Sentence examples for favour evidence from inspiring English sources

Masters of Nothing taps into modish fields of research, namely behavioural economics, to argue that the financial crash was the result of human irrationality: our misperception of risk, our tendency to favour evidence that confirms our existing biases, our hard-wired desire to go with the crowd.

The quality improvement field needs to embrace science, favour evidence over anecdote, and move beyond using only one generic framework for improvement (the plan, do, study, act cycle).

In addition, Mrs in 't Veld stated very clearly that she favours evidence-based policy-making.

In doing so we reject exaggeration in favour of evidence.

This included misattribution (blaming symptoms on external, short-term causes), and bargaining (ignoring deficits in functioning in favour of evidence that symptoms were normal).

This means a U-turn from the current blinkered expert approach, which dismisses public perceptions in favour of "evidence-led working".

Patients in the present study used a range of criteria to evaluate CAM therapies, usually favouring experiential evidence (patients' stories), rather than scientific evidence of effectiveness.

Therefore, early surgical intervention has been favoured, although evidence-based data are lacking.

Evidence can also be balanced if it is conflicted: different pieces of evidence favour different hypotheses.

"President Blatter looks forward to a decision in his favour, because the evidence requires it," Blatter's lawyer Richard Cullen said.

We report evidence favouring the former account.