Sentences with phrase «which exaggerates the number»

Both Labour and the Conservatives benefit greatly from FPTP, which exaggerates the number of seats awarded to the winning party (and often the second place party too), meaning a government with an overall majority can be elected with barely a third of the popular vote.

The Lib Dems are keen to move away from first past the post (FPTP), which exaggerates the number of seats awarded to a winning party - or the runner - up - traditionally favouring the Labour and Tory parties.

Not exact matches

The causes of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.

The Get Into Teaching campaign advertisement, which prompted a number of complaints from education bosses who claimed the advert exaggerated teachers» pay, has been excused by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

I'm not over exaggerating here but I have called the GM about 15 Times, all in which I have left multiple messages and my return number - I have still not been called back.

Lomborg in his book cites a number of cases in which environmental activists have misstated or exaggerated the truth in much the way Connolley attempts to on his site.

Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques which are flawed by design, in such a way that they exaggerate the benefits of treatments.

They can either agree that their previous reports exaggerated the value of climate sensitivity, or they can attempt to write a document which has little basis in science that says their previous numbers were right.

From their paper alone it would appear I exaggerated, but the «doubling» was based on numbers quoted in the petition to place the Emperor in the Endangered species list in which the Center for Bioogical Diversity argued a declining population.

Yet the land temperature trend record itself appears to be exaggerated by poor microsite, which would reduce that number by a bit.

18F implies almost two degrees a decade, a huge number considering the warming over the last decade has been close to zero and no decade has had warming of more than about 0.3 F. Further, I am sure the Sierra Club found someone who actually produced such a study, but the IPCC «consensus», which I think is exaggerated, calls for only about 4 - 6F increases in the next century.

But number two, involved 45 % of the time, is faulty forensics, which the Innocence Project defines as testimony that isn't scientifically vetted, exaggerated testimony, and forensic misconduct.

Along with a recent UK parking study (which indicated * minor * gender differences, which the media then exaggerated), it appears to have been the inspiration for a large number of recent reports about male vs female driving.

I would suggest the exact opposite for a number of reasons, the first of which is that: today's seller's do have greater access to information and are less likely to be fooled by a practitioner who is willing to buy a listing, by exaggerating its market value.