Sentences with phrase «about issues of bias»

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@ harry barracuda, words such as u used to describe an event, eagerly anticipated by a population of about 500 million people, shows how stupid and insensitive people such as you can be, the African nations cup is not,» stupid, crap, pointless or in your words f**king thing,» if that is the case, then you are implying that such players that represent their nation, do that for a «crap pointless stupid f**king reason.Get a grip my friend, this is a place to dicuss arsenal related issues, not a forum for your biased foolishness.And, oh yeah KOLO stays.

A lengthy, well - researched, and powerful article in the Spring 2015 issue of the NCAA's Champion magazine, not only reports the belief of many top concussion experts that the media narrative about sports - related concussion trace has been dominated by media reports on the work of Dr. Ann McKee, which was the centerpiece of PBS Frontline's League of Denial, but Dr. McKee's, however belated, mea culpa that «There's no question [that her autopsies finding evidence of CTE in the brains of most of the former athletes were] a very biased study,» that they involved «a certain level of... sensationalism», that there were «times when it's overblown» and went «a little too far.»

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

My point was that the non-scientists Will and Crichton should be listened to because they are giving testimony about the possibility of social - political issues involving bias.

The research, published in the journal Obesity, showed that higher levels of «weight - bias internalization» — the term for what happens when people are aware of negative stereotypes about obesity and apply those stereotypes to themselves — were associated with more cases of metabolic syndrome, a combination of health issues that raise the risk for heart disease and diabetes.

There are significant unresolved issues in all studies - about the adequacy of controls for family background, the possibility of differential bias at different levels of aggregation, and the use of weak measures of achievement and spending.

-- Ralph Müller - Eiselt Biased algorithms are everywhere, so at a critical moment in the evolution of machine learning and AI, why aren't we talking about the societal issues this poses?

Instead of basic workshops about bullying, Villenas says more targeted information about bias - based bullying, specifically, would help teachers understand the issues faced by particular subgroups in their schools and how they play out among students.

No surprise, I guess, that none of the other «issues» about which the EVAAS has been continuously questioned and critiqued were addressed in this article (e.g., about fairness and the teachers who are not TVAAS eligible, validity or the lack of relationships between the TVAAS and other indicators of quality in Tennessee, subject and grade level bias, as written about here and here, etc.).

However, he said, «This is a very difficult time to talk about race,» adding that racism and racial bias sometimes do not «explain the entirety» of an issue.

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

The article Prophet Among Pinstripes in the April 2006 issue of Fastcompany magazine features James Montier where he gives his five laws about investing bias, evolution, and true happiness.

There is a lot of evidence for all the arguments, but about half can be interpreted as bias or ignorance on gender issues depending on who is delivering it.

My point was that the non-scientists Will and Crichton should be listened to because they are giving testimony about the possibility of social - political issues involving bias.

If you don't understand the psychological biases and heuristics that technical experts, policy - makers, and the general public, use in thinking about uncertain risks, you won't be able to communicate effectively because people will unconsciously distort what you say to fit their preconceived (possibly faulty) mental model of the issue (see M. Granger Morgan, «Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach» (Cambridge, 2001) for solid empirical evidence of this problem and how to avoid it.

Sorry, Judith; but I fail to see why an article by a completely biased author who's stated goal is to advocate a position and not learn about an issue is a «must read» The military does contingency planning for a very wide range of potential issues / concerns.

In their quest for real science the pair admit they learned «tough lessons about politics, bias and the challenges of doing good science» on this similarly polemicized issue.

Maybe you're smarter than the predominant opinion among experts — but two questions need to be asked: (1) to what degree is your view of the evidenced biased by your ideological identity (you clearly have a very strong ideological identity on this issue) and, (2) how could you possibly state a certainty about such a counterfactual in such a highly uncertain context?

Given what seems to be the overall appearance of political bias at NPR from failing to tell the complete story of the global warming issue — a problem I first mentioned in 2011 here — there might not have been any need for Michael Oreskes to quash negative stories about his sister.

The fact is, most people really don't know what the actual climate change issue is, let alone know a lot of detailed, accurate information about it, so all these strong «opinions» — most at odds with the the assertions of the scientists in directly related fields who professionally study this issue — is another indicator that bias and desire and an enormous host of misinformation drives perception on this issue.

And which, at its core, if seemingly complicated on this issue (and highly colored by non recognized bias, ideological belief, conflation of the topic with fear of redress, and a remarkable sea of misinformation) is about as basic a mistake as can be made.

Well, according to Charles Taber and Milton Lodge of Stony Brook, one insidious aspect of motivated reasoning is that political sophisticates are prone to be more biased than those who know less about the issues.

The most unforgiveable unethical behavior surrounding the entire issue of «hiding the decline» and similar biases in published research, is when climate change scientists who know about their — «cherry picking the data», — biased and selective presentation of all data pertinent to published paper conclusions, and — outright errors in their data and peer - reviewed papers, don't speak out loudly in the media outlets that have misled the general public in reporting about their flawed, misleading research, as well as, associated journals and professional societies, to stop politicians and government regulators from using their flawed and misleading research results to pass laws and regulations that have severe effects on the prosperity and quality of life of their fellow citizens of the US and the world.

Self - represented applicants at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario have raised the issue of bias directly or indirectly through expressed concerns about lawyers on the Tribunal's practice advisory committee appearing for respondents: see Guilmoutdinov v. Ontario College of Teachers (2009 HRTO 2130), for example, where the adjudicator noted that advisory committees were frequently used by tribunals to promote responsiveness to the communities they serve and concluded that membership on the committee did not create a reasonable apprehension of bias.

If your friends and family testify about the facts and issues of your case, they may also be viewed as biased.

For details about the neuroscience behind the benefits of routine behaviour, see the article «Reduce communication - related claims by understanding cognitive biases» in the February 2017 issue of LawPRO Magazine.

Many teachers don't have the confidence to broach issues about prejudice or bias in case they say the wrong thing, but they could be skilled up to do this sort of work.»

He replied «No, but I would not waste my time debating issues with ignoramuses who do not have to stones to at least address your reasoned defense of your way of conducting business in this world, else you may end up with the mindset of your attackers who give in to the easy way of thinking, or not, being subscribing to the impulse to take the easy route to decision making, i.e.; seriously dealing with and accepting hearsay, misinformation, media bias and just plain nastyness as the way to actually factually learn about the realities of the real estate industry, causing your brain Brian to deteriorate to the point of needing at least a minor tune - up.»