He didn't propose that as a test of anything; he was merely speculating.
One merely speculates, and seldom does any of it have anything to do with the real world.
Because there has been only a little of it, one can merely speculate as to what exactly would be found by an ethnoaccountant of the modern American corporation.
How is the trial judge to know whether the expert is merely speculating, or whether the evidence on which the expert bases his or her testimony is sufficient to support the conclusion?
Instead, [plaintiffs] merely speculate and make assumptions about whether their communications with their foreign contacts will be acquired under §1881a.... [Plaintiffs], however, have set forth no specific facts demonstrating that the communications of their foreign contacts will be targeted.
While he may have made his way into the 1%, he's not merely speculating on life's jagged edges; he's lived them, so he has considerably more authority to address the polity honestly.
We are merely speculating, in a spirit of pure scientific research, on just what these people are going to do now, and what effect their futures will have on the newspapers we shall all be reading for the next year.
It pointed out that the plaintiffs have filed suit "four years before the provision they challenge takes effect, demonstrate no current injury, and merely speculate whether the law will harm them once it is in force".
As a consequence, testimony by unpoliced expert witnesses can have a potentially prejudicial effect on jurors, who may be inclined to believe the experts solely because of their "expert status". How is the trial judge to know whether the expert is merely speculating, or whether the evidence on which the expert bases his or her conclusions is sufficient to support the conclusion?
The roadblocks--some documented, others merely speculated--seem to be the same ones women have faced in many scientific fields: family-life and work-life balance and a real or perceived bias that prevents advancement.
