Sentence examples for rather than observational from inspiring English sources

This was a statistical study, rather than observational science.

As I predicted, most students made interpretive points — "buying the car makes you classy" — rather than observational — "there is a wealthy man and woman in the center of the ad". At this juncture I jocularly reprimanded the student for being too smart or too interpretive, encouraging their comments to be more obvious, more basic, more stupid.

Collaborative relationships between social scientists and natural scientists are a key concept of HP pinpointing a professional challenge for the practitioners, as they are to become participatory rather than observational anthropologists.

As the BBN presented here has been developed using expert opinion (rather than observational data), MI is a measure of the perceived strength of connection between nodes, and the perceived value of the various observables in forecasting eruptive activity.

And the fact that it is the physical rather than observational equivalence which serves as premise of his argument is especially evident from his use of his earlier analysis of the concept of truth to explicate the equivalence.

Also, if you look at interventional rather than observational studies, a different picture is painted.

Because the study was observational rather than experimental, it is impossible to know whether muscular weakness is causing illness or is a symptom of illness that is already there.

He is currently documenting the transformation in science back towards primarily observational, rather than experimental, methodologies.

21 54 55 Other strengths include the use of observational, rather than experimental, data collected from a nationally representative survey.

But it also shows that when reviews are based largely on observational rather than experimental data, their interpretation is likely to be less straightforward.

This study examined the association between heavy alcohol use and risk of violence in uncontrolled settings (i.e., observational rather than experimental).