Many thousands more young people are going up to university and more has meant many things, including the dilution of standards, the dilution in the quality of teaching, a scandalously high drop-out rate, introduction of too many unrigorous non-academic subjects and at the end of the line, unfulfilled expectations and graduate unemployment. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For example, apparently one can earn tenure and a comfortable living in esteemed universities publishing unrigorous theories in “studies” fields like African-American Studies, and not only will other academics not chastise you for the lax standards present therein, they will laud and elevate you for them. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The show at Exit Art is freewheeling and unrigorous enough to support either view. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Such unrigorous standards allow inefficient firms to remain in the game. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Completely unrigorous but very cool - I think that this sort of hands-on science could be an excellent educational tool. steve s ❋ Unknown (2006)
I (and Webster, Emanuel, Holland) have been fighting “wars” over the data quality with people from the National Hurricane Center in the media and this has been very frustrating since much of the other sides argument rests in “appeal to authority” (they know the data is bad, even though they have been using it for decades and have previously said the data was ok), without any rigorous (or even unrigorous) uncertainty analysis. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The answer, in a rather unrigorous and noneloquent moment, is that I was not willing to be a pig. ❋ James J. Cramer (2005)
But, from our retrospect, for about 150 years the operations with the symbol were amateurishly and scandalously unrigorous. ❋ SALOMON BOCHNER (1968)
"I should think that such an unchanging, unrigorous climate would make a race deteriorate in physique rapidly," observed the Doctor. ❋ Ray Cummings (1922)
To this the drive comes on unrigorous lines from the street. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)
Think about that for a second: Fraudsters bilk taxpayers of trillions of dollars, and yet the government's studies of the problem have been complacent and unrigorous.
He also says laws that bar people who have been under restraining orders from owning guns, if those orders were imposed through unrigorous procedures, could also be vulnerable. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Biological determinism, popularised via the prism of an unrigorous and often politically conservative media, is now presented as a taboo-busting blow to feminist orthodoxy. ❋ Libby Brooks (2010)
Risk Management for Beginners closed with some unrigorous speculation about the peculiar incentives of fund managers, who are consistently well compensated in decent and good years and, in bad years, lose their clients 'money and move on to start a new fund. ❋ Unknown (2009)
No self respecting mathematician would let his name be associated such an unrigorous approach to solving a problem although very often, as was the case of the delta function, mathematicians eventually supply rigorous underpinning. ❋ Unknown (2009)
To the extent that the humanities foster unrigorous pseudo-intellectual charlatanism, our world gets that much more unjust, because no one has the good intellectual conscience to challenge thoughtlessness. ❋ Unknown (2009)
