Sentences with phrase «very weak evidence»

Accordingly, the fact that more of the constraint - satisfying models have high ECS than have low ECS constitutes very weak evidence that ECS is high.

It is just very weak evidence, and weak because if it lies well within one standard deviation, it is a very probable event on the null hypothesis (no change).

We have been treated to many opportunistic hindsight «validations» of climate modeling (Pakistan, Russia, etc.) using the «consistent with» meme that most scientists would see as very weak evidence.

But some of these drugs are only effective after several months, and their use is «based on very weak evidence,» Niklas Långström, a psychiatric epidemiologist at KI, said at the press conference.

These calls are sensationalist, misguided and supported by very weak evidence at best.

Not exact matches

Well, I guess you might be able call it very very weak evidence.

and parallels, will reveal how very weak is the evidence that Jesus actually acknowledged the messiahship.

Although early studies showed that saturated fat diets with very low levels of PUFAs increase serum cholesterol, whereas other studies showed high serum cholesterol increased the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), the evidence of dietary saturated fats increasing CAD or causing premature death was weak.

Arsenal have allot of mentally weak players, and they have very little evidence of holding any leaders.

While the effect of vaccines was not analyzed as part of this study, Rzhetsky notes that the geographic clustering of autism and ID rates is evidence that if vaccines have a role, it's a very weak one as vaccinations are given uniformly across the US.

This testing is especially so in regions close to a black hole, according to Chen, because the current evidence for Einstein's general relativity — light bending by the sun, for example — mainly comes from regions where the gravitational field is very weak, or regions far away from a black hole.

Many Out of Africa supporters use this taxon as evidence that Asian and European specimens did not contribute genetically to the modern human genome, but this claim is very weak.

I've been writing about this for a while — mostly on the basis of fairly weak indirect evidence because there's very little research on the health effects of wheat vs. other grains except in celiac patients.

In fact, Vigdor explains, «the available evidence suggests that the connection between credentials and teaching effectiveness is very weak at best, and the connection between additional years of experience and teaching effectiveness, while substantial in the first few years in the classroom, attenuates over time.»

But the available evidence suggests that the connection between credentials and teaching effectiveness is very weak at best, and the connection between additional years of experience and teaching effectiveness, while substantial in the first few years in the classroom, attenuates over time.

In a recent New York Times op - ed, I argued that the case for Betsy DeVos's Secretary of Education appointment rests on a very weak track record — in particular, the evidence does not support her free market approach to school reform that relies, first and foremost, on school vouchers for private schools, as well as unregulated forms of charter schooling.

If they are different, the evidence is still very weak unless there is some evidence of bias.

While these are also noted as statistically significant, using the table below one can determine that statistical significance does not necessarily mean that such «very weak» to «weak» correlations are of much practical significance, especially if and when high - stakes decisions about teachers and their effects are to be attached to such evidence.

As Jersey Jazzman summarized very well in his post about this, the correlational evidence is very weak, the conclusions drawn by outside researchers are a stretch, and the rush to implement these measures is just as unfounded as the rush to implement VAMs for educator evaluation.

The evidence showed that high school GPA is an accurate predictor of college completion, while the SAT is very weak.

But if you look at the statistical evidence, the relationship between monetary growth and inflation is very weak.

There is very weak veterinary clinical and experimental evidence based upon a limited number of studies to indicate that adding transdermal nitroglycerine to other therapies used for management of left - sided congestive heart failure in dogs speeds the resolution of clinical signs.

In some specific contexts, they may be even higher, but evidence there is very weak; i.e. the studies that do purport to show high numbers are typically conflate causality with correlation (see point two below).

In the case of second hand tobacco smoke, the evidence is actually very weak.

Their fit is not necessarily correct, but it proves that the evidence for more persistent stopping is very weak.

That is clearly a very weak denfense since the emails he used to commit the fraud are arguably evidence of considered and deliberate acts.

Settledscience is rather generous with throwing around the word lie when the evidence he gives is very weak.

The heat lost by each warm anomaly as it passes eastwards must in part be lost into the bulk of the Atlantic water mass below, but there is good evidence also of significant upward heat flux during transit along the slope: despite microstructure observations that suggest that mixing is very weak across the Arctic halocline, heat budget estimates nevertheless yield significant vertical fluxes.

Having debated this issue with British Antarctic Survey scientists and found astonishingly that they had no evidence for the hypothesis that CO2 amplifies the orbital - induced warming once it has begun — they were left lamely saying that the data «is entirely consistent with» that hypothesis — I have to agree with Willis's characterisation of the very weak video above: it amplified rather than damped my doubts about that hypothesis.

Most of the warming in climate models is not from CO2 directly but from feedback effects, and the evidence for strong positive climate feedback on temperature is very weak (to the point of non-existence) as compared to the evidence of greenhouse gas warming (yes, individual effects like ice cover melting are undeniably positive feedback effects, the question is as to the net impact of all such effects).

is only a very weak one if the evidence is just anecdotal.