I find the Brazilian system irksome because it accepts as a baseline the presumption —insisted on by anti-GMO campaigners — that all GMOs are the same, and that the term GMO is actually meaningful at all.
"Essentially, this syndrome has arisen because each generation of fisheries scientists accepts as a baseline the stock size and species composition that occurred at the beginning of their careers, and uses this to evaluate changes," Pauly argued in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
In conclusion, despite these positive findings, our current results should be accepted as a baseline, rather than a guide, and be validated by future larger studies.
Since, few studies have addressed the impact of student centered teaching on student psychological wellbeing; the results of this study can be used as a proxy indicator of student wellbeing and can be accepted as a baseline for further investigation.
Even now, the so-called mainstream media can grade Palin on a curve: at MSNBC's "Morning Joe" last week, Palin's self-proclaimed representation of the "real America" was accepted as a given, as if white rural America actually still was the nation's baseline.
I was accepted as a poet.
A 10% variation was accepted as a considerable change.
A P value <0.05 was accepted as a significant difference.
The networked information environment provides an outlet for contrary expression and a medium for shaking what we accept as cultural baseline assumptions.
Without quantitative data, large-scale changes in one generation can be overlooked, resulting in a gradual shift towards increasingly degraded natural states being accepted as the baseline for future comparisons [ 1].
Let's assume, as a baseline, that we all care.
