Sentence examples for of questionable validity from inspiring English sources

However well meaning these researchers, their gotcha psychology is morally invasive and, as the psychologist Philip Tetlock has cogently argued, of questionable validity and use.

This meta-analysis used diverse data collated over decades and was of questionable validity.

This article proposes three responses: to raise the standards for patentability, to decrease the use of patents to bar research, and to ease legal attack on patents of questionable validity (Science 17 March 2000, p. 1933).

The rise and fall in CellCyte shares were a classic "pump and dump," in which some of those with big positions in the stock gin up the price with vigorous promotion of questionable validity and then sell out before the fall.

I asked reddit users for bad adviser stories, and there seemed to be no shortage: advisers who yelled at their students, advisers who obstructed their students' progress for no reason, advisers who demanded that their students draw scientific conclusions of questionable validity.

Because these studies are flawed by data of questionable validity, do not report the obstetrical practices at delivery, and do not allow collection of potential confounding variables, we performed a national prospective study specially designed to evaluate the management of twins' delivery.

It has been argued that a symptom-based approach may be more favourable than a diagnostic approach due to questionable validity of diagnostic systems, substantial variation in symptomatology within categorical diagnosis and the ignoring of likely continua in the symptomatology between normal and pathological [ 11].

The most important suggestion from the authors, however, is not to exclude the behavior subscale from future research on fear of hypoglycemia, as has been done in some studies because of the questionable validity of the behavior subscale [ 21].

His office refused to comment as to why he found the meticulously-detailed report, which largely reiterated findings of previous reputable human rights investigations, of such questionable validity.

No student's future should depend on instruments of such questionable validity.

In relation to Montenegro fishery sector, the situation is complicated due to scarcity of information and questionable validity of the data.