As I have cited Timothy Gowers above, I think it would be best to leave off with his opinion of open data-sharing and collaboration: "It feels as though this process is to normal research as driving is to pushing a car".
SEJ has been successfully used to quantify uncertainty in scenarios when scientific consensus is confounded by divergences of opinion or lack of data.
However, in view of the lack of scientific evidence, the vast majority of guidelines are based on expert opinion or extrapolation of data on candidemia [ 8].
Most evaluations in the literature thus far have been based on opinions (commentary) instead of data.
But that didn't stop many in the media from weighing in, building edifices of soaring opinion on the shakiest of data.
However the development of these measures have predominantly been based on expert opinion, with a lack of data to support their validation [ 10].
Prior distributions can be estimated based on a review of the literature and/or expert opinion in the absence of data.
Model parameters were drawn from the literature and were Toronto-specific, wherever possible, or were based on expert opinion in the absence of data (Table 1).
The findings have been used extensively as a basis for policy decisions and programme interventions, for the purpose of influencing public opinion a major source of data for monitoring national and international development goals and commitments for children.
Thus, in November 2006, the European Food Safety Authority EFSAA) released its opinion on the plausibility of data regarding levels of BPA in human blood and excretion of BPA and BPA metabolites in environmentally exposed humans.
It has also at times taken a selective approach to the reporting of opinion poll data to strengthen the conviction that the majority of the public support wind power [ 25].
