For instance, if the goal is to generate a rank-ordered list of promising candidates genes that might causally affect a phenotype of interest and the biologist can easily validate several genes, a larger list generated by more powered and less precise methods might be more appealing.
Historic data provided by the water authorities were based on older (and potentially less precise) methods, combined with estimated dates when water treatments were introduced.
On the level of a general (group) practice, less precise methods can be used with acceptable results: for instance, by dividing all patients into at least 3 age cohorts per sex.
The brain seems to rely on less precise methods of signalling.
This might be due to inconsistent results from in-vitro data and less precise methods of analysis.
For example, colorectal cancer diagnosis currently utilizes either invasive methods, such as a colonoscopy, or far less precise methods, such as fecal analysis.
More bafflingly, the same ruling allowed mutation breeding, an older and less precise method for genome modification involving radiation and mutagenic chemicals.
The study used a less precise method than RSA, and another similar study showed no effect (Wilkinson et al. 2005).
Instead, paleoanthropologists have depended on less precise dating methods, which have given widely different ages for the fossil (Science, 25 April 2003, p. 562).
This method is less precise than other methods such as eye tracking, EMG, or electro-oculogram (EOG), to register specific types of artifacts.
