Sentence examples for methodological from inspiring English sources

In the initial chapter Schutz praised Max Weber's views on value-freedom in social science and the autonomy of science vis-à-vis other activities (e.g. politics), and he commended Weber's methodological individualism and ideal-type methodology.

Martin Boon of ICM Unlimited said: "When the race is this tight, the methodological judgments made by us pollsters can become all-important".

A study published in the Journal of Attention Disorders in February suffers from some methodological shortcomings (for instance small numbers – only 28 children between the ages of three and four, and only for five days), but was, at least, a randomised controlled trial, using actigraphs worn on the wrist to objectively measure sleep.

This project lends itself to a range of methodological approaches - test data and focus group responses, for example - and promises to provide a very interesting perspective.

At best, the measures of aggression that are used in such work are unstandardised; at worst, the field has been shown to be riddled with basic methodological and analytical flaws.

Methodological improvements will capture the relationships between institutions the effect on its peers of Lehman Brothers going bust, say as well as their independent risk profiles, which are commonly assessed by a measure called "value at risk" (VAR).

John Williams at Shadow Government Statistics runs an inflation measure that ignores all the methodological changes that have been made to the CPI since 1980; this has inflation running at 8.5%.

But when it comes to the evaluation of policy as desirable or undesirable, we should consider that economists whose arguments turn heavily on their methodological nationalism are acting more like consultants who are paid to analyse the effects of a business strategy on the interests of a corporation or club than like moral philosophers with the welfare of humanity in mind.

Researchers are used to winning research grants on the basis of quantitative analyses, and find it hard to change methodological gears: fair enough.

But a great variety of topics are peculiar to forensic science, and it is here that methodological standards start to slip.For example, little proper research has been done on the reliability of handwriting analysis.

Although most of the adverse economic effects of unplanned motherhood dissipate over time for whites, there are larger and more persistent negative effects on black unwed mothers.Nice methodological work.