Sentence examples for testing a theory from inspiring English sources

Testing a theory, revising it.

Dr. Cutler said he was testing a theory that the injections could cure epilepsy.

But the Hopkins study was apparently of a type known as a challenge experiment, testing a theory about how the body responds to various stimuli.

Andreessen Horowitz will be testing a theory of investing, one that has lost favor in recent years in Silicon Valley, that smaller funds making smaller investments in very young companies will yield higher returns.

In a wide-ranging book mistrustful of psychiatry's diagnostic methods, Ronson begins by testing a theory he has that psychopaths are disproportionately represented among those in positions of power, using the checklist to analyze such figures as a Haitian death-squad leader and a callous C.E.O.; he ends by critiquing the very notion of categorizing people by means of such a test.

That applies even among urban Westerners who rarely see an animal from one year's end to the next.Dr New was testing a theory of mind originally developed by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby of the University of California, Santa Barbara, with whom he collaborated on the experiment.

This pleads for testing a theory-based anxiety program in young children with elevated levels of anxiety.

This is one of few trials testing a theory-based diabetes self-management intervention tailored to low-income Spanish-speaking primarily Caribbean Latinos.

I am also here to test a theory.

Progress generally comes not from theories but from someone finding a clever way to test a theory".

That will test a theory put forward just a few weeks ago by Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University.