Sentences with phrase «because of potential bias»

Those who question the validity of some of the comparisons from the insurance providers because of potential bias will find an alternative with this option.

For instance, districts are concerned that their placement policy may disadvantage low - income and minority students because these students tend to have lower test scores and because of potential bias in teacher recommendations.

Scientists should avoid them because they are imprecise, not because of any potential bias.

Not exact matches

@Vic: If you want to believe something badly enough you can convince yourself of almost anything, because when you want to believe something you evaluate potential arguments and evidence through the lens of a very strong bias.

The results of this study should be interpreted with caution because the breastfeeding team collected breastfeeding outcome data from the intervention group, thus introducing the potential for bias.

On that front the Survation poll is pretty positive about Jeremy Corbyn with people saying he came across as more trustworthy and in touch than his rivals (though such polls are always a bit tricky because of the choice of clips — Survation tried to iron out any potential biasing effect by having clips from each candidate being interviewed on the Marr show, so they were all interviews, all the same setting and same interviewer... but even then you ended up with two candidates defending their position on the welfare bill, one talking about the EU referendum and one talking about rail nationalisation.

Because of the potential for bias against new and unfamiliar ideas induced by the above practice I believe the peer review system of the NIH as presently constituted, has inherent tendencies to protectionism.

She makes the case that African - American students do not achieve to their potential because they're hindered by «society's deeply ingrained bias of equating blackness with inferiority,» the effects of stereotype threat, and curriculum that is not meaningful to them.

As discussed above, these variables are used to account for the potential selection bias introduced because of the differences between the populations at choice schools compared to traditional public schools.

I might be a little biased because he is my friend and the cover artist of an anthology I am publishing soon, but his comic is very entertaining and has a lot of potential.

CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Results should be cautiously interpreted because of potential respondent and recall bias and lack of review of medical records.

If however I move nearer to Earth and allow my domain knowledge more freedom to assist, which of course risks bias because all knowledge about a conflicted domain comes with potential and in fact (on aggregate) likely biases from both sides, my opinion is different.

Jones notes that research about the operation of confirmation bias has the potential to undermine the testimony of expert witnesses, because it has been demonstrated that a witness's prior knowledge of inculpatory evidence about an accused can skew even his or her «technical» evidence, for example, fingerprint analysis.

If the «maternal wall,» or the mommy track, as we know it, is a form of gender bias, then women lawyers are, in fact, being precluded from higher earning potential because of their family obligations.

A selection of potential defendants is beneficial because it opens up the opportunity to select a venue with fewer biases against or other inconveniences for your client.

Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially control for potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760 people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.

We used EHCs as recruitment sites because they provide health - related information that can be used for eligibility screening purposes, and their clients are usually willing to participate in health - related studies endorsed by the Department of Health, HKSAR.37 Although EHCs» clients are representative of the general population of older adults in terms of age and SES, 37 they tend to be more health conscious.38 To examine the potential bias (better mental health) associated with recruiting participants from the EHCs, we recruited approximately 30 % of the sample (n = 258) from elderly community centres with no formal provision of medical and health services.