It is also hard to argue with the empirical data that has been compiled, which seems quite comprehensive.
And just as the disclosure of theories and empirical data usually produces good science, so published code leads to better software.
"There's a lot of conceptual writing, there's a lot of theoretical writing, there's not a great deal of empirical data, " Miner says.
Why study and analyze the empirical data of a virtual game economy?
This study, which is entitled Shari'a and Violence in American Mosques, involved the collection of empirical data through repeated on-site investigations over several years.
Now, investing in companies based on insider transactions is not a new strategy and empirical data on the success of this type of investing is uneven.
Practically, empirical data and a modicum of reasoning combine to show that increased gun ownership by honest persons not the converse is the means to protect innocent lives.
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She zeroed in on how, despite New York City's success with the CompStat crime-reduction system, the influence of empirical data has barely trickled down to the local level.
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Nobody else will be able to use real flight purchase information to generate empirical data that exposes just how important things like wifi, premium seating, and in-seat entertainment are in driving purchase decisions.
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Of course, any politician who says Washington has a spending problem, rather than a revenue problem, is speaking from a position of anti-tax ideology, rather than empirical data, so a rebuttal is probably pointless.
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We invite your comments and in particular encourage you to be specific in your thoughts and proposals, providing empirical data and specific supporting examples whenever possible so this discussion can generate maximum practical value.
In a prime example of Orwellian doublespeak, this program is called "science- based stockpile stewardship" even though it is less scientific since it precludes the most prolific source of empirical data on nuclear weapons, namely, nuclear tests.
Also, many investors might be turning to gold for the first time due to volatility in equities and worries about global credit markets, and there is no empirical data on how much of this demand is likely to be permanent.
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Andy is the China Macro Strategist for CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets and always seems to come through with fresh, common sense analyses of events in China that are based on his own extensive experience, combined with a healthy dose of empirical data.
While girls around the world are not getting anywhere near the same investment in attention and education boys are, the phenomenon is not measured properly in many countries and empirical data is therefore scarce on the impact of women's education on societies.
Second, from an empirical perspective, the data would seem to corroborate what we already know from casual observation: The bad guys are much better at getting bad stuff onto our computers than the good guys are at keeping it off.
This is every bit an empirical exercise of discovery of data and analytics, another kind of research.
Quantitative materiality requires companies only to disclose hard, empirical facts such as financial data and any criminal convictions of management personnel.
Whatever the reason, the data herein provides compelling empirical evidence to what many people have long suspected.
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The studies will incorporate both existing data and generate new empirical knowledge.
New empirical techniques in merger evaluation, fed by scanner data and advances in the econometrics of differentiated products, are genuinely productive tools for estimating the market power of merged firms.
Health Grades is trying to make its doctor ratings more empirical but will need to recover the considerable cost of collecting good data.
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