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The earliest known use of the noun preponderance is in the late 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for preponderance is from 1681, in the writing of Nehemiah Grew, botanist and physician. preponderance is formed within English, by derivation.
Jan 1, 2009 · There were five logical possibilities: 1) the study showed essentially zero difference (Z), 2) the study was negative (weight gain) or 3) positive (weight loss), but not statistically significantly so (N and P, respectively), or the study was 4) significantly negative (SN) or 5) significantly positive (SP).
- Robert P Heaney, Karen Rafferty
- 2009
Jul 16, 2014 · Although much has been written on the history of the requirement of proof of crimes beyond a reasonable doubt, this is the first study to probe the history of its civil counterpart, proof by a preponderance of the evidence.
- John Leubsdorf
- 2014
Meta-analysis is typically applied to studies developed in fairly mature fields, but may be ill-suited for younger fields in which most of the evidence comes from studies that were designed for other endpoints entirely and that are often significantly underpowered for the effect in question.
- Robert P Heaney, Karen Rafferty
- 2009
When and why did the Board for Certification of Genealogists (R) stop using the term "preponderance of the evidence" to describe how genealogists evaluate evidence. Today, genealogists who work to follow BCG's standards apply the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS)?
The preponderance of evidence for a phenomenon only provides a more probable or justified explanation than other explanations at the present time (Kuhn, 1962; Meehl, 1990), but offers no final truth (McFall, 1996).
A Preponderance of the Evidence Human Development 1998;41:65–70 67 already existed by the time of Darwin’s publication in Mind, some of which could legiti-mately be characterized as ‘scientific’. However, it is fair to say that the focus of the majority of pre-1877 baby diaries, and the primary motivation of those who kept these
