Sentences with phrase «using unreliable methods»

Through interviews and site visits, Byrd noticed that firms were often using unreliable methods for capturing billable time.

«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»

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.

Not exact matches

The tools commonly used today are based on the gene overlap method which is very limited and unreliable.

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.

They are not systematic, can not be counted, can not be analyzed using quantitative methods, and may arise from sources that are unreliable.

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.

Methods that use test scores to evaluate teachers, including the currently popular «value added» calculations, have also proved highly unreliable.

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.

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.

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.»