Sentence examples for discounted evidence from inspiring English sources

(Among other things, he discounted evidence provided by the Inuit by saying that he "believe[d] every savage to be in his heart covetous, treacherous, and cruel").

"The court mistakenly discounted evidence submitted by the city," said Gabriel Taussig, the chief of the administrative law division of the city's Law Department.

"They may have suffered from the everyday phenomenon of cognitive bias, meaning that they unconsciously discounted evidence of innocence because it was inconsistent with their prior view of the case, or they were motivated to think of themselves as people who only pursued the guilty".

In his testimony, the acting state treasurer, Peter R. Lawrance, did not discount evidence that this year's tax revenues were falling far short of expectations.

Previously, Dr. Schuett said, zookeepers and others tended to discount evidence of virgin births precisely because they were so out of the ordinary.

Chinese representatives complained that the forum ignored the views of scientists who discount evidence of global warming as part of normal climatic fluctuations or cast doubt on the effects of carbon dioxide.

But Carrillo and his attorney accuse the office of discounting evidence of wrongdoing that proved key to the federal prosecution.

This reflects another type of ingrained bias known as experience bias (or naive realism [pdf]), which causes people to discount evidence that contradicts their point of view.

Their familiarity with and trust in their own work may have led them to ignore or discount evidence that presented an alternative view.

Since there was no consensus on how to combine observational evidence with RCTs, we discounted observational evidence with power transform priors taking advantage of the flexibility in Bayesian modelling.

The Florida Supreme Court had "unreasonably discounted the evidence of Porter's childhood abuse and military service," the decision said.