Sentences with phrase «with false assumptions»

Starting with false assumptions was common in the attribution studies reporting that astronomical forcings influence Earth's climate.

Most papers fell into the the «analytical setup» category, and a common logical failure found in these papers was either starting with false assumptions or executing an erroneous analysis.

So many social science papers you blog on seem to begin with false assumptions.»

The exhibition is filled with false assumptions, hypocrisy, erroneous history, bad taste, foolish choices and worst of all - The Brooklyn Museum brouhaha — stole all the thunder.

They work to dispel the myths associated with the false assumptions that breed bans work, while disseminating factual, peer reviewed scientific evidence create effective laws that help foster safe and humane communities.

You don't want people to enter your book with false assumptions and be disappointed.

niknak, you missed the point entirely with your false assumption.

Your error, time after time, is the same thing: starting with a false assumption and believing in it like a divine dogma.

Not exact matches

I agree with your intro about false assumptions leading to bad content decisions, but your 10 - step plan doesn't get the job done, either.

We despair at Italy's persistent tinkering with electoral laws, an obsession based on the false assumption that other systems would produce fundamentally different outcomes.

The root assumption that gets Sales VPs fired (although the Board and CEO are equally responsible) is the false assumption that salespeople will find new business on their own from past Rolodexes or lots of cold calls, with a minimum of help or investment from the company.

Is not this whole assumption that Jesus was concerned «with a new selfhood, irrespective of whether it be conceived individualistically or in terms of the historicity of human existence, based upon a false theologizing of the historical Jesus?

The assumption of the secularizers and the atheists that the reality of God stands or fails with the reality of metaphysics is false.

The reasonable response to an incorrect assumption is to correct it rather than just saying that my assumptions are false with no actual indication of an assumption you think I made which is false.

Jesus had to contend with the same thing about false assumptions.

Scheck reports that in his The Apostolic Fathers, Lightfoot «said that the assumption that Christians forgot nothing but magnified everything in connection with their persecutions is shown to be altogether false,» pointing out that no Christian source preserved a record of the Bithynian persecution, perhaps the most severe one the early Church suffered.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

I argue that much of the sudden rise in our expectations was under - pinned by false assumptions made at the time about our perceived prospects — our expectations — of winning the League and it therefore follows that whilst the major part of this disappointment was due to the teams dip in performance — my second conclusion is that at least some of our huge disappointment was undoubtedly down to us fans (aided and abetted by the media) getting carried away with our expectations.

Let's start with one rather large false assumption made in the quote above by Amanda, affirmed by Martha and the book she was reviewing: that Attachment Parenting (AP) is an elaborate parenting theory created to achieve the same result as the conservative movement — i.e. to hold a woman at home, tied to the kitchen.

The alert for the out of range condition ensures that you know when you get disconnected with your baby, so that you don't keep going on the false assumption that you are still keeping a check on your baby.

If it's «misleading» to focus only on the mechanism for increases in these benefits, why then are you publishing Horton's article, which is concerned with nothing else, makes the false assumption that all benefit recipients will receive them in perpetuity, and which suggests disingenuously that a CPI link will apply to all benefits?

Stepping back and correcting false assumptions is part and parcel of the scientific method, concludes Professor Schuit: «We have to continue verifying our methods with a critical eye, even if it means that research advances at a slower pace.

Most importantly, we also quantify and characterize the distribution and rate of occurrence of planets down to Earth size with no prior assumptions on their frequency, by subtracting from the population of actual Kepler candidates our simulated population of astrophysical false positives.

Many women are still under the false assumption that exercise is a no - no during pregnancy, but the truth is that regular movement can help your baby reach a healthy birth weight, alleviate the aches and pains associated with pregnancy and possibly even make your labor easier and shorter (nice!).

Also, the assumption that an unhealthy diet is associated with a larger body is false and carries with it a lot of stigma.

