Sentence examples for undermining the validity from inspiring English sources

"A lifetime of wealth was only one model away," sneers an American regulator.Moreover, heavy use of models may have changed the markets they were supposed to map, thus undermining the validity of their own predictions, says Donald MacKenzie, an economic sociologist at the University of Edinburgh.

For all that we know, our acceptance of modus ponens as an inferential rule might be due to the selective advantage accruing to those who use that rule, but, I take it, few would see that as undermining the validity of that rule of inference.

The potential introduction of bias undermining the validity and integrity of the study is another concern commonly raised.

In [ 1] adaptive designs are defined as: "...a clinical trial design that allows adaptations or modifications to aspects of the trial after its initiation without undermining the validity or integrity of the trial.

Three further papers report data for two species side-by-side, but in each case the species are closely related (MC references 6, 51 and 54), undermining the validity of any comparison.

109 There is increasing interest in adaptive designs for clinical trials, defined as the use of accumulating data to decide how to modify aspects of a study as it continues, without undermining the validity and integrity of the trial.

It was therefore impossible to define a control population with which to determine the OD distribution in seronegative subjects: inclusion of seropositive subjects among the controls would have undermined the validity of this distribution and the determination of a valid cutoff.

But he added that leaving out the terminus undermined the validity of any ferry study.

Secular explanations of the world (modern physics, astronomy, evolution) have not made the world less wondrous, and have not undermined the validity or the authority of our wonderment.

It undermines the validity of the ministry of every ordained woman and sends out a negative message to all women everywhere".

Republicans strongly disputed that contention and said the procedure in no way undermined the validity of the absentee voting process since it involved only applications, not the ballots themselves.