Sentences with phrase «using subjective data»

Even when using subjective data, Eden's arguments don't stand up to scrutiny, a point made by Daniel Losen of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA during testimony at a December hearing held by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights at which Eden also testified.

Not exact matches

Depending on the scope and purpose of the research, happiness is often measured using objective indicators (data on crime, income, civic engagement and health) and subjective methods, such as asking people how frequently they experience positive and negative emotions.

The choice to use contraceptives or to support legislation limiting industrial emissions may be based in part on scientific data, but the choice itself is subjective.

«Although some of the data used to compile the rankings is subjective in its reporting, the report highlights the fact that community health is the responsibility of the entire public health system comprised of individuals, schools, non-profits, faith - based organizations, and public safety, as well as health care providers,» Gilmore said.

Researchers could use self - reporting to gather data, but self - reported surveys — the only data presented in the Yarhouse and Stanton study — can be highly subjective and notoriously unreliable.

Lisa contributed to the first published research study to use subjective and objective data to examine the acute and longitudinal effects of a school based yoga intervention in young children.

Lisa contributed to the first research study to use subjective and objective data to examine the acute and longitudinal effects of a school based yoga intervention in young children.

We must use the direct and available information on teacher effectiveness that comes from objective achievement data and subjective evaluations for both administrators and teachers to guide rewards and management decisions.

And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.

In this study, researchers Jason A. Grissom and Susanna Loeb offer new evidence on principals» subjective evaluations of their teachers» effectiveness using two sources of data from Read more about Two New Studies show Principals Reluctant to give Low Ratings on Teacher Evaluations -LSB-...]

Using data from a midsize Florida school district, this paper explores both questions by calculating teachers» «value added» and comparing those outcomes with subjective ratings of teachers by school principals.

Simulated index data is based on a combination of performance of widely used total return asset class - specific indexes and subjective judgement taking into account the current economic environment.

Personally, I am all for scientific discourse, but not one that uses very subjective data (as clearly pointed out in the re-analysis of data at the NOAA Hurricane Research Center) as strength of the argument.

This is plagued by subjective, manual adjustments that in many cases can not be justified, sites with years of missing data, sites that should not have been used because of Urban contamination, and a large warming bias.

I propose a different method of hypothesis testing that is independent of subjective opinions and uses only hard data — regression analysis using analytic geometry and matrix algebra.

Another presenter at the session, Paul Chang, a project scientist who studies satellite ocean surface wind data at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Md., said that the current method that is largely used by U.S. scientists in this area of research, known as the Dvorak technique, employs satellite imagery to estimate tropical cyclone intensity but is imprecise and subjective.

(2) thou shalt not fudge the data (3) thou shalt not invent arbitrary statistical methods to suit thy data (4) thou shalt not indulge in any form of bias e.g. thou shalt not employ incomplete, highly selective, subjective literature reviews (6) in the interests of transparency and replication thou shalt not hide the data or code (7) thou shalt not make vague or exaggerated statements unsupported by evidence (8) thou shalt not tolerate actual or potential conflicts of interest (9) thou shalt not allow political interference to compromise scientific integrity (10) thou shalt not use unvalidated computer models (11) Thy university shall insulate undergraduate fees from research expenses and require research to be self supporting independent of the teaching.

(2) thou shalt not fudge the data (3) thou shalt not invent arbitrary statistical methods to suit thy data (4) thou shalt not indulge in any form of bias e.g. thou shalt not employ incomplete, highly selective, subjective literature reviews (5) thou shalt not exaggerate (6) in the interests of transparency and replication thou shalt not hide the data or code (7) thou shalt not make vague statements unsupported by evidence (8) thou shalt not tolerate actual or potential conflicts of interest (9) thou shalt not allow political interference to compromise scientific integrity (10) thou shalt not use unvalidated computer models

Provided there is objective and subjective data to support the final conclusions, the use of specific terms and phrases is not central to the quality of an FAE Report.

Australian and US data from a large multi-instrument comparison survey were used to conduct tests of convergent, predictive and content validity using as comparators five other multi-attribute utility (MAU) instruments — the EQ - 5D, SF - 6D, Health Utilities Index (HUI) 3, 15D and the Quality of Well - Being (QWB)-- as well as four non-utility instruments — the SF - 36 and three measures of subjective well - being (SWB).

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, results from a path analysis showed that, although parenting styles were not directly linked with college enrollment, they were indirectly associated with college enrollment via their prior associations with a number of variables, including young adults» subjective probability of completing college, time preferences, academic achievement, cognitive ability, and parental expectations.