Sentence examples for preference hypothesis from inspiring English sources

For example, he argues that the hypothesis of assortative mating by status does a better job of accounting for some of evolutionary psychologists' mate selection data than their preferred high status preference hypothesis.

Although the sexual preference hypothesis can explain why some offenders prefer children, this does not provide a comprehensive understanding, particularly when considering offenders who target both adult and child victims.

First, the "no preference" hypothesis states that pollinating wasps are simply unable to distinguish between male and female figs.

Second, the "limited partial preference" hypothesis, which is based on imperfect sex mimicry, states that pollinators might develop a partial preference for male figs.

This indicates that the data are 4.5 times more likely in the hypothesis that there is a difference between men and women than in the equal preference hypothesis.

This supports the Discovered Preference Hypothesis, and on the basis of this we suggest a number of ways to potentially mitigate the starting point bias.

The "preference of heterozygous mates" hypothesis (hypothesis 1) predicted assortative mating by heterozygosity.

If indeed it seems at all wrong that in our everyday discourse we should manifest a preference for the hypothesis that there are macrophysical objects over agnosticism about the matter, it should anyway seem more wrong still that in our ordinary practices we should manifest a preference for the hypothesis that there are simples rather than gunk.

Under this hypothesis, preference for y- media in these lines would be eliminated if media containing yeast were not adjacent.

Thresholding was applied to identify those trees, which have strong preferences for one affinity versus the other: Any tree in which the bootstrap preference for one hypothesis over the other was more than 70% was included in this set.

Although we do not have a strong preference for either hypothesis, we do note that only the analysis with the ML/Bayesian constraint allocates the extinct taxa Zarhachis and Notocetus to the Platanistoidea, a result supported by some morphological analyses [ 10, 11, 70].