Sentences with phrase «weak evidence which»

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.

Not exact matches

No matter how weak you may believe it to be, it is far stronger than any evidence for a GOD or gods, of which there is none.

Capital punishment's lack of demonstrated superiority as a deterrent (the evidence for its effectiveness being at best mixed), the capacity of society to protect itself equally well by permanently imprisoning those who are currently being executed (which is possible at limited marginal cost, especially when one takes into account the cost of the extended trial procedures and interminable appeals and reviews which usually accompany capital punishment)-- all these points are important, but their utility is chiefly as rebuttal arguments in response to the empirically weak but emotionally strong claims made on behalf of capital punishment.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

The ATLAS collaboration also releases first evidence for an important but rare weak - interaction process in which a single top quark is produced together with a Z boson.

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.

Given this weak statistical evidence of positive relationships between student achievement and district or school data use (as reflected in the principal and teacher survey items), we turned to our qualitative data, which provided the following insights:

Amazon recently added the UK and Germany to Kindle Unlimited, which started off as US - only, but anecdotal evidence suggests that early response from both these countries has been much weaker than in the US.

The evidence for the overrating includes substantial differences in the environmental conditions in which those strong tornadoes were observed, as well as aspects of their damage path with tornadoes in the retrospective era sharing characteristics with weaker tornadoes from later years.

Several weeks ago an international scientific study published new and harder evidence that one of the planet's key heat pumps, the currents which exchange warmth between the tropics and the Arctic, are weaker today than at any time in the last millennium.

The reports of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), several of which I gave to McKenna, cite hundreds of references published in leading science journals that show today's climate is not unusual, and evidence of future climate calamity is weak.

Last year he said the 5 - year mean was weak evidence of a slowdown of global warming, by which he means the surface air temperature, which should be clear to anybody who reads Hansen.

When the conclusions you reach vary so drastically with the prior, what it should be telling you is that most of your knowledge about the date is not coming from the radiocarbon data, which is pretty weak and uninformative evidence, it's coming from your prior expectations.

Direct measurements of the AMOC are only available for the past ten years or so, but Yeager et al. present a combination of observation - and model - based evidence that suggests that the Atlantic thermohaline circulation (THC, which is closely related to AMOC) transitioned from a weak state in the 1970s to a strong state in the 1990s and that this strengthening contributed to the accelerated rate of winter sea ice loss that was observed in the late 1990s.

I could say that the sun is weaker than it has been for a while in this cycle, yet global cloud cover is lower, which is evidence that the Svensmark theory is wrong, while this evidence consistent with AGW and positive cloud feedback.

The principal differences are the extent to which the cloud layer is quasi-steady in the current simulations, evidence of weak countergradient momentum transport within the cloud layer, and the development and influence of an incipient stratiform cloud layer at the top of the cloud layer.

By contrast, the equally unlikely streak of incorrect predictions also generated a relatively weak belief in the existent of an «unlucky» agent whose luck was perceived to be likely to revert before the game finishes; evidence which was reflected in an increase in the subject's propensity to buy in the final round of coin flip.

This correlation provides evidence that the translation speed of a storm can exert a significant control on the intensity of storms by modulating the strength of the negative effect of the storm - induced sea surface temperature (SST) reduction on the storm intensification (i.e., the SST feedback): Faster - moving storms tend to generate weaker sea surface cooling and have shorter exposure to the cooling, both of which tend to weaken the negative SST feedback

The report which contains statements like this: «Although there is some evidence that ionization from cosmic rays may enhance aerosol nucleation in the free troposphere, there is medium evidence and high agreement that the cosmic ray - ionization mechanism is too weak to influence global concentrations of CCN or their change over the last century or during a solar cycle in any climatically significant way.

The evidence for an upward trend is even weaker if we look at U.S. landfalling hurricanes, which even show a slight negative trend beginning from 1900 or from the late 1800s (Figure 3, yellow curves).

The Samaroos were acquitted of all charges in a 2010 criminal trial where the trial judge found the Crown's case «weak» and supported by «unreliable» and «highly uncertain» evidence which contained «significant flaws» and «discrepancies».

Believe in the notion that it's difficult or impossible for judges to figure out who was «at fault» (except if it has to do with allegations of maternal gatekeeping, «enmeshment» or parental alienation — in which case it's strict liability upon a showing of any weak or fabricated evidence).

«Even with the weak initial estimates of first - quarter GDP — which was also influenced by the extreme winter in much of the country — the overwhelming evidence of strengthening job gains, lower unemployment, and improved consumer confidence doesn't sync with an annualized household formation rate of just 69,000 in the first quarter of this year,» Muoio points out.