Sentences with phrase «uses flawed studies»

Is it alarming that the AAP uses flawed studies to strongly recommend against a natural human behavior?

This is not the first time that the Pacific Research Institute has used flawed studies to attack clean energy progress, as they continue to do with the heavily - touted, heavily - debunked «Spanish study.»

Not exact matches

The green coffee bean manufacturer, Applied Food Sciences Inc., agreed to pay a $ 3.5 million settlement after the Federal Trade Commission charged the company with using the results of the flawed study to make baseless claims, the agency announced in September.

An event last Wednesday at the American Enterprise Institute showcased two new studies that use actual tax data from the IRS — rather than flawed survey data — to get a better idea of how retirees are doing financially.

Authors from studies included in the analysis take a swing at Wax and his colleagues stating that not only is their methodology flawed, but their analysis and use of data is also flawed and misleading.

This flawed study is hugely disappointing, and I'm not surprised people are using it as «proof.»

In addition to the design flaws of previous bath seats, studies showed that parents who used the seats did not observe bath seat safety.

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.

Researchers supporting co-parenting identified a number of fundamental methodological flaws of recent studies that challenge co-parenting of infants and young children: the failure to interview both parents, small and non-representative samples and use of unreliable and invalid measures, and the fact that even these studies have actually found no significant differences in child outcomes in single versus co-parenting families.

A study led by ecologists at UC Berkeley has found significant flaws in the research used to challenge the U.S. Forest Service plan to restore Sierra Nevada forests to less dense, and less fire - prone, environments.

Dr Adam Harris from UCL said: «Previous studies, which have used flawed methodologies to claim that people are optimistic across all situations and that this bias is «normal», are now in serious doubt.

The 2015 NOAA study «used flawed data, was rushed to publication in an effort to support the president's climate change agenda, and ignored NOAA's own standards for scientific study,» Smith said in a statement.

An entertaining but unnecessary solution to a problem that will never come about, from a study apparently based on a flawed premise: «None of the existing payment systems we use on Earth — like cash, credit or debit cards — could be used in space...» What about computerised electronic transfers of money?

But he and other neuroscientists say the study may be fatally flawed because it uses technology that can not reliably distinguish one type of brain wave pattern from

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

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security used a scientifically flawed study to justify its selection of Manhattan, Kansas, as the site for the proposed National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, according to a federal report obtained by The Washington Post.

The fundamental flaw in the study the egg industry has used to make this claim is that they measured FASTING lipid levels at night and not levels through out the day after egg consumption.

There are plenty of arguments that can be made on this issue, but studies are often flawed and people tend to pick out just what they want to use to prove a point just as you did, so lets keep it simple.

This is a key flaw in the Amby Burfoot article: «New Weight - Loss Study: High - Carb Diet Beats High - Fat», because the high - fat diet used in the study actually had way too much carbohydrate to trigger fat metabolism, something the article attempts to disStudy: High - Carb Diet Beats High - Fat», because the high - fat diet used in the study actually had way too much carbohydrate to trigger fat metabolism, something the article attempts to disstudy actually had way too much carbohydrate to trigger fat metabolism, something the article attempts to dismiss.

These studies have subsequently been shown to be based on flawed methodology (for example, low number of subjects and accidental use of a correlational score as an effect size — e.g. using R instead of Cohen's D)(Hattie, 2009)-RRB-.

But the study was criticized for using flawed methodology that produced a biased result.

Numerous concerns have been raised about user - interface barriers and design flaws on the math test (in a 30 + page invalidation report) and it appears there have not been any validation studies to affirm that the tests are worth using in any meaningful way.

«The study is so flawed, in the nature of the essays analyzed and, particularly, the narrow range of scores, that it can not be used to support any conclusion that Automated Essay Scoring is as reliable as human graders.

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.

Even the majorly flawed and completely unscientific study that everyone basis this theory on showed blue light only delayed going to sleep by 5 minutes when using an iPad at full brightness before bedtime.

Flawed studies that get through the formal process will soon be forgotten, unless of course, they have a legion of quacks who want to use their flawed results to advance their religious, philosphical, political, or economic agFlawed studies that get through the formal process will soon be forgotten, unless of course, they have a legion of quacks who want to use their flawed results to advance their religious, philosphical, political, or economic agflawed results to advance their religious, philosphical, political, or economic agendas.

Here lies some issues too: if a couple of studies being heavily relied upon are being used that have some unknown flaws the Bayes approach may or may not be able to correct for those, whereas direct empirical observations can better correct for such issues, and there are some other frequentist approaches, though much more tedious, can better control for such errors.

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, in 2005, subsequent peer - reviewed studies examining Christy and Spencer's data found that a missing sign and an arithmetic error meant that their findings, if not the insight of using NASA satellite readings, were flawed.

And predictably, Dominion has followed up its win with a deeply flawed study it plans to use as a basis for a new round of standby charges on customers who net meter.

Would you not tend to lump together studies that use the same flawed proxies, methodology, and co-authors to produce the same shape of curve?

Pattern Energy's use of radar, on their Kenedy ranch wind project in Texas, is a failure: thousands of birds and bats have been reported killed in the short history of this wind farm and thousands more remain unreported due to flawed mortality studies.

Dr. Bates» revelations and NOAA's obstruction certainly lend credence to what I've expected all along — that the Karl study used flawed data, was rushed to publication in an effort to support the president's climate change agenda, and ignored NOAA's own standards for scientific study.

I keep getting hit with I have to present EVERY possible flaw in any study I use when discussing skepticism.

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.

Furthermore, a 2009 climate change study from BHI and Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, another member of SPN, was debunked by Frontier Group and Wisconsin Environment, which said that BHI uses the «deeply flawed assumption that any government intervention increases aggregate costs to consumers and producers» while failing to count any of the benefits.

A major argument used by sceptics of global warming is flawed, a UK Met Office study in Nature magazine says.

«Dr. Bates» revelations and NOAA's obstruction certainly lend credence to what I've expected all along — that the Karl study used flawed data, was rushed to publication in an effort to support the president's climate change agenda, and ignored NOAA's own standards for scientific study,» Smith said in a statement on The Daily Mail's story.

For example, if a research study was so scientifically flawed that it would provide no useful knowledge, any risk to patient privacy that might result from the use or disclosure of protected health information without individuals» authorization would be too great.

Mr. Bishop suggested that the State's study was flawed because it did not use a control group and did not retest a large enough sample of the students who originally took their Class E test online.

Vanderbilt University's study of Tennessee's Voluntary Preschool Program evaluates a low quality early childhood program using a flawed methodology.