Rather than rigorously examine the evidence, some of it from leaked court papers involving the collapse of ISL in 2001, FIFA accused the British news media of spreading falsehoods because England had consistently failed in bids to host the World Cup during the Havelange-Blatter decades.
In making critical decisions, enterprises too often rely on perceived rather than rigorously analyzed historical patterns.
Biology courses remain largely qualitative and descriptive rather than rigorously quantitative.
More often than not, information on the civilian impacts of conflict is based on informed guesses by NGOs and multilateral organizations, rather than rigorously assembled scientific data.
The earliest outcome musculoskeletal measures were introduced in the 60s by Larson [11] and then by Harris [10], but these instruments were physician-generated and do not reflect the rather more rigorously validated patient-generated outcome measures we use today.
Where theory is used, it is often only loosely referred to rather than rigorously applied to intervention design and evaluation (Painter, Borba, Hynes, Mays, & Glanz, 2008; Prestwich et al., 2013).
There is no continuity, and the prize is not a lifetime achievement award, but rather aims to rigorously reward the four best exhibitions staged by artists under 50 who are based in Britain.
In an analysis piece in the magazine Frontline, the economist C.P. Chandrasekhar is more balanced, and marshals a multitude of facts and figures, but he too offers an impressionistic rather than a rigorously statistical take.
These formulations (formal discipline, identical elements, and general principles), when considered carefully, might be recognized as points of view rather than as rigorously specified theories that could lead to unequivocal predictions of the results of new experiments in transfer of training.
In general, the data are presented in an anecdotal rather than a rigorously statistical fashion, which may fail to convince many readers.
