Critics of academic elitism argue that highly-educated people tend to form an isolated social group whose views tend to be overrepresented amongst journalists, professors, and other members of the intelligentsia who often draw their salary and funding from taxpayers.

Critics of corporate-led globalization have expressed concern about the methodology used in arriving at the World Bank's statistics and argue that more detailed variables measuring poverty should be studied.

Critics of the SAP argue in favor of a weak anthropic principle ( WAP ) similar to the one defined by Brandon Carter, which states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias: i. e., only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing any such fine tuning, while a universe less compatible with life will go unbeheld.

Critics in Chile, however, argue that poverty figures are considerably higher than those officially published.

Critics argue that there are some phenomena which are better captured by symbolic models, and that connectionist models are often so complex as to have little explanatory power.

Critics of Searle argue that he is holding the Chinese room to a higher standard than we would hold an ordinary person.

Critics argue that content-filtering software allows private companies to censor as they please.

Critics of planned economies argue that planners cannot detect consumer preferences, shortages, and surpluses with sufficient accuracy and therefore cannot efficiently co-ordinate production ( in a market economy, a free price system is intended to serve this purpose ).

Critics, such as psychiatrist Niall McLaren, argue that the DSM lacks validity because it has no relation to an agreed scientific model of mental disorder and therefore the decisions taken about its categories ( or even the question of categories versus dimensions ) were not scientific ones ; and that it lacks reliability partly because different diagnoses share many criteria, and what appear to be different criteria are often just rewordings of the same idea, meaning that the decision to allocate one diagnosis or another to a patient is to some extent a matter of personal prejudice.

Critics argue that the Mondragon Corporation is not truly distributist because it denies both the importance of the family ownership of the means of production, and localism.

Critics of foundationalism often argue that for a belief to be justified it must be supported by other beliefs ; in Donald Davidson's phrase, " only a belief can be a reason for another belief ".

Critics argue that the Charter presents the history of German people as starting from the expulsions, while ignoring events like Holocaust: professor Micha Brumlik pointed out that one third of signatories were former devoted Nazis and many actively helped in realisation of Hitler's goals ; Ralph Giordano wrote in Hamburger Abendblatt " the Charter doesn't contain a word about Hitler, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

Critics, however, argue that their research was flawed.

Critics argue that MNT advocates have not provided a substitute for such a process of evolution in this nanoscale arena where conventional sensory-based selection processes are lacking.

Critics argue that to postulate a practically infinite number of unobservable universes just to explain our own seems contrary to Occam's razor.

Critics argue that this would lower the threshold for use of nuclear weapons.

Critics argue that farmers lawfully use large quantities of the fertilizer, and as of 2009, only Nevada and South Carolina require identification from purchasers.

Critics of this view argue that Oxford nor any other writer is not here identified as a concealed writer, but as the first in a list of known modern writers whose works have already been " made public ", " of which number is first " Oxford, adding to the publicly acknowledged literary tradition dating back to Geoffrey Chaucer.

Critics argue that it is false either because it is an over-simplified interpretation of behaviour or that there exists empirical evidence of altruistic behaviour.

Critics argue that about half the aid was a gift from the American taxpayer to American businesses, as $ 400 million consisted of incentives for U. S. business to export products to Panama, $ 150 million was to pay off bank loans and $ 65 million went to private sector loans and guarantees to U. S. investors.

Critics argue that conceptualist approaches only answer the psychological question of universals.

Critics argue that the absolute majority obtained by the winner of runoff voting is an artificial one.

Critics of racial profiling argue that the individual rights of a suspect are violated if race is used as a factor in that suspicion.

* Critics of sedevacantism argue that this also means that the theory advanced by the seventeenth-century theologian and Doctor of the Church Robert Bellarmine that a pope who fell into heresy would automatically forfeit his office and could be formally deposed has been overruled by Church authority by Benedict XIV in " De Synodo Dioecesano " ( 10, 1, 5 ) and by the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Can.

Critics note that Gurdjieff gives no value to most of the elements that comprise the life of an average man.

GameRankings reports an average score of 85 % based on 31 reviews, Generals has also received the E3 2002 Game Critics Awards Best Strategy Game award.

Critics have argued that if hunter-gatherer societies failed to suffer from " diseases of civilization ", this was mostly due to reduced calories in their diet, shorter average lifespans, or a variety of other factors, rather than some special diet composition.

