empirical
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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
"NFL has made many rule changes based on empirical evidence and data information," said Kitman Labs founder Stephen Smith, whose firm provides professional sports teams with data and analytics to monitor player welfare.
From BBC
We picture an idealized version of ourselves—disciplined, virtuous, rising at dawn—rather than the empirical version that hits the snooze button.
The focus, Mr. Thaler writes, was on “on economics anomalies, which would be defined as empirical observations that were inconsistent with standard economic theory.”
We need the intellectual seriousness to treat this as an empirical question, not something we can settle with dogma.
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