That he might be adopted by theory-driven, activist designers is a coincidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [SWEATblog: Medellin Analysis: Critical Activism emerging from Harvard's Graduate School of Design] Reference

What the NHS does not need is another organisational revolution, or theory-driven experiments.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Cameron's NHS reforms may leave him feeling sick | Jackie Ashley] Reference

In contrast to theory-driven research the proposal above, Nakayama prefers data-driven research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists arguing about the scientific method] Reference

My dad absolutely detests minimalim because he doesn't buy into the validity of theory-driven art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arty Wednesday: Art/Food in the Washington Post] Reference

Hurley freaking called in to say that he loved your podcast because of its speculative theory-driven nature!.    From Wordnik.com.  [LOSTCasts 79: The Incident] Reference

The undoing of the left is that it has allowed prudent statesmanship to be replaced by scientific, theory-driven ideology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

Although there are some good descriptions and defenses of theory-driven research, I don't know of one for data-driven research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists arguing about the scientific method] Reference

Anyway, I'm not exactly sure I agree with the theory-driven formulation, but it seems to be the way things often go in my department.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Question of Philosophy: Grad School Theater] Reference

The main finding in Philip Tetlock's awe-inspiring Expert Political Knowledge is that open-minded "foxes" are better predictors than theory-driven "hedgehogs.".    From Wordnik.com.  [EconLog: Behavioral Economics and Rationality Archives] Reference

The problem here is that when we should be theory-driven in our experiments, research will often uncover effects of pure sample noise especially with big samples.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Year's Puzzler] Reference

Data-driven exploration, one might argue, is more likely to lead to surprising discoveries, while theory-driven research is may only show you what you expected to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists arguing about the scientific method] Reference

Yes, the evidence is taught sufficiently to ground the theory, however we would be nowhere in science, or in the teaching of science, without theory-driven intellection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presenting Evolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The theory-driven tinkerer will focus her energies on experiments that will best tease apart the most important theories, ignoring phenomena that aren't theoretically important.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists arguing about the scientific method] Reference

I know childbirth was seriously deadly in western civ until the development of antiseptics and anesthesia, but I don't know if it was quite as dangerous in earlier, less theory-driven cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something to think about] Reference

As would – incidentally – a proper and rigorous study of the Media and its relationship to society, rather than the simplistic theory-driven pseudo-study that is often passed off as Media Studies in contemporary academia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: The Social Animal - W.G. Runciman] Reference

There are the theory-driven folks who seem to bend all their evidence what little they use! towards those goals while the anti-theory crowds make me want to pull my head out as they talk around the theory they vehemently deny they're employing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Question of Philosophy: Grad School Theater] Reference

If you are a theory-driven tinkerer, you would start with competing hypotheses that tube over there connects the gas tank to the engine VS that tube over there is part of an air circulation system and conduct experiments to tease those hypotheses apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists arguing about the scientific method] Reference

Even granting that a series of decisions does not amount to a doctrine, there is a question about the extent to which actual policy decisions reflect the application of a previously formulated doctrine, or are less theory-driven, improvised responses to temporally and spatially localized concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Relevance of Theory] Reference

One potential reason to favor data-driven research is that while theory-driven research is constrained by our theories which, at this stage in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, frankly aren't very good, while data-driven research is constrained only by your imagination and skill as an experimentalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists arguing about the scientific method] Reference

Schlom called the work a good example of "theory-driven research.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference

However, this is unlikely to appease the conspiracy theory-driven Birthers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

This class taught students about contemporary web technology as a compliment to more traditional, theory-driven computer science classes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Developer Network Blog] Reference

The slant is toward the conceptual and the theory-driven, with particular emphasis on appropriation and accumulation-all brought to bear on the idea that much contemporary photography and video is haunted by the past, often by its own recent history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

Much of that theory-driven work, critics say, is built on the same disassembled and reassembled sets of data points - generally from just the last 25 years or so and from the same handful of rich countries - that quants have whisked into ever more dazzling and complicated mathematical formations.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Global Home] Reference