Critics argue that there is insufficient data to identify the relative proportions of plant and animal foods consumed on average by Paleolithic humans in general, and they stress the rich variety of ancient and modern hunter-gatherer diets.

Based on 99 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, The Truman Show received an average 95 % overall " Certified Fresh " approval rating, including a 90 % among 20 critics in Rotten Tomatoes ' " Top Critics " poll ; the websites consensus states " A funny, tender, and thought-provoking film, The Truman Show is all the more noteworthy for its remarkably prescient vision of runaway celebrity culture and a nation with an insatiable thirst for the private details of ordinary lives.

At Metacritic, the film has an average score of 32 out of 100, based on 30 Critics.

Critics gave Titans an average rating of 84 % according to GameRankings.

Critics of this scheme point out that raising the average speed of Spain's regional trains would achieve a much greater global impact at much less cost.

Critics of the film, including McDonald's, argue that the author intentionally consumed an average of 5, 000 calories per day and did not exercise, and that the results would have been the same regardless of the source of overeating.

It furthermore got a 91 % ' Fresh ' in the " Top Critics " category, counting 11 reviews, with a slightly lower 8. 6 out of 10 average.

Among Rotten Tomatoes ' " Top Critics " division, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 17 % based on 35 reviews with an average score of 4. 1 / 10.

Charade has received generally positive reviews from critics, receiving an " All Critics " 91 % rating from Rotten Tomatoes, with an average of 8. 1 out of 10, despite receiving a 67 % rating from the " Top Critics " category, with an average of 6 out of 10.

In addition, 91 % of Rotten Tomatoes ' " Top Critics " gave the film a positive rating, with an average score of 8 out of 10.

Critics of this theory claim that it does not account for the improvement in batting averages from 1918 – 1921, over which time the league average improved from. 254 to. 291.

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 23 % rating with an average score of 4. 2 out of 10, Top Critics Gave a lower rating of a 15 % average score of a 3. 9 / 10.

Critics had cautioned that the policy change could lead to a drop in enrollment of minority students at CUNY's four-year institutions.

Critics of the latter development charge that it has not increased the number of students from economically deprived backgrounds attending university.

Critics are unhappy with having all students meet a minimum standard, instead of most students meeting a somewhat higher standard.

Tolkien is credited with being the first critic to expound on Beowulf as a literary work with value beyond merely historical, and his 1936 lecture Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics is still required reading for students of Anglo-Saxon.

Critics claim the forced integration has destroyed the School District and any concept of " neighborhood schools ": for example, black students from far east Little Rock ( predominantly black ), were sent to high schools in far west Little Rock ( predominantly white ).

Critics question the forthrightness of some law schools in providing prospective students with accurate information on alumni job placement and compensation rates, suggesting that law schools may distort their statistics to attract students.

Critics claim that a disproportionate amount of resources is devoted to khâgne students as against the c. 40 % of Baccalauréat students who attend a standard university ( faculté ).

Critics have suggested that the system is fundamentally unfair as it restricts the choice for parents to choose schools and schools to choose their students.

Critics of ALM asserted that this over-emphasis on repetition and accuracy ultimately did not help students achieve communicative competence in the target language.

Critics of the policy claim that it creates a " hiking class structure " system in which the more physically fit students are given preference to higher-level hiking groups and thus are given a head start to the day's activities such as eating lunch at the summit and drinking sodas back at the starting point, although a new system was tried last year where the members of a group were chosen at random, and where the order of the groups were switched around.

Critics committed to the ideals of the Haskala Enlightenment, criticized the system as a whole, claiming it resulted in linguistic and spacial isolation for its students and therefore impeded the integration and emancipation of the Jews.

Critics claim that Fernandes was not highly regarded by both the faculty and students, and many deeply suspect Jordan orchestrated her ascension for personal reasons.

Critics have pointed out that not enough students and school advisors are aware of the Speak Up Scholarship, however the program has helped five to ten students a year for the last few years, within ten being awarded the scholarship in 2004.

Critics of dual enrollment have expressed concern that high school students who are inadequately prepared for college-level courses may be deterred from pursuing a postsecondary education as a result of their participation in dual enrollment.

Critics are concerned that the effect of SAP schools is to take a group of academically strong students and to cluster them together academically and socially in an artificial, Mandarin speaking environment devoid of ethnic minorities.