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  • "Rigour" without a falsifyable hypothesis only results in a net accumulation of data, capable of interpretation in an infinite numfer of ways.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Rigour in the analytical phase – mostly undertaken in November – was vital.

    The Reading the Riots project: our methodology explained 2011

  • It's about engaging students in the first place (see above, "Rigour"), involving parents more (they need to want to be involved, though - dragging kicking and screaming, parent or child, tends toward the ineffective), getting better in-class training on handling different types of students and support from better school leaders.

    Ewan McIntosh: Scottish Elections 2011: Our Turn to Find an Education Vision Ewan McIntosh 2011

  • It's about engaging students in the first place (see above, "Rigour"), involving parents more (they need to want to be involved, though - dragging kicking and screaming, parent or child, tends toward the ineffective), getting better in-class training on handling different types of students and support from better school leaders.

    Ewan McIntosh: Scottish Elections 2011: Our Turn to Find an Education Vision Ewan McIntosh 2011

  • The unsigned editorial, titled “Consistency, Rigour and Serenity,”does not name Landis, but leaves little doubt that it is referring to him.

    UCI takes jab at Floyd Landis in magazine editorial 2010

  • Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.

    Idle thought EliRabett 2009

  • Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.

    Archive 2009-12-01 EliRabett 2009

  • Rigour: more eyeballs and fingers exposing the weaknesses and limitations in your code, and gently pointing them out to you and sometimes fixing them themselves

    How to open source your stuff at Helpful Technology 2009

  • To remain there, and undergo the Rigour of the Law, allotted for such Offenders, was hard, or rather insupportable for an innocent Person: Besides, it could not be; for her Absence from her House would soon stir up her Husband's

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Importunities and Menaces, and at last grew angry to that Degree, that he vow'd I should never see the Sun more, 'till I made my Will comply with his, in marrying Valerius; treating me with much Rigour, or rather Tyranny, still believing, I suppose, that I must have some secret

    Exilius 2008

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