The introduction of negative preferences into AHP often creates various contradicting scenarios that result in spurious and inconsistent decision.
Furthermore, screening for outliers identified 14 participants with inconsistent patterns of responding or spurious data and the decision was made to exclude them from the dataset.
This decision reinstated the spurious lawsuit, leading to the ruling announced on Monday.
Having used a spurious distinction to elicit a decision striking down government's power to make people buy things, the savvy libertarian legal eagle can turn around and attack the very same distinction in order to set limits on the government's current power to spend tax dollars on anything it likes.
It might be assumed from this observation that the overall quality of the enhanced signals is degraded more by underestimating the input SNR; however, overestimating the input SNR results in a decision mask containing spurious misclassifications which introduces disturbing artifacts.
Instead, these political advisors suggested that the industries' influence with government is via the currency of job loss arguments – however spurious – because "if you make decisions that cost jobs, that's a very serious political issue" [political advisor].
In this case, a spurious relationship may exist between the decision to have a civil marriage and premarital cohabitation, on the one hand, and the higher propensity to divorce, on the other.
"If you change the hurdle rate you're hiding away a management decision in a piece of spurious arithmetic".Spurious or not, that arithmetic should reflect not only interest rates but also the riskiness of each individual project.
It is interesting to explore whether these systematic reviews and meta-analyses provide the true effect estimates, and if all these groups are making decisions on the basis of spurious (biased) effect estimates.
If an Obama presidency is going to mean anything it should mean a return to reality based decision making, not some kind of spurious process by which ideological and political decisions are made in the face of evidence.
