Sentence examples for mere measurement from inspiring English sources

This may reflect a "mere measurement effect" – a phenomenon found in health psychology research, whereby being merely asked about health attitudes and behaviors can result in behavior change.

He also learned to read the weather in ways that went beyond its mere measurement: how every change in wind direction was a signal of an altered pattern, and how to read the speed and turbulence of the jet stream by studying the vapor trails of high-flying aircraft.

This can be a sore point in some cases--a scientist who comes up with a hypothesis that only requires a "mere measurement" to test can be reluctant to cede ownership of any part of that hypothesis to the person doing the measurement, no matter how intellectually challenging the measurement.

This is a quite remarkable "mere measurement" effect, given the simplicity of the intervention.

Finally, whilst "mere measurement effects" were found across groups, it is also possible that these could have occurred between groups.

There are currently no simplified practical tests that allow an accurate determination of anaerobic capacity besides the mere measurement of sprint time.

Unlike the traditional Kriging variance which is a function of mere measurements density and spatial configuration of data points, the conditional copula account for the influence from data values.

The analysis of the MTF is more informative than the mere measurements of the fwhm.

It appears that our choice to eat sweet foods either as a replacement or as an addition to other nutrients may be a more correct predictor of whether sweet foods will have an effect on body weight than are mere measurements of total sweet intake.

It contributes substantially to the blood donor recruitment and mere-measurement literatures and highlights the importance of replication.

This may account for why some studies with high compliance (e.g. 82 %) [ 19] have observed a mere-measurement effect with ITT analysis and others have not.