Sentences with phrase «weak evidence»

To date, only weak evidence relates job satisfaction to work productivity while much stronger evidence shows a positive correlation between psychological well - being and work performance.

Likewise, advocates for smoking bans should be more candid about the limits of the arguments when interventions depend on weak evidence.

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

It may be possible to keep less serious sex crime cases, with weak evidence, off the record or prevent serious immigration consequences.

He's been saying that climate science is alarm - driven for years, but this opinion presents pretty weak evidence of that.

Children reported significantly higher levels of maternal warmth and weaker evidence of less mother hostility when fathers have ADHD (See Table 4).

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).

However, there appears to be only weak evidence that these characteristics consistently and positively influence student learning.

Hatzes first removed the strongest of any periodic signals, not necessarily just those tied to the star's rotation, and found only weak evidence for Bb.

They also found weak evidence that botulinum toxin, the anti-seizure drugs pregabalin and oxcarbazepine, as well as drugs classified as tricyclic antidepressants and atypical opioids were probably effective in reducing pain.

While GEV shape parameter estimates are predominately negative, qualitatively showing weak evidence for the Fréchet form of the GEV distribution, field significant differences from the Gumbel distribution in the region are not found.

There is also weaker evidence that velocity - specificity occurs after constant load training (Kaneko et al. 1983; Aaagaard et al. 1994; 1996; Moss et al. 1997; Ingebrigtsen et al. 2009).

They ignored weak evidence of the planet's existence stretching back to 2013 in favor of stronger observations over the subsequent three years, factoring in other studies of the star stretching back 16 years.

The «Redefine» paper's key message was quite limited, he says: The current threshold of 0.05 yields weaker evidence than many people realize, and if it's going to be dropped, 0.005 is a reasonable alternative.

P - values are a notoriously difficult concept to grasp and are often misinterpreted, but the original paper's message was clear: A P - value, or α, below 0.05 is much weaker evidence that the results aren't wrong than people think; lowering it makes studies stronger.

As I stated in the panel, this is extremely weak evidence for an effect of carbs; there are many confounding factors and population - level data can not sort these out (the «ecological fallacy»).

Not only that, but from an epidemiological perspective, the China Study is considered weak evidence by many nutritional scientists — it was ecological and cross-sectional, rather than longitudinal and individual person - based.

I'm not a proponent of nut butters though since only weak evidence exists for its benefit and it could cause harm as they contain free fat which is not beneficial as far as we can tell.

To do that, supporters of charter schools also have to refrain from citing weaker evidence, which only serves to legitimize the use of inferior studies by charter opponents.

The B / M performance pattern lends weak evidence to the hypothesis that balance - sheet - based value measures perform better than income or cash - flow statement value metrics when the economy generates more returns from tangible assets (e.g., property, plant, and equipment) relative to intangible assets (e.g., human capital, R&D, and brand equity).

When reviewing convictions, we focus on the forms of weak evidence which have been proven unreliable over the past few decades — such as mistaken eyewitness identifications, false confessions, and bad forensics.

But a more serious question then arises: did the authors let their strong interest in the issue cause them to throw caution to the wind and press forward a statement based on weak evidence with a pedigree (i.e., not peer reviewed) that called for further exploration of the matter, and did they ignore critical review comments in the process?

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

The guideline found weak evidence that fMRI using nonverbal memory encoding may be considered for predicting visuospatial memory outcomes for people being evaluated for temporal lobe surgery.

The second paper, published this week in Nature Communications, goes back even further in time but offers weaker evidence, Cappellini says.

Court Dismisses Franchisor's Injunction Application because of Weak Evidence of Irreparable Harm

Numerous weekly comments have already detailed the weak evidence for the most popular bullish argument - the Fed Model (aka «capitalized earnings model,» aka «stocks are still cheap relative to bonds», aka «multiples are attractive on a price - to - forward earnings basis»).

Your examples are evidence, but they are weak evidence and they do not meet your precondition of being «nonbiased».

Christians ask us to believe their ancient, supernatural tall tale based on very weak evidence, and, a jump into the dark (faith).

In child attention at five years of age, weak evidence was found (one study) favouring the supplementation.

There is weaker evidence for a protective effect for eczema ≤ 2 years and allergic rhinitis ≤ 5 years of age, with greater protection for asthma and eczema in low - income countries.