Sentences with phrase «used flawed methods»

Soon and his colleagues said the report's authors used flawed methods to project future polar bear populations.

The review found that many studies had used flawed methods, subjecting marine creatures to sudden increases in carbon dioxide that would never be experienced in real life.

Not exact matches

The inherent flaw in this method is habituation: The brain gets used to new odors, and stops responding to them as the novelty decreases.

I have flaws and the lens typically used for me when I criticize, contextualize, or theorize on any scripture is mostly through my own past experiences that shape my methods of thought and reasoning.

Just because radiocarbon dating has flaws does not mean the dozen other methods for dating objects are automatically bogus which is why the scientific community believes the 4.5 billion year age of the earth, it's because they did not use just a single method of testing to estimate that age, they used several different methods which all confirmed the same approximate age.

Critics of cry - it - out methods argue that these studies are flawed — they don't have the right measures of harm, they fail to determine whether the parents actually used cry - it - out methods to sleep train their babies, and they rely on parents» reports instead of observation.

A commonly used drug - screening method that relies on the enzyme that gives fireflies their glow may be flawed.

Two recent studies pointed to possible flaws in the methods used to identify irisin, with commercially available antibodies.

Loscalzo can reel off ways that his results could be flawed — the sprawling incompleteness of the data on protein - protein interactions is a major concern, but so are the methods used to gather the data, which are the best currently possible but far from perfect.

This model has been in use for a good many years and works well for many purposes, but has the flaw that modern and trendy Agile methods try to avoid - it's all too easy to produce something huge (and hugely expensive) before any users have seen it at all.

Btw, interesting that you recognize the inherent flaws in the methods used to measure teachers, including this supposed «normal» first few years of a new standard or a new test.

Even though it seemingly makes sense to look at individual gains attributable to particular teachers, this method is fundamentally flawed due to the nature of current state tests, as well as the methods used to assign students to teachers and other reasons.

However, this method is flawed when we produce a list of items that students must include, the specific font to use, the number of cited sources, etc..

Many of those evaluations — in New York City, Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., as well as in the states of Florida, Minnesota, and Louisiana — reported a modest increase or neutral impact on student achievement and graduation rates.9 The findings of some of these studies, however, have more recently been called into question as methodological flaws were discovered when adding additional years or replicating the study.10 As a result, recent voucher program evaluations employ more rigorous research methods such as experimental and quasi-experimental designs and refine their use of certain variables.

You could conclude that Apple users are more active web surfers, or the methods used to get these conclusions have some basic flaws.

Using her time - tested and scientifically - backed brand of positive reinforcement training methodology, Stilwell not only helps us understand once and for all why outdated and dangerous punishment - based methods are so flawed, but also how and why to replace them with more effective and long - lasting positive solutions that create a bond between man and dog based on mutual trust, respect and love.

«Linda brings tremendous academic credentials and extensive training to her work, but what really makes her special is her passionate devotion to helping the dog - owning community understand the benefits and effectiveness of using positive training methods as opposed to flawed compulsion and dominance - based techniques.»

This isn't the first time RSS has suggested a correction that S&C have adopted, but I also don't see RSS making specific criticisms of / finding flaws with the methods S&C use, either — just differing opinions on what is better.

Updated, July 23, 1:40 p.m. A new study of methods used to track Antarctic sea ice trends has raised important questions about whether recent increases in ice there are, to a significant extent, an illusion created by flawed analysis of data collected by a series of satellites.

Of course, even if your various studies did support each other it would not mean that their conclusions were valid, if the statistical inference methods used in all of them were seriously flawed, as I have reason to believe.

However from what I have read and what I have seen, much of the actual science seems to be flawed, and is heavily weighted on assumptions which are in turn based on assumptions, based on sketchy data, in which much of the methods used are questionable.

It's example data showing it only takes a few «blips» deviation from a longterm trend to give the illusion that the longterm warming has stopped if the flawed «OLS since 1997» method is used.

The unwillingness to accept the outcome of logic is to me a fatally flawed as this is the very method of reasoning that you claim to use, except, it seems, when it does not agree with your illogical anthropogenic climate change denialism.

If a flawed method happens to give a nearly - correct answer under specific circumstances (i.e., using the available data), it's still a flawed method.

This thread is about how the method used by Lewandowski is flawed.

One thing that is very clear is that the IPCC has used flawed statistical methods that bias their estimates to the high side.

They concluded that the IPCC's methods were flawed and should not be used as a basis for policy decisions.

But other researchers quickly published work saying that the methods he had used to analyze the data were flawed and that his theory made assumptions that were inconsistent with known facts.

Apple worked hard to reverse the decision of Consumer Reports, as the company pinpointed a flaw in the testing method used to gauge the MacBook Pro's battery life.

I use all of these methods every time because no one source is completely reliable or without flaws.