adjective
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empirical data (= based on tests or experience, not on ideas )
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The theory is supported by empirical data.
empirical evidence (= based on scientific testing or practical experience )
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Where is the empirical evidence to back up these claims?
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analysis
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Primarily a political tract, it can in no sense be regarded as an empirical analysis of society.
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A more reasonable view is that the law of demand is just fine, and the CardKrueger empirical analysis needs repairs.
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An initial empirical analysis of national data series isolates and compares the cycles in different sectors.
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There are perhaps two basic lines of attack: straight forward empirical analysis , and analysis-by-synthesis.
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However, while the theoretical analyses yield precise predictions, these have not always been found in empirical analysis .
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It belongs to no particular approach but is a means of linking theory with empirical analysis to the betterment of theory.
approach
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Let us look at the empirical approach in a concrete instance.
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Britain and the United States, by contrast, are seen as the exemplars of an empirical approach .
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Although more oriented toward an empirical approach , the United States has exhibited some elements of the rationalist.
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Britain, by contrast, has a distinct orientation toward the empirical approach .
basis
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It is hoped that this work can contribute a better empirical basis to discussion about the adequacy of benefit levels.
data
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The important thing is that the empirical data and the theorizing are connected, not separate, things.
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Some empirical data compare levels of participation across many countries.
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Little empirical data is available on the searching behaviour in B, the direct shelf approach.
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One should be restrained by empirical data and learn from then.
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Explanations of both phenomena remain partial and insufficiently grounded in theory empirical data .
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Like Allen, I would urge you to provide a systematic review of the empirical data supporting your proposal.
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For classifications involve considerations of reason and policy over and above mere empirical data .
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Recommended changes had to be substantiated by explicit statements of rationale, supported by the systematic review of relevant empirical data .
evidence
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This is consistent with empirical evidence reported in some studies.
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From empirical evidence it seems that species that interact freely with others do so with a great number of other species.
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Good classification should have well-defined categories into which empirical evidence can be organized.
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It is a myth that is clinically naive and will not stand up in the face of empirical evidence .
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There is, furthermore, substantial empirical evidence of variations in local policy outputs.
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The available empirical evidence indicates that all three explanations have some validity.
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The problems come when empirical evidence is turned into totalizing theory, tendential strategy into achieved fact.
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Given the limited experience with actual personal expenditure taxation, empirical evidence is lacking.
fact
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It is an empirical fact that the higher the rate of inflation is, the more unpredictable it will be.
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For a decade until the late 1930s, people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact .
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Liberals may appreciate that conclusion, but it has little basis in empirical fact .
investigation
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Pride of place in this endeavour was given to systematic and properly grounded empirical investigation .
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The particular blend of instrumentality and expressiveness for given individuals is a matter for empirical investigation .
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The second kind has to do with the conceptual coherence of the theory that the empirical investigation is designed to support.
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The empirical investigations of Modigliani and Miller 2 were conducted on examples of oil and electric utility companies.
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Patient and painstaking empirical investigation would reveal the optimum measure of reform.
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What this means is that there is no way that any hypothesis drawn from Marxist theory can be disproved by empirical investigation .
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Hannah was a thing to be explored, dissected through detailed empirical investigation .
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However plausible this suggestion, empirical investigation has lent it no support.
observation
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They comment on, gloss, and interpret his writings, and spend too little time in empirical observation and investigation.
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The choice of ordinate arises from the empirical observation that A2B 1 is required for chaos.
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Both of these apparently contradictory statements are obviously true, but only at the level of empirical observation .
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Within a short space of time, Labour's traditional approach based on careful empirical observation of issues was overwhelmed.
question
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Whether leisure time increases or decreases as wage rates rise is an empirical question .
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Some key conceptual and empirical questions that you might consider in assessing the validity of each approach are listed below.
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These are not empirical questions to be resolved by the collection of data.
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Again, this seems an empirical question , and it is raised again in chapter 7.
