empirically

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The problem is that, empirically, the 1992 economy was stronger than the 1996 economy.

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  1. In an empirical manner; by experiment; according to experience; without science; in the manner of quacks. Every science begins by accumulating observations, and presently generalizes these empirically. H. Spencer, Data of Ethics, § 22.

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  • It's how students learn to ask questions so that they can be answered empirically, which is a skill that every person should have. —  Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
  • And so I started to think about it more kind of empirically, writing a book about optimism as a subject, and interviewing researchers about it and talking to people who are optimistic and traveling to places where people are optimistic and all of this stuff. ... —  CNN.com
  • Anyone who's spent much time outdoors has discovered this empirically, as he's inevitably seen it fog polycarbonate glasses, dissolve a gear sack, or destroy $500 raingear. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • But empirically, these framing effects are critical. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • Considering random sampling of the search space, we measure, empirically, the fraction of the true PF covered after p iterations, as the number of objectives grows, and for different correlations. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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