Roughly stated, this principle counsels that, absent a reason to the contrary, we give equal priors to competing hypotheses.
We assess how revenue models affect collaboration in OpenStack: contrary to expectations, firms competing for the same revenue model (i.e., where rivalry is expected) tend to collaborate more than firms which do not compete for the same revenue model; being the exception only those firms that provide public cloud services (in the case of OpenStack, these are HP, Rackspace and Canonical).
Addition of nonradioactive GATA-1 oligonucleotides, both from HBG2 and HBB promoters [ 15], resulted only in the lower band being efficiently competed, contrary to the upper band that remained visible (Fig. 3a), indicating that the lower band most likely represents GATA-1 binding.
Indeed, contrary to expectations when AOL acquired Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, not AOL, is now in a better position to compete for Internet users.
To suggest African Americans are unable to compete in the competitive institutions of higher learning is insulting and blatantly contrary to the evidence".
On the contrary, the species of sedges and forbs are slower-growing or shorter, so they had the disadvantage of having to compete for light more than grasses.
The decision, it said, "denied readers an opportunity to weigh competing views, contrary to the journal's policies and traditions".
Mr Cameron also criticised him for being "too weak", contrary to his previous jibes about competing against his own brother.
Hidden Chronicles, meanwhile, is led by an early creator of games in the hidden objects genre — it's not a copy of a few competing titles, contrary to what many non-users have assumed.
Next in the list, while not reported as synonyms, are nonetheless correct predictions: heretical, heterodox, competing, and contrary to accepted belief (all 0.98), followed by contending and hotheaded (both 0.97).
