Sentences with phrase «validity of the conclusions»

Additional research with a more diverse sample is needed to verify the replicability and validity of conclusions drawn here.

In contrast, value - added scores are typically computed for teachers who work in different schools — comparisons that pose special challenges to the validity of conclusions drawn.

But a review of Horn's data reveals a number of problems, raising serious questions about the validity of his conclusions and justification for his recommendations.

The e-mail discussion that follows proceeds along two tracks, one examining the validity of the conclusions in the influential «stabilization wedges» paper that Socolow co-authored with Stephen Pacala in 2004, the other offering reactions to Socolow's ideas on how to advance sustainable energy choices in an era of deep polarization and economic malaise.

The exchange explores both the validity of the conclusions in the original 2004 paper and reactions to Socolow's proposals for gaining traction in an era of deep polarization and economic malaise.

The article has been the subject of considerable e-mail discussion between one of the authors and others who questioned the authorsí analysis and doubted the validity of their conclusions.

However, unlike Lord Mance, he concluded that there were questions raised about the validity of its conclusions.

Would you have a different view of the validity of the conclusion if the fine (assuming it is paid) weren't seemingly headed for the federal gov» t's general fund, but instead to some fund whose ostensible purpose relates to preventing the reccurence of the events in the case?

But to my mind that vitiates the validity of the conclusion, because it seems to fail to take into account the cost overruns and delays incurred by many conventional projects which add significantly to their cost,» says Dunsky.

While his research, and hence his opinion, could be regarded as scientific in the very broad sense of that word, as used in McIntosh, Dr. Totten did not pretend to employ the scientific method and did not depend on adherence to that methodology for the validity of his conclusions.

The use of credible placebo control groups for CBGT and phenelzine (educational supportive therapy and pill placebo, respectively) enhances the validity of the conclusion that the 2 primary therapies being tested were genuinely effective in alleviating social phobia.

A class of research designs in which program (or treatment) and comparison groups are selected non randomly but in which some controls are introduced to minimize threats to the validity of conclusions.