The precise meaning of this claim, as well as the nature and validity of the arguments offered in support of it, are matters of scholarly controversy.
The purpose of the present paper is to shed light on the validity of the conclusions offered by NICE; it should be emphasized that it is not intended to assign responsibility for any identified problems to particular actors (such as NICE, its committees, or the assessment team).
Professor Cassell says Miranda has unduly handicapped the police in pursuing criminals, although social scientists on the other side have raised serious questions about the validity of the statistics he offers to back up his argument.
He displayed the profits in his trading account as hard evidence of the validity of his methods and offered copies of his statements as irrefutable proof that he was getting valuable advice from his alien contacts.
Therefore the use of the HBM as a sound and useful theory, improves the internal validity of this study, and offers the ability for comparison among similar studies.
The American Educational Research Association proposed a different conceptualisation of validity that offers guidelines for developing a scientifically sound validity argument to support the intended interpretation of test scores and their relevance to the proposed use [ 20].
The work of Verhoef and colleagues highlights the importance of model validity, and they offer four broad headings under which assessment of homeopathy RCTs might take place: "representativeness"; "equipoise and credibility"; "model congruity"; "context" [ 7].
Shakespeare hedges the patriotic fantasy of English greatness in Henry V with hesitations and qualifications about the validity of the myth of glorious nationhood offered by the Agincourt story.
It also offers a descriptive validity of the situation, that is, an accurate accounting of the events that most people observing the event would agree is accurate.
Dr. Ronald C. Thurston, a psychiatrist in Ventura, Calif., questioned the validity of the Zagat feature, which is also offered by WellPoint's Blue Cross of California unit.
Haynes helped the company compile reports and offered opinions on the validity of their claims.
