For those who study higher education trends and data, and college students who live it, methodological assumptions overflow and concerns arise when reviewing the new College Scorecard.
This paper details our reflections on the methodological assumptions and ethical issues that emerged when we conducted a systematic review of selected HPV vaccination studies.
Section 3 outlines methodological assumptions of the data construction.
The problem is that background assumptions, which may include methodological assumptions, assumptions with empirical content, metaphysical assumptions, and value-laden assumptions, are rarely articulated.
We made two methodological assumptions that we believe to be reasonable.
Religious studies often involve important methodological assumptions about history and about the nature and limits of religious experience.
For FM, the Carbon Budget Model and the general methodological assumptions applied to each country were described previously [26].
Our method, as any modeled projection, contains uncertainties, mainly related to the original input data and to methodological assumptions.
More specific information on the methodological assumptions applied to these disturbances is reported in the Additional file:1 for Portugal.
Further details on the methodological assumptions are reported in the Additional file: 1. i.e. Transparency, accuracy, completeness, consistency, comparability.
