Sentences with phrase «also more biased»

While Gumbel estimators exhibit lower variance than GEV estimators, they are also more biased, underestimating 100 year return levels.

Not exact matches

Saujani also called out the bias of tech - related curricula — and culture more generally — which she says is almost invariably written to «speak to a 13 - year - old boy from Silicon Valley.»

Stumpf also said if there was a bias, it'd be that the fake accounts skewed more toward young people.

«Parenting daughters reduces the bias that one has towards women, which leads to more female hires,» the researchers wrote, noting that firms with a greater number of daughters over the age of 12 also lead to even greater gender diversity in firms.

We all know that music can affect our mood — pumping us up before a big event, helping us get in the productivity zone, or providing a soothing soundtrack to our lowest moments - but a stack of recent studies also shows music can affect us on an even deeper level, making us more generous and empathetic, and less biased, reports Summer Allen in Greater Good Magazine.

Happiness might feel good, but it turns out it also makes us more susceptible to bias and stereotypes, according to a ton of interesting research you can read about in the post.

Companies like Facebook have also set up unconscious bias training programs to help employees become more aware of potential pitfalls.

The company also said it has more bias toward share buybacks than special dividends.

At the same time, projections for total planted US corn and soy acreage was reduced as farmers shifted to other crops; they are, however, expected to plant more soybeans than corn for the first time in 35 years.5 Brazilian corn acres also showed a downward bias.

This finding has important implications not just for the home bias literature, but also more broadly for the growing research and policy interest on Internet - based crowd funding, especially as a new channel for entrepreneurial financing.

It will also generate more of the cynicism about journalism so many non-journalists feel, and heighten the disgust for liberal bias that animates so much conservative activism.»

The irony here is that this bill would have actually increased attacks upon religion, as many gays and lesbians, as well as their supporters and those who are not biased towards them, are actually also members of churches, albeit more liberal ones.

But more than that: the dominance of this paradigm with all of its built - in theological biases has also been recognized as a block to more inclusive approaches to the material.

Studies have also shown that most of the common intelligence tests have a social class bias; the vocabulary and thought patterns used in them generally follow a middle class pattern, thus putting the socially and economically more privileged in a preferential position.

You Said ----» Also most Sikhs have a problem with so many checks or more checks than the rules dictate because they are a visible minority and it is based on a persons (airport security) opinion and ppl are generally bias, it's like dirty cop syndrome in a way.

Also most Sikhs have a problem with so many checks or more checks than the rules dictate because they are a visible minority and it is based on a persons (airport security) opinion and ppl are generally bias, it's like dirty cop syndrome in a way.

Survey results can be skewed toward any number of biases, but they can also... More

I also sliced the rhubarb more like celery rather than on the bias.

Also, I'm a UF fan, so this is more about a difference in analysis of a controversial QB rather than preexisting biases.

There's a trickle - down effect, whether it's from population effects, evaluators» bias or superior player development, that leads to tons more blue - chip recruits also coming from those states.

On that same website it also showed that bias does not in fact even out during a season, Man United DID consistently get more wrong decisions for them over the years and Arsenal did consistently get decisions against them.

Garter Stitch Faggot uses the same pattern row as Turkish Stitch, but it is alternated with a row of Garter Stitch, which makes the fabric a little firmer and more solid (it also biases thanks to all those right - leaning decreases; you could alternate a row of k2togs with a row of ssks to reduce this tendency).

The governor also wants to expand the state's hate crimes laws to offer more protection to New Yorkers who are victims in the increased number of bias - related incidents since the election of Donald Trump as president.

Instead, the study authors attribute the risk to «detection bias,» where the group of patients likely to take erection medicines also happens to be more health conscious, more likely to see a doctor, and so more likely to get diagnosed with melanoma than other men of similar age.

Our research shows that this strategy could be doubly beneficial, leading to smaller populations in the long run while also creating more male - biased populations in the short run with less severe ecological impacts,» Palkovacs said.

Increasing the energy levels would impact the on / off ratio of the device, perhaps also decreasing the power needed for switching on the device if more energy levels become accessible for transiting electrons at low bias voltages.

The average student is younger, less biased, more curious, and more critical than other members of society are; they are also not yet so imprisoned by status - oriented professional or financial interests.

Women were also more likely to attribute their supposedly poor performance to gender bias when their evaluator had espoused racist beliefs than when he was neutral.

In another experiment, the researchers used a sports video to test whether this slow motion intentionality bias applies not just to horrific criminal actions, but also to more mundane transgressions.

His undercover gun - show tactics have led him into situations where he feared for his safety, and they have also raised protests from some gun - rights advocates, who charge that Wintemute is more a biased campaigner than a researcher.

They also found that eighth and ninth graders who played violent games more frequently displayed greater «hostile attribution bias» (being vigilant for enemies) and got into more arguments with teachers.

GC - biased gene conversion correlates with recombination rate (86), and new GC alleles reach fixation more easily in species with larger population sizes, which tend to also have smaller body sizes (87).

The team is also embarking on a study of another female - biased autoimmune disease, Sjogrens syndrome, which has an even more extreme female bias than lupus, to see if similar X inactivation patterns are present.

It also shows that people exhibit a «social influence» bias, i.e. their attitude tends to become more similar to those of people around them.

People with the form of the gene that predisposed them to be responsive to big rewards also showed more choice bias from the most strongly rewarded characters.

Interestingly, the other people also showed choice bias, but more strongly for those characters that were more mediocre.

But the researchers» findings show that stereotypes may also have a more insidious impact, shaping even our initial visual processing of a person in a way that conforms to our existing biases.

The researchers also note, as the data is drawn from web surveys, there will be biases inherent in the respondents — the ones who chose to respond may be more experienced in the drug culture, and as such may not be representative of the wider population, so it is important not to interpret the findings reported as prevalence estimates.

According to Scherf, the researchers did not find any evidence of another commonly held belief that women could recognize faces of their own biological sex more easily than the other, also referred to as «own gender bias.»

Psychologists also tackled problems of publication bias head - on, he said, referring to a tendency for studies that are new and flashy to get more space in the journals than replications of previous work; that's the case even though replications are what show that science is strong.

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.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

Also they use a 5 × 5 ° grid for the oceans (or SSTs and Shakun et al 2011) and 2 × 2 ° grid for the land, and because of more data in the oceans, the global mean is probably too biased toward the ocean.

These types of studies can be biased because people with healthy lifestyles in general may also be more likely to take vitamins (and their lower cancer risk could be due to some other, non-vitamin factor.)

But more importantly, that sequel to the Rosetta stone of the modern sci - fi / horror / action film (combining not one, not two, but three maligned genres) also earned Sigourney Weaver an Oscar nomination for Best Actress — a confirmation that the Academy could look past a long - held horror bias to celebrate superb genre performances.

But it's also an implicit defense of people like the downscale denizens of Dorchester, wretched and irresponsible though they might sometimes be, from the easy biases of those with better, more comfortable lives.

Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, found a «disturbing» trend that includes not only more outright advertising in schools but also an increase in company - sponsored curriculum materials that often include biased or misleading information.

The results of this approach may also be biased in favor of schools serving more advantaged students if the test - score growth of disadvantaged students differs in ways not captured by the value - added model.

We also find that these biases were slightly more pronounced for black male students than for black female students.

Also, because the assignment to the FTC is not random, the more positive effects they see for students participating for more years may, as they acknowledge, reflect selection bias; that is, any student who stays in the same school for more years is likely to have better outcomes.