empirical

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The graduate assistant grader gave the essay a zero, noting that it “contradicts itself,” “heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence,” and contains passages that are “offensive.”

From Salon

“Some of these people are substituting belief for empirical evidence and don’t accept the warnings of economists, Wall Street, Janet Yellen,” Connolly said.

From Seattle Times

The author excludes them all, asserting that belief in any kind of nonmaterial, ethereal world lacks empirical support.

From Washington Post

There should also be a requirement, they say, for empirical evidence, similar to the randomized control trials that determine a drug’s effectiveness.

From New York Times

That makes Oats’s mastery of his sport’s empirical data and math-don’t-lie philosophy difficult to call into question.

From Washington Post