-- Greg Liberman, president and COO, Spark Networks «If you start on a date with a picture from 10 years ago and you've gained 10 pounds or if you have a lot less hair now, you're starting on false assumptions.

The rest of us make false assumptions, and might then be disappointed with reality.

If you start on a date with a picture from 10 years ago and you've gained 10 pounds or if you have a lot less hair now, you're starting on false assumptions.

«The second problem,» Murray continues, «with the argument that education can be vastly improved is the false assumption that educators already know how to educate everyone and that they just need to try harder — the assumption that prompted No Child Left Behind.

Noticing how superheroes suffer with feelings of isolation and so - called good girls really aren't so perfect after all reinforces the fact that we cheat ourselves and others when we label people based on appearances and false assumptions.

Assuming teachers will know what to do with them is a completely false assumption.

Teacher Match and Hanover Research are the companies specifically named and targeted for marketing and selling a series of highly false assumptions about teaching and teachers, highly false claims about value - added (without empirical research in support), highly false assertions about how value - added estimates can be used for better teacher evaluation / accountability, and highly false sales pitches about what they as value - added / research «experts» can do to help with the complex statistics needed for the above

Thus, this is inevitably just an exercise to determine what the absolute bare minimum dollar value of each part of the budget is comprised of, and will be distant from the actual budget values, with an error directly related to how false the assumptions (especially the second) happen to be.

With the vagueness, the reader might make an assumption that would prove false later on, and the author takes a chance of alienating the reader if this is not made clearer.

Even the most logical religion starts out with patently false assumptions.

We were living with a lot of false assumptions like transmission via water / food bowls and litter boxes.

I guess my surprise is based on a false assumption that a demographic that gets a significant chunk of its information from Internet sources would be fairly well - saturated with puppy mill abuse stories through cross postings and Facebook shares.

The problem with this rosy scenario is that it is based on several false assumptions, the first of which is that pet store puppies all come from «puppy mills.»

Since then, a number of gambling sites started leveraging the Steam trading system, and there's been some false assumptions about our involvement with these sites.

As with all purported explanations of the greenhouse effect, the paper is pointless, being based on demonstrably false assumptions.

It was based off false assumptions and as a result, Americans are stuck with a program that doesn't line up with the world we live in today.

The MD wave in SLR doesn't come out cleanly with linear detrending (which makes false assumptions).

In that case every single decision that every single human has ever made throughout their entire life for all recorded history, on the basis of the assumption that there is a God, or Gods, or Gods and Saints and Devils or an entire supernatural pantheon with its own history at war and involving humans in their intrigues, has had a pretty glaring false premise at its very root.

The scientific assumption behind the Kyoto protocol, namely that humans are known to be significantly interfering with an otherwise unchanging climate, is simply false.

In addition to inherent scientific uncertainties slowing response, a variety of human and institutional barriers stand in the way of adaptation measures: long lead - times for rule changes; ideological resistance; a preoccupation with the near - term; false perceptions that climate impacts either won't be too painful or are off in the distant future; business - as - usual assumptions; and lack of national leadership.

After all, while he attempts to interfere with progress by making such statements, our entire energy infrastructure is crumbling, our natural gas supplies continue to dwindle, we don't have nearly enough engineers and skilled labor to expand nuclear development the way they claim we can, and our decision - makers (until very recently) have been under the false assumption that we have 250 years worth of coal reserves.

It was presented to test stupid denialists claims that refereed underpinning data of the global warming thesis was compiled with «trickery» or with false «assumptions».

The assumption (and that is all it is) that «The only real impact it would have is to limit the growth of our standard of living» is not justified, and allmost certainly false if high end projections of temperature increase by the end of this century are realized (or if high end projections of economic impacts are realized with central estimates of temperature increase).

In the real world, the fact that surface temperature drags the low level air temperature along with it shows this assumption to be false.

As far as I can tell now, many of the assumptions of AGW appear to be false, nothing that one reads on climate change from Nature to Drudge is reliable, and no one has a clue what is happening with the Climate.