It is an entirely empirical question whether damage caused by bad policy will or will not be outweighed by improvements developed by enterprising people.

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In my view, which of these approaches is best is an empirical question: which approach will produce the best broadband service at the lowest cost to consumers.

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Ultimately, whether, holding other things constant, women of color make "better" judges than white men is an empirical question that we are unable to answer definitively any time soon, given the small numbers of minority judges.

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It is an empirical question.

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This concern prompted 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts to send a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on April 10, admonishing the agency for its role in advocating a high degree of certainty that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change, while neglecting basic empirical evidence that calls the theory into question.

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Saying the question cannot be answered without some kind of empirical proof is to suggest subjective judgment is impossible, which is absurd.

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As he and other economists acknowledge in a symposium in the July Economic Journal, there is no clear-cut theoretical answer to the question of whether regional trade agreements are good or bad, and the empirical findings are hotly disputed.

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