Sentence examples for methodological judgments from inspiring English sources

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

Besides, even in doing science, scientists are forced to make hundreds of value-laden, methodological judgments, about everything from proper sample sizes, measurement errors, and possible model biases, to data interpretations [ 34].

If they did not make methodological value judgments, they could not do science.

The title of Melson and co-workers' [ 61] paper illustrates the point: 'Overestimation of peer drinking: error of judgment or methodological artifact?'.

Our overall judgment of methodological quality was not related to I2 (P = 0.26, Mann-Whitney test for trend corrected for ties, grouping I2 into intervals of 10%).

According to the current methodological paradigm, no formal judgment on the relative merits of drugs can be made in the absence of head-to-head trials.

Seven methodological solecisms have clouded judgment over the question of lead toxicity at low dose: worship of the sacrament of p = 0.05; inaccurate causal modeling; drawing conclusions from studies with inadequate power; positing phantom covariates; underestimating the importance of "small" effects; demanding proof of causality; and evaluating studies in isolation.

Overall, 44 (34%) trials were judged to be at low risk of bias for sequence generation and five (4%) to be at high risk (see the supplementary file for the risk of bias judgments for each methodological quality item for the included trials).

The COSMIN checklist facilitates a separate judgment of the methodological quality of the included studies and their results.

The total number of quality points reflects the judgment of the methodological quality and can vary from 0 to 5 (all quality items were positive).

Judgments regarding the presence of methodological biases were made according to Cochrane criteria guidelines [23].