"But this is the first solid empirical evidence".
So a gamble, but one based on some solid empirical evidence.
In other words, they provide hard evidence, resting on a solid empirical base.
A mountain of solid empirical research in the intervening years has destroyed this trust.
"There is no other proposition in economics which has more solid empirical evidence supporting it," Michael Jensen, a leading proponent of this school of thought, concluded in 1978.
On the contrary, solid, empirical scholarship has time and again demonstrated that incarceration does not reduce crime, make communities safer, rehabilitate, or deliver social justice.
Of course, physicians frequently use medications off label, and there is sometimes solid empirical evidence to support this practice.
However, many of these concepts seem to be to much more rooted in ideological contexts than solid empirical research.
No one will disagree that solid empirical facts must be acquired from a series of studies.
She provides a sprinkling of anecdotes and studies, but not a mass of solid empirical data, in arguing that kinder and gentler policies can lead to greater productivity and profits.
By 1978, Michael Jensen, another Chicago-trained economist, declared, "There is no other proposition in economics which has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Markets Hypothesis".
