But the Center for the Advancement of Health, a nonprofit group in Washington that advocates using science as a basis for making health decisions, has criticized the statistic in its newsletter, saying that it is based more on extrapolation than on hard epidemiological data.
But it was real, that effervescence, and child-like in that it seemed based more on hope than experience, tinged with pain as hope so often is.
However, like many other diets, it was based more on "theory than evidence", according to Hawkey.
"It was based more upon micro-targeting very specific groups of voters in marginal seats".
Charles seems to have accepted this judgment and the stricture on which it was based, more or less unquestioningly.
That sounds not unlike one of those weird, nebulously titled awards people used to invent in order to get Michael Jackson to show up to ceremonies in the 1990s, but this time it was based, more or less, in fact.
Experts have also criticized a new I.O.C. policy on determining who can compete as a woman, comparing the regulation to invasive sex-testing procedures and saying it was based more on social standards than science.
The problem with the CurrentC system, as John Gruber points out, is that it's based more around solving the retailers' credit card fee problems than the consumers' payment friction problems.
It is based more on America's voting public's poor understanding about foreign policy than on specific facts.
It was probably based more on a xenophobic suspicion of international connections than on racial hatred.
