Sentence examples for certain validity from inspiring English sources

These stereotypes may be offensive, but there is a certain validity to them.

The Commissioner seemed to feel that the complaints of the clergy men gave his one-man censorship a certain validity.

Then, a certain validity index is used to select the optimal clustering result.

"I've been trying for a long time to prepare what I thought would be interesting to some people, something that had a certain validity and originality.

Neither picture would be viable without an exception-clause that acknowledges a certain validity to the rival picture.

"It has a certain validity in terms of who I am and what I've fought for," she said one recent afternoon as she walked through an exhibition of women's work at the American Folk Art Museum.

Notwithstanding Toch's late life surge in productivity, which lasted through to his death in LA in 1964, he would sometimes refer to himself as "the world's most forgotten composer," a wistful joke that betrayed a certain painful validity.

Data regarding previous ED visits were directly collected by interviewing the patient, and we cannot be absolutely certain about validity of the responses.

For example, claims that changes in the gender balance of the PCP workforce will change the effective overall supply of primary health services (for example, because female physicians work fewer hours than their male counterparts) and/or the mix of available services (for example, because of differences in styles of practice) have a certain intuitive validity.

Even if the districts are nearly 1000 km apart, most of the results were similar in both, with very few exceptions (more informal payments, a little more integration in the district health team's activities, a more advanced community information phase), which gives them a certain internal validity.

Since interviews are not used for all admissions at KI, we were able to compare students that had been admitted as a result of their performance at a selection interview, to those who had not and, in addition, we chose to identify end-points of low and high performers, respectively, which, although it limits variance, yields a measure of certain face-validity.