How to Use methodological in a Sentence

methodological

adjective
  • This is now the focus of the methodological arm of my research, along with finding ways to reduce the impact of bots in research.
    Melissa Simone, STAT, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Second, not all of the methodological changes hurt Chile’s standing.
    The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • From a methodological point of view, that is the responsible stance.
    Seán Mfundza Muller, Quartz Africa, 9 June 2020
  • If it’s done in the right way, this low-level, super in-the-weeds methodological stuff won’t deliver headlines.
    John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Part of this is due to methodological flaws, such as sample selection bias.
    Will Flanders, National Review, 29 Sep. 2017
  • There’s a methodological divide over how to define the problem.
    Eric Roston, Bloomberg.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • That’s a much more involved process, fraught with methodological challenges and disputes (such as how to model the requirements of the Voting Rights Act).
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 28 June 2019
  • The claim is based on a 2011 Nigerian study, which had no control group, a small sample size and other methodological issues.
    Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2021
  • What’s clear, in hindsight, is that Culbertson faced a perfect storm of methodological flaws.
    cleveland, 26 Dec. 2022
  • That’s because the studies have been both few in number and beset with methodological problems.
    Hilda Bastian, Wired, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The gap between the two is accounted for by three methodological differences (see chart).
    The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Some of the critiques published by Key and Rose are valid, particularly on the subject of methodological flaws.
    Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
  • But Swart and Louise Biddle, a researcher also at Gothenburg, found a way around this methodological roadblock.
    Oliver Whang New York Times, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Moreover, the methodological quirk only affects the CPI.
    Gwynn Guilford, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
  • But the dollars and cents that result are downstream of a crucial methodological difference.
    Jordan McGillis, National Review, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Why did editors not ask how sound was this methodological approach?
    Sarah Wild, Quartz Africa, 29 July 2019
  • Researchers said the figure could be as high as 5,740 excess deaths, when adjusted for certain bias and methodological issues.
    Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 29 May 2018
  • The difference between them may be more methodological than anything else.
    Sigal Samuel, Vox, 4 June 2024
  • Others, like Simine Vazire, have carved out roles as methodological reformers, improving the quality of research in the field.
    Jesse Singal, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
  • To be fair, tax records can give an incomplete picture, but the problem is more political than methodological.
    Quoctrung Bui, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2016
  • The magazine ran no legal risks by telling its readers how not to commit suicide, so its editors filled many pages with methodological caveats.
    Anne Fadiman, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • Most pollsters did believe Clinton would win, and there were methodological errors.
    Dan Kopf, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2020
  • How were all the pollsters so wrong, again, even after the soul-searching and methodological recalibrating that followed 2016?
    Liberty Vittert, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Churchill says that any victory on such a complex task would be significant, but the magnitude of the breakthrough will depend on the methodological details.
    Tom Simonite, WIRED, 25 June 2018
  • They won’t be solved with either scale or some clever methodological trick that doesn’t change the underlying architecture.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 2 July 2024
  • At the broadest level, of course, science deploys all the methodological elements.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2021
  • Also in the running: An avowed white supremacist who made headlines after surging in one poll, though analysts now chock that up to a methodological flaw.
    NBC News, 4 June 2018
  • Basically the court said that the commission had to justify its own methodological choices and actually prove that the changes of method led to a tax advantage.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • There are at least 100 studies, some of which are decades old or have methodological issues, and most also have low numbers of participants, who are usually healthy younger adults, Simon said.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 24 July 2024
  • Studies that do report positive outcomes often have methodological flaws or biases.
    Sarah Jividen, Health, 20 July 2024

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