"Little Children," its title notwithstanding, is a rigorous study of adult behavior, and the first playground scene, introduced by an unseen narrator whose smooth, authoritative voice is familiar from luxury-car commercials, sets a tone that is both compassionate and severe.
"This is a rigorous study that means we can now say that it's possible for an abstinence-only intervention to be effective," Dr. John B. Jemmott III, the University of Pennsylvania professor who led the study, said Tuesday, hours after results of the study were released.
It was a rigorous study conducted by highly qualified researchers at a pre-eminent, mainstream medical institution.
If I'm after a rigorous study of a theme or an event, I'd rather sit down with an Errol Morris, or a Robert Greenwald, or - more recently - Spike Lee's unembellished, award-winning film about Hurricane Katrina.
Social science's most ambitious attempt to measure bias and racial resentment is the General Social Survey — a rigorous study that has been conducted regularly by in-person interviewers since 1972.
Studies were ranked, with a 'low-risk' study deemed to have the least risk of bias and considered to be a rigorous economic study (Additional file 4).
The next step should be a rigorous epidemiologic study of a possible link between stimulants and PTSD in our troops.
"It's a rigorous, elegant study," Avidan says.
It is also possible that there is some loss of data quality by utilising health workers to collect assessment data instead of trained research data collectors however the aim of the project was not to be a rigorous research study but rather to develop the skills of mid level managers to conduct assessments of their own programmes and to interpret and act on the findings.
