Methodology
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A system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity.
The methodology of the research was thorough and comprehensive.
Often appears as...
- research methodology
- study methodology
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Academic
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The branch of philosophy that deals with the principles of methods, especially of scientific inquiry.
They had deeply philosophical debates about the underlying methodology.
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- philosophical methodology
- theoretical methodology
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Philosophical
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The way in which information is found or something is done.
The methodology used in this investigation will determine its outcome.
Often appears as...
- software methodology
- project methodology
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Technical
noun
A system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity.
The methodology of the research was thorough and comprehensive.
Often appears as...
- research methodology
- study methodology
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Academic
noun
The branch of philosophy that deals with the principles of methods, especially of scientific inquiry.
They had deeply philosophical debates about the underlying methodology.
Often appears as...
- philosophical methodology
- theoretical methodology
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Philosophical
noun
The way in which information is found or something is done.
The methodology used in this investigation will determine its outcome.
Often appears as...
- software methodology
- project methodology
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Research Specific
Methodology often describes detailed processes used in research or studies.
We followed the methodology outlined in the study guide.
Pro Tip 2/3Activity Driven
It is not just theoretical; methodology is practical and involves actions.
The construction project's methodology was well-documented.
Pro Tip 3/3System Structure
Methodology implies an organized system, not random or ad-hoc methods.
The experiments follow a strict methodology to ensure accuracy.
Pro Tip 1/3Research Specific
Methodology often describes detailed processes used in research or studies.
We followed the methodology outlined in the study guide.
Pro Tip 2/3Activity Driven
It is not just theoretical; methodology is practical and involves actions.
The construction project's methodology was well-documented.
Pro Tip 3/3System Structure
Methodology implies an organized system, not random or ad-hoc methods.
The experiments follow a strict methodology to ensure accuracy.
Pro Tip 1/3Research Specific
Methodology often describes detailed processes used in research or studies.
We followed the methodology outlined in the study guide.
Pro Tip 2/3Activity Driven
It is not just theoretical; methodology is practical and involves actions.
The construction project's methodology was well-documented.
Pro Tip 3/3System Structure
Methodology implies an organized system, not random or ad-hoc methods.
The experiments follow a strict methodology to ensure accuracy.
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Make robots smarter -...
you start off and your instructor might actually come and move your hand a little bit or maybe move your bow a little bit up. So they actually touch you in order to give you muscle memory. And that helps you understand how to do things a little better. And so we actually have a learning methodology where of course, we're not going to take the motors and move the legs,
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A Choreographer's...
I already have in mind what I'm going to make, where I've fixed the routine in my head and I'm just going to teach it to them, and these so-called empty vessels are just going to learn it. That's not the methodology at all that we work with. But what's important about it is how it is that they're grasping information, how they're taking information,
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Hope for the Congo PIPE ...
five and a half million people have died who otherwise would not have from from conflict and conflict related causes mostly starvation and present a preventable disease so that's five and a half million in 15 years right so that's a lot now some people have taken exception to that methodology and I've said well no you know really it's a
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Nic Marks: The Happy...
We don't have good data going back for every country in the world, but for some of the richest countries, the OECD group, we do. And this is the trend in well-being over that time, a small increase, but this is the trend in ecological footprint. And so in strict happy-planet methodology,
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From Farm to Table PIPE Nat...
thousand five hundred acres of wheat were lost that year to him the truth of the matter is that these farmers in Bangladesh grow more food per acre than he does within his industrial methodology in south Dakotah the other thing to understand fundamentally about farmers in the world
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What AI is -- and isn't...
using deep learning. And again, it's the same methodology. It's this magical thing. When you give enough data to a computer now, and give enough time to comprehend the data, it finds its own rules. And so that has led to the development of powerful applications
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Jimmy Wales: How a...
it's important to understand that our wiki model is the way we work, but we are not fanatical web anarchists. In fact, we're very flexible about the social methodology, because ultimately, the passion of the community is for the quality of the work,
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Steven Pinker: Human...
than if they had grown up together. Everything that happens to you in a given home over all of those years appears to leave no permanent stamp on your personality or intellect. A complementary finding, from a completely different methodology,
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How we'll become cyborgs...
NeuroEmbodied Design is a methodology to create cyborg function. In this design process, designers contemplate a future in which technology no longer compromises separate, lifeless tools from our minds and our bodies,
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New bionics let us run,...
Looking deeply inside nature, through the magnifying glass of science, designers extract principles, processes and materials that are forming the very basis of design methodology.
