Sentence examples for spurious explanations from inspiring English sources

The current review found that almost 100 papers (eliminated from the final analysis) did not use an overarching framework to examine their findings, leaving them open to spurious explanations.

Even if one could produce such a spurious explanation and stipulate that the chair as a whole is a bearer of information that characterizes its best location, there are no parts of the chair whose function is to specify that chair or its optimal placing (for example, by being similar to the chair).

An example is CANOE - the Committee to Assign Naval Origins to Everything (not a real committee!) - which gives an entirely spurious explanation as to the origins of "brass monkey weather".

Such a rating system could introduce a bias, due to the weighting of spurious alternative explanations.

In such a hypothetical classroom, is it really a catastrophe if some child comes in and says that he knows evolution is false and gives some wholly spurious scientific explanation?

Hence, if the PIN-specific attenuation is not a spurious effect, an explanation that remains is that it is due to differences in cognitive strategies in the preparation of incompletely specified imagined and executed movements.

Finally, all such "explanations" are spurious and trivial as they cannot supply any new true predictions.

Without reference to Reichenbach, the principle was restated in the 1950s by Herbert Simon (1954) as a claim about the explanation of "spurious" correlations.

Leydesdorff and Ivanova (2014) gave an explanation: A spurious correlation can reduce uncertainty, as when two parents reduce uncertainty for a child by providing mutually consistent answers to questions.

Though spurious at best, this explanation has been accepted nevertheless by some poets and redactors, such as that of Rawlinson B 512, who write dá with a long a and make Thó alliterate with t.

Another possible explanation for spurious associations is unadjusted confounding.