0 relating to information that proves something:
Using only the most rigorous design, on the other hand, ignores the probative importance of replication and corroboration that multiple studies afford.
If we approach this problem by applying it to the case of probative statements, then it is worth making some additional observations.
The dialogue form of the paper means that it is suggestive rather than probative.
Nearly every attempt at segregation, whether due to an insight, assessment of probative force, or feeling, is frustrated by the general parity.
It could mean that the probative value of the evidence in question was unchanged by the examination, though that seems highly implausible.
Nevertheless, for the sake of argument, assume that my response so far to the objection is not probative.
On the whole, these three classes have generated substantially more, probative evidence to support judgment about their member therapies than have the others.
Indeed, these data suggest four important revisions of our understanding of experiments involving interventions and their probative role in theories of social influence.