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Make robots smarter -...
you start off and your instructor might actually come and move your hand a little bit or maybe move your bow a little bit up. So they actually touch you in order to give you muscle memory. And that helps you understand how to do things a little better. And so we actually have a learning methodology where of course, we're not going to take the motors and move the legs,
Video examples
A Choreographer's...
I already have in mind what I'm going to make, where I've fixed the routine in my head and I'm just going to teach it to them, and these so-called empty vessels are just going to learn it. That's not the methodology at all that we work with. But what's important about it is how it is that they're grasping information, how they're taking information,
Video examples
Hope for the Congo PIPE ...
five and a half million people have died who otherwise would not have from from conflict and conflict related causes mostly starvation and present a preventable disease so that's five and a half million in 15 years right so that's a lot now some people have taken exception to that methodology and I've said well no you know really it's a
Video examples
Nic Marks: The Happy...
We don't have good data going back for every country in the world, but for some of the richest countries, the OECD group, we do. And this is the trend in well-being over that time, a small increase, but this is the trend in ecological footprint. And so in strict happy-planet methodology,
Video examples
From Farm to Table PIPE Nat...
thousand five hundred acres of wheat were lost that year to him the truth of the matter is that these farmers in Bangladesh grow more food per acre than he does within his industrial methodology in south Dakotah the other thing to understand fundamentally about farmers in the world
Video examples
What AI is -- and isn't...
using deep learning. And again, it's the same methodology. It's this magical thing. When you give enough data to a computer now, and give enough time to comprehend the data, it finds its own rules. And so that has led to the development of powerful applications
Video examples
Jimmy Wales: How a...
it's important to understand that our wiki model is the way we work, but we are not fanatical web anarchists. In fact, we're very flexible about the social methodology, because ultimately, the passion of the community is for the quality of the work,
Video examples
Steven Pinker: Human...
than if they had grown up together. Everything that happens to you in a given home over all of those years appears to leave no permanent stamp on your personality or intellect. A complementary finding, from a completely different methodology,
Video examples
How we'll become cyborgs...
NeuroEmbodied Design is a methodology to create cyborg function. In this design process, designers contemplate a future in which technology no longer compromises separate, lifeless tools from our minds and our bodies,
Video examples
New bionics let us run,...
Looking deeply inside nature, through the magnifying glass of science, designers extract principles, processes and materials that are forming the very basis of design methodology.
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Romesh Ranganathan
British Comedian
I chose to be a maths teacher because I thought the marking would be easy. You'd just tick and cross, whereas if you're an English teacher, you've got to read essays. Then they said I had to analyse the methodology. It takes an eternity, it's insane!
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Benjamin Bratt
American Actor
I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
A stock market index helps investors track the performance of a group of stocks. NRDC worked with FTSE to develop comprehensive and transparent methodologies that screen out companies linked to owning, exploring, or extracting fossil fuels.
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Samuel E. Morison
American Historian
Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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J. D. Souther
American Musician
I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.
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Lindsay Wagner
American Actress
I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.
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Richard Thaler
American Economist
The tradition of Chicago price theory is a good one, and it is a low-tech methodology that tries to apply simple economic theory to the world.
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Ashish Vidyarthi
Indian Actor
We make life difficult, and then we try to solve it. My methodology is to simplify things and share them with life examples.
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Walter O'Brien
Irish Businessman
The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
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Todd Haynes
American Director
Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.
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Romesh Ranganathan
British Comedian
I chose to be a maths teacher because I thought the marking would be easy. You'd just tick and cross, whereas if you're an English teacher, you've got to read essays. Then they said I had to analyse the methodology. It takes an eternity, it's insane!
Quote examples
Benjamin Bratt
American Actor
I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
A stock market index helps investors track the performance of a group of stocks. NRDC worked with FTSE to develop comprehensive and transparent methodologies that screen out companies linked to owning, exploring, or extracting fossil fuels.
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Samuel E. Morison
American Historian
Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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J. D. Souther
American Musician
I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.
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Lindsay Wagner
American Actress
I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.
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Richard Thaler
American Economist
The tradition of Chicago price theory is a good one, and it is a low-tech methodology that tries to apply simple economic theory to the world.
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Ashish Vidyarthi
Indian Actor
We make life difficult, and then we try to solve it. My methodology is to simplify things and share them with life examples.
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Walter O'Brien
Irish Businessman
The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
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Todd Haynes
American Director
Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.
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