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The strength and unity of the transnational capitalist class are, therefore, always open to empirical questions .
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It is in large part an empirical question , and issues and studies bearing on the topic are considered in chapter 7.
reality
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While the former resists the comparison with an empirical reality the latter is epistemologically founded on such a comparison.
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Only if this character is recognised will society be understood in terms that are adequate to its empirical reality .
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What always seem to redeem Hughes is his attention to empirical realities .
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A company that manufactures photocopiers obviously holds to a descriptive core belief consistent with this empirical reality .
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The empirical realities to learn from would be cases.
research
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The type of detailed empirical research reviewed above suggests that scepticism is to be strongly recommended.
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By far the greatest amount of empirical research on democratic attitudes has been done in the United States.
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Why does theorizing seem to be so much more prestigious than empirical research ?
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Articles by well-known political scientists discuss the central concepts and recent empirical research in many important subfields.
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They constitute no more than pointers towards an agenda for more detailed, empirical research .
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In the 124 articles we found that were related to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, we found 92 that included some empirical research .
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In doing so I will be making frequent reference to the empirical research findings of criminologists working mostly in the positivist tradition.
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But further empirical research has revealed considerable diversity in the roles of particular political structures.
study
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Importantly, this provided him with the working-class raw material for his early empirical studies of language.
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However, rigorous empirical studies have challenged such characterizations.
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Poor delivery dates and servicing facilities are further factors to which empirical studies have attached major, even primary importance.
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Now that you have considered these empirical studies , you should be more capable of undertaking your own study.
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A large number of empirical studies have attempted to confirm this link.
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There have been two important changes in the recent empirical studies of political participation.
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Such empirical studies of the sensitivity of results will no doubt be further developed.
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One obvious development is for the empirical studies to incorporate behavioural relationships.
support
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Note the lack of direct empirical support and the abstract character of the argument.
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Initially this was scoffed at as farfetched conjecture, but gradually it has received grudging respect and empirical support .
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There is some empirical support for the proposition that the likelihood of attack decreases with size.
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Although these types of theory are mutually incompatible, both regularly obtain empirical support in experiments by different researchers.
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The theoretical arguments receive empirical support from private systems elsewhere.
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He claims some empirical support for these predictions.
test
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It is therefore in many ways an ideal empirical test bed for assessing the validity of Pahl's classification in the 1980s.
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A recent empirical test of this hypothesis as applied to surgeons has provided support for it.
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These are discovered in the empirical tests and economic interpretation and justification is supplied afterwards.
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An empirical test of the relative decline of legislative power is especially difficult.
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Therefore, I will perform an empirical test on the relationship in the latter part of the section.
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The value of the hypothesis is that it leads to an empirical test .
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Therefore, I perform an empirical test on the relationship.
work
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How this study may contribute to theoretical and empirical work both on equal opportunities and the study of management and organisations.
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It is not the purpose of this chapter to provide a comprehensive survey of the empirical work undertaken upon this topic.
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The limited empirical work on the importance of uncertainty as a variable affecting investment decisions yields some support for this argument.
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Two pairs of concepts have been elaborated in the light of empirical work conducted in actual curricular settings.
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A related fundamental problem for empirical work in the elite theory tradition is the difficulty of demonstrating that a power relationship exists.
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However, there seems to have been little empirical work done on such courses.
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Philip Hanson's empirical work on international technology transfer laid bare the limitations of borrowing as a survival strategy.
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In the absence of such empirical work , it is difficult to say much about it in sociological terms.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His theory is inconsistent with the empirical evidence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hypothesis should have an empirical referent. 3.
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Allen also expressed concern about the empirical base for the category.
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At the empirical level culture and nature can not be discriminated in this way.
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Only if this character is recognised will society be understood in terms that are adequate to its empirical reality.
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The theoretical and empirical relationships between the constructed measures will be explored.
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Theoretical ideas are connected to the world by a translation into an empirical language more closely attuned to the observable world.