It sounds like a classic example of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc logical fallacy. |
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This, of course, is a post hoc error, one that most Americans reject, root and branch. |
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He is part of an ad hoc committee struck by city hall to develop regulations governing raves and all-night dance parties. |
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The results of my study were negative, and the journal reviewer insists that I perform a post hoc power calculation. |
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Thus, post hoc tests, such as linear contrasts, template correlations, and pairwise comparisons are used. |
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As long as the evidence is not absolutely inescapable, we humans will invent ad hoc and gradualistic explanations to explain away these changes. |
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They could be distinguished from more ad hoc mobs, including lynch mobs, by their structured nature and their semipermanence. |
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Not just another ad hoc addition to the company of quarks, the charm quark did so many things in a simple, economical package. |
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So maybe the problem is thinking sins are relative to some arbitrary and ad hoc rulebook, rather than to our very nature and being. |
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No ad hoc studies on the incidence of mesothelioma in areas of Italy characterized by the presence of tremolite in soil are available. |
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The interface can be used for anything from ad hoc reporting to a reusable data bridge. |
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Sometimes ad hoc schematizations work best, to avoid showing unnecessary detail. |
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The ad hoc nature and the low cost of this forum make the unconference accessible to many. |
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We each became ad hoc Hobbesians, accepting that force and fear adequately established the other power's right to rule. |
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Young girls and boys were being interviewed in a police station with ad hoc interpreters. |
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It received the report of an ad hoc inter-agency task force on tobacco control, which consisted of 19 international organisations. |
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By the early 1590s it was accepted that a full hierarchy was impossible and a more ad hoc system of vicars apostolic adopted. |
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The Court instituted a constitutional rule that is party-blind and that disfavors systems with ad hoc recount standards. |
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The suburb is more of an ad hoc social development, a forerunner of the gated community, built around the principle of exclusion. |
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They can do so by ad hoc international agreements, involving two or more parties. |
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I also will try to contribute an article now and then myself, on an ad hoc basis. |
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I was one of two writers invited by the commission on culture and sport to help an ad hoc committee put into words a new code of practice. |
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These ad hoc units were locally raised and led, but funded by the federal government and under the overall command of U.S. Army generals. |
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Being able to redeploy analysts and form ad hoc teams quickly and effectively is a basic requirement for intelligence organizations today. |
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A contract of marriage may be made through agents acting ad hoc on behalf of the bride and bridegroom themselves, or of their guardians. |
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Being the managing partner means that all the unsolved and ad hoc problems land on my desk. |
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Sanjay, who had been endowed ad hoc with televisionary ability, narrated the day's events to the blind man. |
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My hypothesis that the watch is in your pocket because you stole it, is not an ad hoc hypothesis. |
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On this webpage we provide a selection of web links that are all related in some way to wireless ad hoc networking. |
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Wireless ad hoc networks are formed by a set of hosts that communicate with each other over a wireless channel. |
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We can't deal on an ad hoc basis with every individual who expresses a point of view. |
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What this paradox reveals is that Hegel's position on women is neither a product of contingency nor an effect of ad hoc prejudice. |
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The posturing calls in Congress for rollbacks in federal fuel taxes will die out, as will the ad hoc consumer protests. |
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No one site among the seven that we reviewed is likely to replace the ad hoc collection of travel-related bookmarks that many weary road warriors have already flagged. |
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But under the ad hoc rules of crony capitalism, the law counts for little and political hardball is the modus operandi. |
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Ad hoc guidelines developed in response to an outbreak of epidemic proportions in Great Britain have been implemented holus-bolus in response to one sick cow. |
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The ad hoc granular alliances described in Unstoppable promise less but may achieve more. |
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Loubani and Greyson found themselves inside the Fateh Mosque, which had become an ad hoc sanctuary, field hospital and morgue. |
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The outside comes in, in ad hoc bunches of alchemilla and marguerites, new potatoes, dill, basil, and bunches of mint, we wander out with cups of tea and notebooks. |
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Dr Fundanga said all that was needed was a comprehensive framework for enforcement rather than on an ad hoc basis because this would end up punishing some members unfairly. |
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Thus, from an ad hoc analysis of the mtDNA of mammalian representatives, we cannot gain conclusive evidence for a sister group relationship of dermopterans and primates. |
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In fact, their vertically oriented organizational structures, retrofitted with ad hoc and matrix overlays, nearly always make professional work more complex and inefficient. |
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He advocated the immediate establishment of an ad hoc reform committee. |
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Haitian neighbors helping one another carried out the vast majority of rescues, ad hoc. |
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Current practitioners make largely ad hoc use of statistics, probability, decision theory, graph theory, and tools from artificial intelligence and expert systems design. |
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For quite some time, unsatisfactory ad hoc arrangements in the form of special tribunals have been the only device to bring to book those guilty of genocide or war crimes. |
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But evolutionary trends are post hoc constructs akin to mnemonics. |
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In 2006, an interview phase by an ad hoc committee of members of parliament was added. |
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This may be a frustratingly ad hoc approach for those who yearn for the certainty and authority offered by the grand inquisitors of high finance. |
