ebaadekvaatsed

Ebaadekvaatsed is an Estonian adjective meaning inadequate or not adequately suited. The form is built from the negating prefix eba- and the root adekvaatne (adequate), with the plural nominative form ebaadekvaatsed. In use, it describes something that fails to meet the necessary criteria of adequacy for a particular purpose.

In academic, legal, and policy contexts, ebaadekvaatsed is employed to critique data, arguments, methods, or conclusions that do not provide a sufficient or appropriate basis for drawing conclusions or making decisions. It can refer to evidence that is unreliable or insufficiently relevant, to research designs that do not meet required standards, or to analyses whose assumptions are violated. The term emphasizes the standard of adequacy rather than merely poor quality.

Examples of usage include phrases such as ebaadekvaatsed tõendid (inadequate evidence), ebaadekvaatsed andmed (inadequate data), and ebaadekvaatsed mõõtmisvahendid (inadequate measuring instruments). While closely related to concepts like quality and validity, ebaadekvaatsed focuses specifically on failing to satisfy a predefined adequacy criterion for a given task.

See also: adequacy, data quality, evidence, validity, methodological soundness. Ebaadekvaatsed is a descriptive term used to flag insufficiency in relation to a specific purpose, rather than an absolute judgment of overall value.

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