The first thing was to rip the plastic covering off the crates while making a swift, imprecise count of how many bottles were in each layer.
Making a theory imprecise does indeed make it more difficult for the data to detect problems in the theory – but that same imprecision makes it easier for the discipline to disregard the researcher's work!
She also asserted that the National Assessment of Educational Progress test was a flawed standard because it is not administered to every child in every school, making it an imprecise measure of achievement.
Loss of 1 liter of blood or fluid does not affect arterial pressure, making it an imprecise parameter to recognize central hypovolemia (14).
However, GLI1 expression and activity are regulated by other signalling pathways, including Ras and transforming growth factor-β in a SMO-independent fashion [ 101], making it an imprecise biomarker of Hh pathway activity.
Moreover, the median of discrete numerical variables often has a small number of possible values--five for a three-valued scale--which makes it an imprecise measure of central tendency and thus unsuitable for demonstrating less than large differences between the groups.
There is no doubt that interobserver variability make morphology an imprecise tool (Cserni, 1999; Dunne and Going, 2001), but there is no evidence so far that any combination of molecular attributes can be used to predict the morphological, behavioural and drug response profiles of all breast cancers.
But at the same time, the White House has made an effort to excuse itself from responsibility for the devastatingly imprecise airstrikes. .
The flood of drugs that don't work has made it into an imprecise science based largely on intuition and experience.
Isaac Levi (1974 , 1985 makes a distinction between "imprecise" credences and "indeterminate" credences (the scare quotes are indicating that these aren't uses of the terms "imprecise" and "indeterminate" that accord with the usage I adopt in this article).
