empirical

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It’s been decades since this view enjoyed strong empirical support, if it ever did.

From The Wall Street Journal

“There wasn’t a robust empirical analysis of: How do child care prices affect fertility rates?”

From Salon

This framework yields clear empirical predictions—ones that line up closely with what researchers have since found.

From The Wall Street Journal

The study, "An empirical view of the extended atmosphere and inner envelope of the asymptotic giant branch star R Doradus II. Constraining the dust properties with radiative transfer modelling," is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

From Science Daily

By developing a new high-density operating approach for EAST, the team showed that plasma density can be pushed well past long-standing empirical limits without triggering the disruptive instabilities that usually end experiments.

From Science Daily