Sentence examples for Unsupported assumption from inspiring English sources

Our findings replicate Curtis' findings and challenge the still common but unsupported assumption that HPA axis activity reflects subjective distress.

But this reasoning proceeds on the wholly unsupported assumption that such procedures have been required in Washington in all other cases.

Its argument is based on the unsupported assumption that intensive farm management and mass production of meat are essential for human well-being.

Thus, studies have had to rely on the largely unsupported assumption that number of functions can be measured indirectly, by using number of morphological, physiological, and behavioral partsas a proxy.

One study used a semi-quantitative competitive real-time PCR method to evaluate the extent of RNA degradation in bloodstains over time and made the as-yet unsupported assumption with their assay design that degradation to mRNA occurs in the ex vivo dried state in a similar manner to that in the in vivo state, namely from the 5'end [26].

Despite this evidence, proposed reforms in the UK still favour the private and voluntary sector model on the (unsupported) assumption that it is more effective.

This study was performed to evaluate randomized cancer trials resulting negative regarding inadequate accrual, unsupported assumptions of equivalence and factors implied in such assumptions.

Smokers heaped on the counterarguments: "many smokers live a long time" (true, but ignores the statistical evidence), "lots of things are hazardous" (a red herring), "smoking is better than being a nervous wreck," and so forth, piling red herrings on top of unsupported assumptions.

In so doing, this chapter carefully traces the logical lapses and unsupported assumptions that facilitated the scalar shifts from empirical data collection, rangeland assessment, and rangeland regulation.

Of these three cases, Henderson's assertions in particular make several unsupported assumptions and conflict with the known modern and fossil diversity of flying birds.

Our study attempts to apply scientific rigor to a clinical (i.e. applied) question without making unsupported assumptions.