John Sides, a political scientist at George Washington University, argues there is little or no empirical link between a state's economic conditions and its presidential voting.
Those of us of a more empirical bent maintain that the evidence argues for a much lower value.
Why study and analyze the empirical data of a virtual game economy?
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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"The point of singular differentiation about Meredith is its culture, which is collaborative, team-oriented and a minimum of politics, " said Mr. Griffin, who left Time Inc. in 2011 and now serves as president of Empirical Media, a media consultancy.
It is thus a critical and empirical approach, whereas non-economic environmentalism is a dogmatic one.
Does not having an empirical measurement mean such a judgment cannot be made?
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The findings suggest that contagious yawning is a good empirical measure of empathy.
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This suggestion is supported by a recent empirical analysis of the MID and home ownership in the U.S. by Professors Hilber and Turner.
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The book reviews the new theory carefully and in language accessible to the general reader, and then subjects it to a detailed empirical examination.
But implicit to the argument is the notion that, without a strictly empirical basis, journalism is less credible, and more vulnerable to accusations of bias.
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First, Loveman seems to run his business in a highly empirical fashion, using small, controlled experiments whenever he can to guide decision-making and boost revenue.
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So from a strictly empirical basis, since the money supply has actually been decreasing for the last year, the money supply change cannot be causing inflation.
In a less empirical, less technological, more insular world, the brand of school one attended did matter in networking, in gaining employment, and in negotiating a reasonable starting salary.
There is no empirical evidence to prove a link between violent lyrics and images and real violence on the streets, but many people in the music industry have accepted they need to do more to address the issue.
It is a complex tapestry that interweaves the empirical and the symbolic, nature and culture into a unified and unique indigenous vision of the world.
You see, I am a member of an intellectual community that values empirical research publications that are not necessarily read by a mainstream audience.
Professors Neumark and Wascher also offer a clear and even-handed assessment of empirical examples that seem to contradict the prediction that a higher minimum wage would reduce employment.
The point is to produce a body of empirical evidence that can ultimately be used to determine an evidence based treatment plan.
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The empirical evidence also points to a growing trend towards more ODI.
In contrast, many conservatives seem to have macroeconomic policy views that seem like common sense but are hard to square with empirical reality or assemble into a coherent economic model.
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The same order of top three finishers in the straw poll were the same order as the top three finishers in the national poll, and so to those skeptics who were concerned about the accuracy of the straw poll, the national poll provided empirical evidence that it was a pretty good representative sample of what's going on.
And empirical research suggests that there is a link between high dividend pay-outs and good corporate governance.
Indeed, Romanticism was explicitly and decidedly a revolt against reason, a rejection of the empirical presumption of the Enlightenment.
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"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.
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.
Contrary to Keynesian predictions (and a great deal of empirical evidence on the inflation-unemployment tradeoff), we were confronted for the first time with the combination of rising unemployment and inflation.
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In spite of what they believe is an obvious connection between the currency exchange rate and the trade deficit with China, the empirical evidence does not support such a connection.
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.
My company LRN conducted an independent statistical analysis of how things actually work at companies, small and large, derived from a lengthy and rigorous empirical study of observations from 36, 000 employees in 18 countries conducted by the Boston Research Group, The Center for Effective Organizations at University of Southern California and Research Data Technology, Inc.
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