecdotal evidence to go on, but we need to know if there is still widespread use of the program in the construction industry,» said Horgan.

For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the history, such as the denomination's response to the New Order of the Latter Rain.

Go look up for yourselves secular studies on how much an average (this means typical, as opposed to your very ILLOGICAL use of anecdotal evidence to draw conclusions or simply spouting the same thing you read in a combox somewhere) Christian gives of his own time and treasure to charitable causes versus an average atheist.

With respect to anecdotal impacts of using sugar substitutes, some people believe that they will trick the brain into thinking it is getting sugar and therefore derail the effort to eliminate sugar cravings.

Although chile powder is notorious for causing sneezing and coughing among those who inhale it, there is anecdotal evidence of the use of Capsicums in breathing and lung problems.

In many cases, the folk remedies for treating women are highly anecdotal and I don't know precisely how the chiles are used.

Anecdotal testimony shows that patients using Active UMF Manuka Honey directly on the skin experienced reduced scaling after 3 - 4 applications.

The anecdotal evidence of the success in stopping, and even reversing, Alzheimer's in some people using coconut oil, however, is so remarkable, that it is foolish to discount what this simple dietary oil can do.

The write - ups and anecdotal reports on using virgin coconut oil (VCO) for health purposes has sparked many health food advocates and «foodies» toward using it.

Manuka buffs will know many of the uses for Manuka Honey, but further down the page we have listed most of the applications we have heard about, based on user feedback and anecdotal evidence.

Anecdotal evidence: All the people I know who have used it have not been able to breastfeed beyond 4 months.

Although herbal teas have been used for centuries, it's important to remember a lot of the information we have about them is anecdotal.

Formal forms of assessment include Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL), DIAL - 3, authentic, anecdotal, Preschool COR (Child Observation Record)(primarily used by schools that employ the HighScope Method), Creative Curriculum Continuum, and the Meisels Work Sampling System.

There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that marijuana use doesn't have a negative impact on a child's development, but studies have conflicting results.

It's interesting, though, that you're using your own anecdotal feedback to tell me that my anecdotal feedback (which was actually done with the same level as an elementary school science project) is wrong.

Anecdotal reports, which date back to ancient Egypt have suggested the use of castor oil to stimulate labour.

Here's a quick update on the recent How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 guide: since it came out on December 9th of last year, readers have downloaded it directly from this site over 1000 times, and I've heard anecdotal reports that it's also being forwarded from...

Here's a quick update on the recent How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 guide: since it came out on December 9th of last year, readers have downloaded it directly from this site over 1000 times, and I've heard anecdotal reports that it's also being forwarded from person to person with great vigor.

«Previous studies have demonstrated an association between stress and skin symptoms, but those studies relied on small patient samples, did not use standardized tools, are anecdotal in nature, or focused their analyses on a single skin disease,» says Gil Yosopovitch, MD, Chair of the Department of Dermatology at LKSOM, Director of the Temple Itch Center, and corresponding author of the study.

She noticed immediately that most of the course materials were based on anecdotal evidence, particularly when it came to the use of plant extracts as pesticides.

«The benefits of acupuncture are well known by those who use it, but such proof is anecdotal.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that there has been an increase in the use of intravenous glutathione for skin bleaching in the UK.

«There has been lots of anecdotal evidence from teachers that students focused and behaved better while using standing desks,» added Mark Benden, Ph.D., CPE, co-researcher and director of the Texas A&M Ergonomics Center.

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence out there claiming a link between cell phone use and cancer: Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says that the brain cancer (malignant glioma) that killed O. J. Simpson's attorney, Johnnie Cochran, was the result of frequent cell phone use, based on the fact that the tumor developed on the side of the head against which he held his phone.

Casti's claim that complexity is subjective is, therefore, beside the point, although he is right to point to the confusion that arises with the use of the same word «complex» in anecdotal and formalistic contexts.

But, acting on anecdotal reports of people becoming dependent on kratom, six states, including Vermont and Indiana, have banned the sale and use of the herb.

Anecdotal evidence suggested that the fish use these to walk along lake beds.

While anecdotal evidence exists that writing a bedtime list can help one fall asleep, the Baylor study used overnight polysomnography, the «gold standard» of sleep measurement, Scullin said.

Susan Gould Fogerite, director of research for the Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the School of Health Related Professions, said that although there is widespread evidence that yoga is being used as a form of exercise by those with MS, much of the feedback has been anecdotal and there isn't much empirical data regarding its safety and efficacy.

A recent report in the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine notes that «the exact incidence of cell phone elbow is not known, but anecdotal reports and our own clinical experience indicates that its incidence parallels the rise in the use of cell phones and computer workstations.»