"sound observation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a logical, well-reasoned opinion or conclusion. For example: After studying the figures, the professor made a sound observation that the economy had improved in the past five years.
But the study of the conditions for sound observation is, he suggests in the System of Logic, more properly the province of psychology than of logic.
The most clinically sound observation was that patients with high baseline and 4-week levels of IL8, and, most importantly, those with rising serum levels of IL8 during pazopanib, particularly those with levels encompassing 80 pg ml−1 at 4 weeks of treatment, had a significantly lower chance of responding and 6-month survival probability.
"Today's journals however, favor story-telling over observations, and congruency over complexity … Moreover, incentives associated with publishing in high-impact journals lead to loss of scientifically and ethically sound observations that do not fit the storyline, and in some unfortunate cases also to fraudulence".
BiO aims to provide rapid peer-reviewed publication of scientifically sound observations and conclusions.
Bilitza (2004) and Bilitza et al. (2006) based on Alouette/ISIS topside sounder observations reported that the IRI model overestimates Ne above the F2 peak height.
Trite as it may sound, that observation is a key to becoming comfortable around intimidating people and allowing them to be comfortable, too.
EBM claims that experts are more fallible in their recommendations (of what works and what doesn't work in caring for patients) than evidence derived from sound systematic observation (that is, health care research).
There are eight fun activities including letter names, letter sounds, spelling observation and memory.
"No cancer drug is as good as it sounds": this observation elicits neither surprise nor outrage.
If groups tend to focus on visual observations, ask about the sound they observed.
Watch @TenLateNews May 13 , 2014Oh dear, this doesn't sound helpful – this observation.