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His judges would resolve disputes on an ad hoc basis according to what they interpreted the customs to be. |
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The Inner London Education Authority continued to exist as an ad hoc authority. |
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Control of oil spills is difficult, requires ad hoc methods, and often a large amount of manpower. |
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Note that whilst one numbering scheme is used for Great Britain, roads in Northern Ireland are allocated their own numbers on an ad hoc basis. |
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Certain ad hoc official bodies successively acted as constructing and repairing authorities. |
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It also has 6 permanent standing committees and can establish temporary ad hoc committees. |
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The tribunal is an ad hoc court which is located in The Hague, the Netherlands. |
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The club's own teams are essentially ad hoc because they have never taken part in any formal competition. |
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In international relations, a coalition can be an ad hoc grouping of nations united for specific purposes. |
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During the 1920s and '30s, private or local community interests protected many coastal areas using these techniques on an ad hoc basis. |
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In practice, however, the plans were highly aggregated and provisional, subject to ad hoc intervention by superiors. |
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Besides the permanent three fleets, the Navy continues to organize the ad hoc India armadas, dispatched to India on an annual basis. |
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The interpretations offered in this section are clearly much more post hoc than in my discussion of the informants' patterns. |
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Our work on using research was post hoc rather than planned as an integral part of the original study. |
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In English, dummy object pronouns tend to serve an ad hoc function, applying with less regularity than they do as subjects. |
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Common examples are ad hoc organizations, committees, and commissions created at the national or international level for a specific task. |
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Ad hoc can also mean makeshift solutions, shifting contexts to create new meanings, inadequate planning, or improvised events. |
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In science and philosophy, ad hoc means the addition of extraneous hypotheses to a theory to save it from being falsified. |
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Ad hoc hypotheses compensate for anomalies not anticipated by the theory in its unmodified form. |
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The term ad hoc networking typically refers to a system of network elements that combine to form a network requiring little or no planning. |
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Yet, Hund contends that the fact that rules might sometimes be arrived at in the more ad hoc way, does not mean that this defines the system. |
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In 1868, the California Legislature authorized the first of many ad hoc Code Commissions to begin the process of codifying California law. |
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Evergreen operates a fleet of Boeing 747 freighter aircraft on an ACMI wet lease, common carriage, and ad hoc basis worldwide. |
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The concept of the unofficial title has been utilised ad hoc and relied on sufficient interest being shown. |
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Article 31 of the statute sets out a procedure whereby ad hoc judges sit on contentious cases before the Court. |
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This probouleutic format worked alongside Elizabeth's informal and ad hoc consultations with individuals. |
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Making this procedure more formal, however, may cause the employer to lose some flexibility to make ad hoc changes to the plan in the future. |
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They need neither jittery markets nor ad hoc protectionism, which has exacerbated past food crises, Torero adds. |
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Additional features for the PSP system include wireless ad hoc multiplayer for up to four players, widescreen graphics, new treasure hunts and more. |
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All the Chairmen and Managing Directors of the institutions should not be on ad hoc basis as the organizations with impermanent heads could not be put on the way to progress. |
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A ruling which has resulted in ad hoc amendments to the constitution to permit the state to ratify treaties that might otherwise have been contrary to the constitution. |
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This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc fashion. |
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Troops for foreign expeditions were raised upon an ad hoc basis. |
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The beauty of Noetix is that a person can run an ad hoc query and then convert it over to an Excel spreadsheet and still have it be complete with drill down information. |
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Local education authorities are not usually ad hoc or standalone authorities, although the former Inner London Education Authority was one example of this. |
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Constituency boundaries have changed on various occasions, and are now subject to both periodical and ad hoc reviews of the Boundary Commission for Scotland. |
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The first local ginger group came into existence in 1796, when typhus among cotton-mill employees led public-spirited Manchester physicians to organise an ad hoc health board. |
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Then came the Rickies, followed by the Lucies, the Harlequins, and other ad hoc groups who marched in the parade to prove who could waste time in the zaniest way. |
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In the military, ad hoc units are created during unpredictable situations, when the cooperation between different units is suddenly needed for fast action. |
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Some ad hoc letters have appeared in the literature for the retroflex lateral flap, the voiceless lateral fricatives, the epiglottal trill, and the labiodental plosives. |
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Council President John Ferraro, who heads the ad hoc committee, blamed the Federal Emergency Management Agency for delays in finalizing the federal grant. |
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Council President John Ferraro, who heads the ad hoc committee weighing the issue, blamed the Federal Emergency Management Agency for delays in finalizing the federal grant. |
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During the dozen years or so since the R2P concept was formulated, its application has been complicated and ad hoc. |
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Originally appointed ad hoc, a reform in 802 led to the office of missus dominicus becoming a permanent one. |
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Prior to 1994, although various central government departments had different regional offices, the regions they used tended to be different and ad hoc. |
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Ultimately, the wisdom of preemption will be judged post hoc. |
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During the 15th century, orders of chivalry, or dynastic orders of knighthood, began to be created in a more courtly fashion that could be created ad hoc. |
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