The major broadcast networks have protested that report, arguing that the steep declines in the first three months of this year were a result of faulty methodology in the Nielsen "people meter" system.

With regard to empirical criteria, research can be criticized on the grounds of faulty methodology in the design of instruments for assembling data or in the means used for measuring them.

The networks have attributed those results to faulty methodology by Nielsen, which said yesterday that it stood by its reports.

Doubleday said the $391 million appraisal was not performed with complete independence and employed faulty methodology.

Critics argue that the numbers are based on faulty methodology and questionable sources.

He concluded that while there was evidence of faulty methodology in the NIE, there was no political bias in its conclusions.

Assessing the Studies Scientists say that the Geiers' studies are tainted by faulty methodology.

Some (Turiel) have argued that this research is based on cultural stereotyping and faulty methodology (Matsumoto).

The original paper, so it is argued, rested on a faulty methodology.

Researchers were unable to reproduce Coleman's results on abortion and mental health despite using the same dataset, and have described her findings as "logically inconsistent" and potentially "substantially inflated" by faulty methodology.