Data mining Twitter was their real world test (as opposed to something a little bit more rigorous which would take a little longer).
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Scientists have subjected Albert Einstein's famous theory of gravity to its toughest real-world test so far and it has prevailed.
As we only believe what we see, we decided to run a real-world test by releasing The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration agrees, of course, which is why it recently launched the first real-world test of vehicle-to-vehicle communication near Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Like so many CEOs in Northeast picking up the pieces, I would soon find out whether the Core Values on our wall would come to life in this real-world test.
Fortunately, we have enough real-world tornado data to test how well the competing predictions match up with reality.
Helping the nations devastated by last week's South Asian disaster stay off this track will be the real test of the world's charity in the long term.
Second, adjust the statistical results downward to account for differences between test conditions and the real world.
Armed with hourly data from its 5, 300 U.S. cash registers and close ties to its own roster of independent suppliers, 7-Eleven can come up with new products faster than Coke--and market-test them in the real world, instead of with polls and focus groups.
The research from China, which followed couples for up to nine years, was the first programme to really test this out in the real world.
Neither I nor any other reviewers have had a chance to test the battery life in real-world conditions.
The real test, though, will be whether the world likes what it sees on screen in the next few weeks.
Reggie will play the role of Ultimate Ears' first ever "Head of Socio-Musicology" putting his social music theories to the test in a series of hilarious real-world experiments.
As such, we decided upon a simple set of metrics that best approximated real-world threats, that is, to try to test for attacks actually used by attackers.
Analysts say another week of plunging stock markets has focused minds and the real test of this weekend's scramble by world leaders to shore up the international financial system will come once markets reopen again on Monday.
Of course, other things seldom stay constant in the real world, so the law of demand is sometimes difficult to test.
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Test it and then iterate quickly based on real world feedback.
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The auto industry has been working on so-called V2V technology for a long time but this is the first large-scale test to see how well it works in the real world.
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The next step for the research team is to test the process to see if it holds up under real world conditions.
The real test is whether it equips them for a life in the outside world, as opposed to a life in the military.
The right blend of qualitative and quantitative inquiry can illuminate the scope and dimensions of a problem, uncover root causes, and reliably test whether alternative solutions actually work to produce lasting change in the real world.
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My hope for this dynamic is that it will allow people to first play Star Citizen in a safer more single player open world style, but as they grow in confidence and want to test their mettle against other real players they can take the training wheels off and get into battles with real players.
World events have also cooked up in such a way as to cause voters to feel that the real test on foreign policy is more commander in chief than chief peacemaker.
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