Sentences with phrase «affected by biases»

They know more about stocks than the average person, but analysts are still affected by biases.

As a result, the estimated global temperature trends are seriously affected by this bias.

In relation to apparent bias, the Judge found that «a relevant third party might consider that there was a real possibility that the [solicitor's] Report itself could be affected by bias.»

Of course, where the outcome is not favourable to the party, the same expression of humour could have a significantly different meaning, as it could suggest the decision may have been affected by bias against the party.

Not exact matches

On appeal, he argued that the Houston jury was biased because the area, and thus the people living there, was heavily affected by the company's bad dealings.

The crux of the act is simply this: illegal wage bias (based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability) occurs «when a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice is adopted, when a person becomes subject to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, or when a person is affected by application of a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, including each time wages, benefits, or other compensation is paid, resulting in whole or in part from such a decision or other practice.»

The various areas in which entrepreneurs are susceptible to the confirmation bias include: 1) identifying who the real competitors of the start - up are, 2) methodically and rigorously analyzing what the competition is doing and how it may affect the start - up, 3) understanding what the company's current and prospective customers need and want (it is usually not what one originally thinks), and 4) estimating the resources needed by the company to achieve its stated goals.

Pulled from a study by H. Kent Baker and Victor Ricciardi that looks at how biases impact investor behavior, here are eight biases that can affect investment decisions:

From a generational standpoint, baby boomers are more likely to be affected by the home bias than millennials.

It is impossible to definitively determine how much the NHS may be affected by non-response bias.

Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

Eyewitness accounts are affected by vision, reconstructive memory, stress, bias, perspective, motivation, and many more things.

But even our notion of what constitutes «biblical principles» is selective and profoundly affected by our culture, our tradition, our projections, our experience, and our biases.

Tweens typically believe that there is «one truth» in the world that is not affected by personal biases or perspectives.

Fixed - effect models are reported throughout, because these reflect only the random error within each study and are less affected by small study bias (usually the result of selective publication of small studies with extreme results)(39).

«Everybody in New York said they wouldn't be affected by the various potential categories of bias, but on our bias thermometer, born - again Christians and atheists lose worse than anybody else,» Carroll told WCBS 880.

The tone of the letter was not affected by the writer's gender, reaffirming that both male and female evaluators have gender biases that disadvantage women when they are pursuing traditionally male - dominated roles, says Molly Carnes, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and co-director of the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, who was not involved in the study.

Biases can affect your expectations of candidates from different groups, which can manifest as, for example, unconsciously evaluating men and women by different standards.

And when biased reviewers took more than 2.8 % off the scores awarded to grants from the nonpreferred applicants, the bias began to affect funding decisions — even though that number is smaller than the difference in scores produced by randomness.

Doctors» unconscious biases favor whites but do not affect high blood pressure treatment for their minority patients, according to a University of Colorado Boulder study, even though a previous study by the same research group found that doctors» biases are reflected in lower ratings by African - American patients.

It also sheds new light on the long observed but little understood «gender bias» of autism, an illness that typically manifests by age 3 and affects about four times more boys than girls.

They specifically wanted to answer the question is «the temperature rise on land improperly affected by the four key biases (station quality, homogenization, urban heat island, and station selection)?»

However, the EquineSNP50 assay is heavily affected by ascertainment bias toward a subset of modern breeds, making PCA results difficult to interpret.

Radiation biases are largely affected by cloud simulations, while EF bias is largely affected by soil moisture modulated by seasonal accumulated precipitation and evaporation.

The data on prepregnancy and early pregnancy variables may have been affected by recall bias.

The film explores how the job and this story in particular affect these characters, who must contend with their own biases and the ethics of keeping this information secret until the story runs, and it approaches the horrific reality faced by survivors with an abundance of compassion.

The Fordham Institute initially opposed the Obama administration's guidance under the belief that its supporters attribute the «entirety of the gap... to racial bias in the system,» arguing that «the racial suspensions gap [can] be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors [that affect the achievement gap],» such as poverty, fatherlessness, and low levels of parental education.

Standardized tests are often scored by computers or by people who do not directly know the student to remove the chance that bias would affect the scoring.

For example, the federal school discipline guidance jointly released by the U.S. departments of Education and Justice in January 2014 not only mentions implicit bias as a factor that may affect the administration of school discipline, it also encourages school personnel to receive implicit bias training.

If you can not answer this question, you are affected by confirmation bias.

They discovered that participants are generally not sensitive to poor performance and thus do not undo the trustee bias, which, in turn, indicates that plan participants can be affected by the trustee's choices.

The exhibition coincides with other shows and events that can be seen as augmenting its perspective by giving additional visibility to AIDS - affected individuals and communities that have been neglected due to racial, gender, or institutional bias.

And we are pleased to see Muller's statement that «This confirms that these studies were done carefully and that potential biases identified by climate change sceptics did not seriously affect their conclusions.»

There's no evidence or reason to believe climate science is significantly affected by political or other bias.

This bias would not have similarly affected the «corridor method» used by Hantemirov and Shiyatov themselves, since this method which did not preserve centennial - scale variability and Hantemirov and Shiyatov would not have been concerned about potential bias introduced by how their cores were selected on a RCS chronology method that they themselves were not using.»

(I said that we are all advocates here, and that we are all affected by the underlying mechanisms of motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, etc..)

It is my recollection that you have, in addition to complimenting Dan's work, on more than one occasion spoken about how his conclusions are affected by his own biases (or reflect motivated reasoning in his part, as it were), largely the result of his ideological orientation.

It is probably even less reliable than the land station data, even when we consider that the land station data is affected by the urbanization bias problem.

If a substantial fraction of all the weather stations from around the world have been affected by urbanization bias, then this could have introduced an artificial warming trend into the «global temperature trend» estimates.

If an urban station is much more affected by urbanization than its neighbours, then this process will reduce the bias to better match the neighbours... So far, so good.

A global - scale instrumental temperature record that has not been contaminated by (a) artificial urban heat (asphalt, machines, industrial waste heat, etc.), (b) ocean - air affected biases (detailed herein), or (c) artificial adjustments to past data that uniformly serve to cool the past and warm the present... is now available.

Several researchers have pointed to various other indicators as evidence of «global warming», e.g., Arctic sea ice records, ocean heat content measurements, or animal and plant migration patterns.However, all of these indicators are either too short to compare recent temperatures to temperatures before the 1950s, or else are affected by non-climatic biases.

So, it is quite likely to have been affected by urbanization bias.

In other words, it is unlikely to be badly affected by urbanization bias.

Having said that, we saw in Section 2 (Figures 12 & 13) that the highly urbanized stations are significantly affected by urbanization bias, with the bias introducing a warming bias of roughly 0.7 °C / century.

Even small isolated towns in the Arctic, such as Barrow, Alaska (USA) have been affected by urbanization bias.

Well, if you look at the bottom panels of Figure 32, you can see that most of the neighbours the program used are urban stations, i.e., the neighbours are also affected by urbanization bias.

A weather station which we know is highly affected by urbanization bias, the Buenos Aires station we discussed in Section 2

As we discussed in Section 2, we know that the Buenos Aires record is affected by urbanization bias.

Unfortunately, many of the weather station records used for these estimates are affected by urbanization bias.