"The systems can't handle this volume of data," contends Mr Norman.
But teachers' unions have fought to make sure evaluations do not rely too heavily on testing data, contending that the data are prone to errors.
The French scientist Stéphane Grumbach, an expert on big data, contends that "if the U.S. puts so much emphasis on this industry, it is also because the data it collects around the world gives it so much information".
Nocsae, a trade group staffed partly and financed largely by the helmet industry, forbids the dissemination of test data, contending that the numbers can imply safety properties that may not exist.
The Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a nonprofit group that analyzed the federal data, contends that the state needs to make improvements to Long Island roads; it suggests repainting crosswalks, adding signs, changing the timing on lights and revamping medians.
Countering this, behavioral finance researchers who almost exclusively rely on survey data contend that they have evolved methodologies and controls that mitigate biases.
Those, like Barry, who make their living digging for data contend that the spirit of the law was intended to thwart foreign espionage only.
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA--In a study that could help scientists better predict Ebola outbreaks, a new quantitative analysis of genetic and other data contends that a deadly strain of the virus has been slowly spreading across central Africa rather than popping up as sporadic outbreaks.
Drawing on a range of psychological and historical data, he contended that the modern era was the most peaceful in human history in The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011).
The Chief Justice believes that the law school's policy conceals an attempt to achieve racial balancing, and cites admissions data to contend that the law school discriminates among different groups within the critical mass.
Doing that would require Google to "affirm Twitter's dominance in this category and the importance of the Twitter data stream," contends Borthwick.
