* * * The phemomenon known as identity protective cognition, or motivated reasoning, can help explain our general propensity to dismiss data that might threaten our fundamental sense of who we are or what we believe.
The Pesticide Action Network Germany, based in Hamburg, criticized the German agency's analysis in a report this month, saying that it used improper statistical methods to dismiss data in multiple studies that do indicate an increase in tumors in rats and mice fed glyphosate.
When making decisions about the social marketing intervention, it is also important to not dismiss data that may still be useful, even if potential confounders may be present in one analysis of the variables.
While removal of these is 'standard practice', this needs to be evaluated in a quantitative framework to see whether and how it influences eventual ecological analyses; are our assessments made more vulnerable by including bad data or dismissing good data?
He dismissed the data that contradicted his diagnosis — the absence of rhonchi and of white streaks on the chest X-ray, and the normal white-blood-cell count — as evidence that the infection was at an early stage.
And worrisome findings about lead by a concerned pediatrician were dismissed as "data," in quotes.
The Romney senior staff dismissed polling data and shrugged at any notion that Democratic turnout was where the polls said it was.
According to the ADS answers, one probands' questionnaire was not possible to evaluate and was therefore dismissed from data analysis.
The problem is, both authors dismiss big data on the grounds of volume alone, ignoring the fact that it is speed, not size that is increasingly driving desire for software and hardware improvements at data-processing organisations.
But why do the sceptics accept the truth of dismal government figures for construction and steel output – down 15% and 4%, respectively, in the year to August – and then dismiss official data showing 10.8% retail-sales growth?
