Empirical research is a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience.

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:“ Empirical research must be based on methodological agnosticism with regard to religious and philosophical ‘ first principles ’, and must fully recognize the historicity of religious phenomena.

Empirical research on this topic has been equivocal.

The researcher ( s ) then analyzes and interprets the data via a variety of statistical methods, engaging in what is known as Empirical research.

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Empirical research into the question has been associated mainly with the names of Benjamin Lee Whorf, who wrote on the topic in the 1930s, and his mentor Edward Sapir, who did not himself write extensively on the topic.

After stopping in Paris, where he met Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Michel Leiris and Rene Leibowitz, Adorno delivered a lecture entitled " The Present State of Empirical Social Research in Germany " at a conference on opinion research.

Empirical research covering the last 20 years suggests that reinforcement theory has a 17 percent increase in performance.

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Empirical research was conducted which brought to light the specific distinguishing characteristics of services.

Empirical research suggests, however, that a number of firms do not produce at the point where long run average costs are minimized.

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Empirical research on the profit impact of marketing strategy indicated that firms with a high market share were often quite profitable, but so were many firms with low market share.

Empirical research thus lead many to believe that economic development either increases chances for a transition to democracy ( modernization theory ), or helps newly established democracies consolidate.

One can research their work through their professional organizations, the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media, and International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, and through such psychological indices as PSYCINFO.

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Empirical research regarding the consequences of OCBs has focused on two main areas: organizational performance and success and managerial evaluations of performance and reward allocation.

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Empirical research has been performed in support of this theory, as the meta-analysis of 104 empirical studies of the theory reveals.

Empirical research confirms that the greater the trade linkage between countries the more coordinated are their business cycles.

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*" Empirical research, psychoanalytic training, and psychoanalytic attitudes.

Empirical studies of signalling indicate it as a statistically significant determinant of wages, however it is one of a host of other attributes-age, sex, and geography are examples of other important factors.

In July 2004 the American Psychological Association issued a statement that DADT " discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation " and that " Empirical evidence fails to show that sexual orientation is germane to any aspect of military effectiveness including unit cohesion, morale, recruitment and retention.

Empirical analyses tend to support the theoretical prediction that poor countries should grow faster than rich countries because they can adopt cutting edge technologies already tried and tested by rich countries.

Empirical evidence is mixed with higher support in better studies according to Cronk in a 2007 review.

Empirical support for the social identity perspective on groups was initially drawn from work using the minimal group paradigm.

Empirical evidence to support either point of view is lacking.

* An Empirical Approach to Study the Relation between Ontogeny, Size and Using Geometric Morphometrics

Empirical evidence for the success of trade can be seen in the contrast between countries such as South Korea, which adopted a policy of export-oriented industrialization, and India, which historically had a more closed policy ( although it has begun to open its economy, as of 2005 ).

Empirical studies would find ' in the perverse relationships described ... an absolute absence of any shared pleasures '; while at the theoretical level ' perversions involve-the theory tells us-an attempted denial of the difference between the sexes and the generations ', and include ' the wish to damage and dehumanize ... the misery of the driven, damaging life '.

Empirical data gathered in Oskaloosa from 1947 to 1972 helped him develop the concept of the “ behavior setting ” to help explain the relationship between the individual and the immediate environment.

Empirical evidence suggests that unconscious phenomena include repressed feelings, automatic skills, subliminal perceptions, thoughts, habits, and automatic reactions, and possibly also complexes, hidden phobias and desires.

Empirical models that attempt to estimate the public investment and economic growth link involve a wide variety including: the Cobb-Douglas production function ; a behavioral approach cost / profit function which includes public capital stock ; Vector Auto Regression ( VAR ) models ; and government investment growth regressions.

* In the Center for Empirical Research in Economics and Behavior "( Cereb ) scientists working together of economic and behavioral sciences.

Empirical research on stigma associated with mental disorders, pointed to a surprising attitude of the general public.

Artists associated with Dune Music include Jazz Jamaica All Stars, Soweto Kinch, Denys Baptiste, Abram Wilson, Andrew McCormack, Empirical and J-Life.

Empirical problems with the H-O model, such as the Leontief paradox, were noted in empirical tests by Wassily Leontief who found that the United States tended to export labor-intensive goods despite having an abundance of capital.

Empirical tests with a 4. 2 GB fragmented file on a DVD media have shown that Microsoft Windows XP supports this, while Mac OS X ( as of 10. 4. 8 ) does not handle this case properly.

* The Nature of Judicial Proof: An Inquiry into the Logical, Legal, and Empirical Aspects of the Law of Evidence ( 1931, with Jerome Michael )

Empirical thermometers are not in general necessarily in exact agreement with absolute thermometers as to their numerical scale readings, but to qualify as thermometers at all they must agree with absolute thermometers and with each other in the following way: given any two bodies isolated in their separate respective thermodynamic equilibrium states, all thermometers agree as to which of the two has the higher temperature, or that the two have equal temperatures.

Empirical analyses have consistently found problems with the efficient-market hypothesis, the most consistent being that stocks with low price to earnings ( and similarly, low price to cash-flow or book value ) outperform other stocks.

Empirical studies have indicated that anxiety leads to decreased food consumption in people with normal weight and increased food consumption in the obese.

Empirical thermometers are not in general necessarily in exact agreement with each other or with absolute thermometers as to their numerical scale readings, but to qualify as thermometers at all they must agree with absolute thermometers and with each other in the following way: given any two bodies isolated in their separate respective thermodynamic equilibrium states, all thermometers agree as to which of the two has the higher temperature, or that the two have equal temperatures.

*( 2008 ) Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: A brief summary with examples In Rahul Banerjee and Bikas K. Chakrabarti ( eds.

Empirical studies based on these rankings have found higher living standards, economic growth, income equality, less corruption and less political violence to be correlated with higher scores on the country rankings.

Empirical evidence suggests that countries with strong property rights systems have economic growth rates almost twice as high as those of countries with weak property rights systems, and that a market system with significant private property rights is an essential condition for democracy.

Empirical evidence shows that Starve the Beast may be counterproductive, with lower taxes actually corresponding to higher spending.