Such omissions can be a source of significant methodological error in embodied energy estimations.
There have been some three dozen studies supporting biorhythm theory but all of them have suffered from methodological and statistical errors.
Magnanti concluded in her paper that the study had significant methodological errors.
Those models, the report finds, contain "serious workmanship and/or methodological errors," providing a false impression of how the project would look when completed.
These increases are so large that one is inclined to hope they are methodological errors.
However, he also writes that the study is flawed and its results vitiated due to its methodological errors.
According to one reanalysis, this resulted from artifacts and methodological errors.
And, in Wagner's opinion, papers that contain methodological errors or erroneous conclusions are supposed to be caught by peer review and shouldn't be published.
The Council has criticized this act, saying it comes from "a small group" and that it contains an abundance of "methodological, conceptual and linguistic errors".
The only scientific paper published by Doman on patterning (in 1960) contains many methodological errors and overstatements of findings.