lack of validity

The lack of validity of the study was later referred to by the Attorney General in the settlement.

We know next to nothing about the Watraii and the validity or lack of validity of their claim.

Thus, an annulment is declared only when an ecclesial tribunal finds a lack of validity in the marriage at the time of the marital contract.

However, the source later fights Monk and gives him amnesia after Monk discerns the photo's lack of validity.

However, this study was criticized by several epidemiologists for its lack of validity (see "Criticisms" in the Women's Health Initiative article).

AFMA has a unique mission in illustrating the lack of validity in the animal model in drug testing and animal-based research for human disease.

Widiger praised the NEO-PI-R for its development using a thorough factor analytic method but found issue with the lack of validity to control for social desirability.

As an explanation, it was suggested that the under-inclusiveness, as well as a lack of validity, reliability and clarity might have led to the rejection of the DSM classification.

According to Enrico Milano, a second legal ground for the lack of validity of the FPA with regards to its extension to Western Saharan waters lays in the principle of permanent sovereignty over natural resources.

In 2009, van Os proposed abolishing the diagnosis of schizophrenia due to lack of validity, and introduced a new syndromal definition, "salience syndrome", citing previous work by other researchers that explains psychosis as aberrant salience regulation.

In fact, Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director of the NIMH, has recently stated the agency would no longer fund research projects that rely exclusively on DSM criteria due to its lack of validity.

Russell J. Bowen concludes that although the writing and coverage were better than similar books then available; "Cave Brown's work fails to escape the common stigma of intelligence narratives: considerable inaccuracy as to detail and occasional lack of validity of interpretation."

They believe that due to "the massive investment the field of psychotherapy has made in the psychodynamic approach, the dying convulsions of the paradigm will not be pretty", even though uninformed or unsophisticated people may continue to accept the psychodynamic paradigm despite its lack of validity.

The dietary trial has been criticized by epidemiologists for its lack of validity, both internal (the desired endpoint for fat reduction in diet was not fully achieved) as well as external (a group of post menopausal women is not generalizable to all women).