The real debate is over unimodal versus multimodal interpretation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

But need to remember that the distribution of R is not Gaussian, and not necessarily unimodal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juckes and 99.98% Significance « Climate Audit] Reference

Distribution of R sample correlation between two independent autocorrelated series is not necessarily unimodal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dongge Cave « Climate Audit] Reference

In the remaining two agro-ecological zones, the unimodal rainfall distribution gives rise to only one growing season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water profile of Ghana] Reference

And were there some unimodal Gaussian distribution of genetic inheritance from previously isolated populations races, then ‘race’ would be pretty meaningless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups] Reference

And were there some unimodal Gaussian distribution of genetic inheritance from previously isolated populations (races), then ‘race’ would be pretty meaningless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups] Reference

Sharpe as strong examples for why a multimodal approach to constitutional interpretation is superior, and, I would say, far more legitimate than a unimodal approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

We might preach inter-modalism (the integration of pedestrian, bike, minibus, bus and rail mobility), but in practice continue to institutionalise and fund unimodal approaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speech by Jeremy Cronin during the debate on the Transport Department Budget vote] Reference

If there are mostly hybrids, then the distribution for that trait will be unimodal; but if there is a mixture of 2 parental and 1 hybrid populations, then the distribution will be flat-topped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference

Numerical Simulation of Sediment Transport in Free-Surface Flow: The case of non-cohesive, unimodal sediment transport in non-hydrostatic dam-break floods by Patricio Bohórquez Rodríguez de Medina.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Village Voice: US Dams Iraq While Damning Iowa] Reference

Where there is a well defined unimodal rainfall pattern, leaf fall takes place by the middle of the dry period and trees remain leafless for 4-7 months, depending on when the subsequent wet season begins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 16] Reference

If the fitness of organisms with extreme phenotypes is greater than the fitness of organisms with the mean phenotype, then over time a unimodal trait distribution should be converted into a bimodal trait distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural selection] Reference

It is a useful mnemonic to observe that the mean, median and mode of a unimodal distribution occur in the same order or the reverse order as in the dictionary; and that the median is nearer to the mean than to the mode, just as the corresponding words are nearer together in the dictionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist, Juckes and Rob Wilson « Climate Audit] Reference

Rick, you are suggesting that everyone on the left is “hating” and spreading “doom and gloom. ” Your assertions are so fallible and clearly you believe that everyone who is critical of our current situation is “hating. ” Please, do not take such a unimodal stance on the issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast PM: June 1, 2006] Reference

An analysis of existing research supports a notion that already has begun to transform instruction in schools from coast to coast: that multimodal learning--using many modes and strategies that cater to individual learners' needs and capacities--is more effective than traditional, unimodal learning, which uses a single mode or strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

Will we, one day soon, be talking about the problems of unimodal transportation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

This is unimodal training, as it engaged only the auditory regions of the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

While the real EOF is approximately unimodal (radial symmetry), the model EOF, especially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watts Up With That?] Reference

Stimuli were presented in blocks that contained unimodal visual (UV), unimodal auditory (UA), or bimodal stimuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Catalan J, Ganem G (2004) Strong premating divergence in a unimodal hybrid zone between two subspecies of the house mouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The unimodal type, where rainfall is usually from October/November to April, found in the central, southern and southwestern highlands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water profile of Tanzania] Reference

Macaluso E, Frith CD, Driver J (2000) Selective spatial attention in vision and touch: unimodal and multimodal mechanisms revealed by PET.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Auditory SDAs were isolated by subtracting activations in unimodal visual (UV) blocks from activations in bimodal visual-attention (BV) blocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In the north, the rainfall pattern is unimodal (one rainfall season) thatoccurs between April and October, while the period from November to March is often very dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate of Uganda] Reference

In the north, the rainfall pattern is unimodal (one rainfall season) that occurs between April and October, while the period from November to March is often very dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributor: Herbert Omari] Reference

All-ASA analyses were performed using a 10-way ANOVA that included three additional auditory stimulation conditions (two bimodal, and unimodal auditory) as an additional factor.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The effects of unattended visual stimuli on activations in medial auditory cortex were analyzed by comparing activation magnitudes in bimodal and unimodal auditory-attention conditions (UA vs. BA).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In addition we also analyzed all three auditory stimulation conditions (All-ASA) by subtracting unimodal visual-attention blocks from the single unimodal and two bimodal blocks containing auditory stimuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The lack of transfer between unimodal groups indicates no central supramodal timing process for this task; however, the audiovisual-to-visual transfer cannot be explained without some form of sensory interaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

A first main finding was that, when participants were presented with unimodal or bimodal congruent stimuli (an image and a sound from the same object), similar reaction times were observed for all object categories.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Although the performance of both groups on the discrimination task improved significantly, the participants in the multimodal training group exhibited a much larger enhancement than those in the unimodal training group.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Despite the ongoing harvesting in unimodal areas of Tanzania, prices are still above-average, suggesting that a supply response to high and increasing food prices is insufficient to countervail all of the factors that are pushing prices up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Database of Press Releases related to Africa] Reference

Craniofacial laterality in the scale-eating specialist Perissodus microlepis was found to be evident early in development and exhibited a unimodal distribution, which is contrary to the adult condition where jaw laterality has been described as a discrete, bimodal antisymmetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Most histograms that I’ve drawn have a unimodal distribution – I think that they look like a type of gamma-distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tasmanian Tree Rings « Climate Audit] Reference

UA = unimodal auditory.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

= unimodal visual.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference