Sentences with phrase «valid observations of»

«I have read your article and believe it is a very valid observation of the data as reported.

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Until this study, the first of its kind to use in - person and computer - assisted observation to measure the commercial - watching habits of 376 adults, no valid research had been done on the topic.

All of the posts that itemize why Islam is dangerous and hypocritical have very valid observations.

I think his observations are valid; I am not an evangelical Christian but I have, at one point or another, heard ALL of these terms and practices he describes from friends, acquaintances, and commentators on boards like this one who are «born again.»

Limited observation, limited procedure, and limited hypothesis have been often regarded as univerally valid, although some schools of thought are realizing the folly of this assumption.

My observation reflects my history with an abusive church where public displays of spirituality were often used as a means of control and as such my comment was perfectly valid.

His observation is even more valid for theology, given the theologian's self - conscious use of mythological and narrative materials.

The valid element in Marx's critique includes both the observation of the universal sociological conditioning of religious life, and the charge that frequently religion serves the interests of the ruling classes.

While on one side not all valid and potentially useful observations should be considered scientific per say, there are publications outside of AI and biology which present discourse on the biological analogs seen in cosmology.

Continuing to refer to it as magic action is simply your way of downplaying a valid observation.

While so much of the NBC is based on subjective feelings, for the discussion to get anywhere I think it's important to acknowledge that it is rooted in some valid observation.

However, this simple observation is only valid at the level of classical physics — the laws and principles that appear to explain the physics of relatively large objects at human scale.

With current observations suggesting that dark energy comprises more than 70 percent of the matter - energy density of the present - day universe, astronomers say that measuring the apparent shapes and the distribution of galaxies in the Universe will constrain the nature of dark energy and allow them to examine whether the general theory of relativity is still a valid description of gravitation on scales of billions of light years.

Evolution is a valid scientific theory for the origin of species that has been repeatedly tested and verified through observation, formulation of testable statements to explain those observations, and controlled experiments or additional observations to find out whether these ideas are right or wrong.

Classroom observations thus provide the most valid information on the educational experiences of young children.

But the nature of some variables can make it difficult to make valid observations under standardised conditions.

Child - level assessment data means the data collected by an agency on an individual child from one or more valid and reliable assessments of a child's status and progress, including but not limited to direct assessment, structured observations, checklists, staff or parent report measures, and portfolio records or work samples.

First of all, 44 observations is a very small sample, so drawing any strong, statistically valid conclusions is at best difficult, at worst misleading.

In the very next sentence, he points out that the MET project has two stated premises guiding its work — that, whenever feasible, teacher evaluations should be based «to a significant extent» on student test score gains; and that other components of evaluations (such as observations), in order to be considered valid, must be correlated with test score gains.

[1] Teacher observations conducted by principals that occur once or twice a year and consist of rating teachers on observable behaviors and characteristics have not proved valid.

The observation that Amazon pays traditional publishers based on a wholesale reduction of list, but sells those books at a substantial discount from list, is a valid one... and in fact, we built that assumption into our spreadsheets and pie charts.

From a strict operating point of view, this observation seems quite valid.

If this is valid (and I think it is), that places the observations well within the modified envelope, regardless of which product you favour.

Science, however, is based on the correspondence theory of truth, i.e. a theory is valid only to the extent it corresponds to observations of the natural world.

Steven Mosher made a valid observation lately, that impartial analysts will consider the possibility that the data is explained by lack of GHE.

So, if you (or Mr. Monckton) want to twist the OT around so that Genesis doesn't disagree with scientific observation, or believe in a version of an Abrahamic religion that treats it as poetry and metaphor and not fact, I could care less, as long as you don't try to replace our valid epistemological, religion - neutral truths with the twisted exegetic stuff or metaphoric extrapolations and use it as the basis of political or scientific decisioning or dedicate your work to Jesus or preface your conclusions with Inshallah!

The two periods are of different length, and at different temperature levels, with different error bars, and we already know from Cowtan & Way and other basic observations that the so - called «global» dataset isn't representative of the scale of the change but tends to minimize differences: you can't simply subtract one rate from the other and get a valid result.

Valid science is based on correspondence with observations of the natural world, not consensus anyway.

Kuhnkat observation is quite right when he says to Steve: «your characterization of yourself is not accepted by those with whom you spar over valid scientific activity.»

Well you now seem to realise that observations are just as valid as experiments; and, of course the scientific method does have to vary from one discipline to another according to what is possible.

If the observation mentioned in 3) were to be taken as valid of course.

And if it is adjustment, then which adjustment — adjusting for e.g. a change in time of observation is definitely a valid thing to do.

Since the scaling factor used is based purely on simulations by CMIP5 models, rather than on observations, the estimate is only valid if those simulations realistically reproduce the spatiotemporal pattern of actual warming for both SST and near - surface air temperature (tas), and changes in sea - ice cover.

Unless you had a remarkably gradual shift in time of observation for LIG max / min starting in 1960 I don't believe that is a valid conclusion.

Attribution outlines in IPCC WG1 AR 5 SPM cover eighteen arguments, each one valid and backed by observations, and each one the simplest, most parsimonious of exception, most universal explanation for that data available; if anything, it errs on the side of least drama, and still remains stark and damning of current emission practices.

These observations are valid but what they demonstrate is the nucleation of water droplets made visible by Mie scattering.

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Is the truth that scenarios and observation datasets have enough internal uncertainty that ALL of them are equally valid at this time?

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

It is well known that one can not draw valid statistical inferences from such a small number of observations.

This is a pity because the piece covers a lot of ground and makes quite a number of valid observations otherwise, but the record must be set straight.

Maternal report of children's TV viewing may produce slight overestimates of TV - viewing hours when compared with daily logs and direct observation.39 - 41 Although logs and direct observation may theoretically be more valid measures of TV - viewing time, obtaining these measures could influence TV - viewing behavior.

With regard to the sample size required for valid application of this modeling approach, we are hesitant to speak of sufficient sample sizes, since a large number of observations with little score variation over time (as in our second empirical application) does not necessarily provide richer information than a smaller sample with more fluctuations.

The observation of child behavior has to be made in ecologically valid contexts.

For each participant, absolute difference scores were summed to a weekly difference score, and divided by the number of valid observations (to control for missing days).

«If an employee is offended instead of accepting that the other person has made a valid observation, she has just killed her accountability,» points out Miller.