Sentence examples for little validity from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, there are so many exceptions to this guideline that it has little validity.

What he says about present-day Ethiopia is either terribly off the mark or highly exaggerated, and has little validity.

The government, the Tories charge, has focused on those close to the poverty line and ignored the most desperate.According to Mike Brewer of the IFS, this putative new category has little validity.

Studies touting the effectiveness of drug treatment have little validity because they are based on self-reports.Dr Michael Reznicek Psychiatrist Spokane, WashingtonSIR – Any amount of funds designated for stopping drug- trafficking will never be enough.

The problem is that from a psychological perspective, there is little validity to this assumption.

One newspaper editorial, noting that the pamphlets described the film as "a hundred times better than [the contemporary film] Huwen op Bevel", was scornful, stating that such a claim had very little validity as "the quality of the native films so far are rubbish".

For this reason many museums have heterogeneous collections, at best accumulated under an "encyclopaedic" philosophy (which has rarely been successful unless major resources were available to achieve it) and at worst continuing a "cabinet of curiosities" approach (which may amuse and entertain the clientele but has little scientific validity).

However, bizarre delusions are not reliably diagnosed by either, suggesting that this concept may have little clinical validity.

The study has very little external validity, which is a polite way of saying its findings shouldn't be generalized to other contexts.

Therefore, the diagnostic value of our instrument may also have little external validity.

However, they have little biological validity and there is no evidence that they reflect etiology.