Sentences with phrase «bias because»

I love all the gray, but I'm kind of bias because our house is gray.

Appraisals of negative exchanges may be most accurate and least susceptible to recall bias because negative experiences are less common and thus more salient than positive ones (Tversky & Kahneman, 1981).

Although time - use diaries are a valid and accurate method of measuring television viewing, they may be limited by recall bias because they are filled out for the previous day.

The defendant unsuccessfully sought to disqualify Justice Robert Beaudoin on the grounds of reasonable apprehension of bias because there was a scholarship in honour of Justice Beaudoin's deceased son at the University of Ottawa where his son had attended which was funded by the Beaudoin family and the Government of Ontario.

«I have an internal bias because I was an articling student with the former Regional Municipality of Ottawa - Carleton 24 years ago, I was asked to work for the region after I articled,» he says.

The Judge ruled that the Council had the power to investigate the allegations under s. 28 of the Localism Act 2011 and other provisions, and dismissed claims that the Council's process was vitiated by actual or apparent bias because of comments made by an external investigator.

If you agree to allow WorkSafe BC to pursue the ICBC claim for you through their in - house lawyers, there is a perceived bias because the WorkSafe BC lawyer is acting for WorkSafe BC and being paid by WorkSafe BC so how much is the lawyer going to really pursue your claim if they are able to settle with ICBC at a number large enough to get all of WorkSafe BC's money back plus the 28 %?

To illustrate the problem with accusing judges of bias, given the term's various meanings, the article focuses on recent federal litigation over NYC police stop - and - frisk policy in which (1) the district judge found «implicit bias» in police practices based on accumulated evidence and expert analysis, (2) the Second Circuit found that the district judge engaged in disqualifying judicial bias because of her comments in a prior related lawsuit and in the media, and (3) critics accused the Second Circuit of bias in making decisions that were hard to justify on either procedural or substantive grounds.

But careful legal writers also avoid all sentence adverbs that express a personal sentiment or bias because how a lawyer feels about a factual or legal contention is irrelevant.

We know the old temperatures have a bias because of how they were measured.

It says they have more «trust» in the contaminated data than the uncontaminated data and that reeks of confirmation bias because the contamination moves the trend in the same direction as their hypothesis.

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.

It shouldn't be surprising that the UHI effect is not a big source of error in the temperature trend, because a stable temperature bias because of bad siting will not affect the trend.

As Robert Way pointed out in the comments under her post, Lewis and Curry used a global temperature dataset which has a known cool bias because large portions of the Arctic are excluded.

As you say, it still is affected by selection bias because it is also useful only if there is some clear (though not necessarily linear) empirical relationship between something observable and climate predictions.

In other words, nobody went out and did transects in places with bats to survey for MMEs - this study just looks at reports of MMEs however they came to be, creating a significant bias because what gets reported is not even an attempt at a random survey of MMEs.

Perhaps the cognitive ability to consider variations that might be more successful has some correlation with the liberal political bias because the authoritarian preference for fixed forms among conservatives is less adaptive.

You think I have a pro-myth anti-science bias because I don't want discussions to get derailed by repetitive and uninformative discussions that have been hacked to death in almost every other blog site to no result whatsoever?

I think that some people automatically reject such justifiably apocalyptic language as «exaggerated» because they have an a priori bias that such consequences are «unthinkable» and simply can not happen, which is an understandable bias because we are talking of changes that are entirely outside the realm of human experience throughout the history of our species.

Or you come to school one morning and the principal wants to see you because a parent of one of your students has accused you of political bias because you taught what scientists agree about: that the Earth is getting warmer, and human actions have had an important role in this warming.

I just said that it was just a poor video construed as bias because it was off the mark.

I'm a little bias because I was raised with boxers but in my experience all my boxers have been extremely affectionate and perfect with children of all ages but when they feel their family is threatened they become fierce protectors.

Value strategies are especially sensitive to survivorship bias because value companies become delisted more often than growth companies.

With an open mindset, you aren't surprised by a move against your bias because you have accounted for all possibilities.

«I did not like the survivorship bias because the companies that were closed still needed to be factored into the study.»

It's easier for Canadian investors to achieve a portfolio with substantial home bias because, unlike the U.S., Japan and Europe, Canada's economy and financial markets are a relatively small share of the overall pie.

So we are trying to build a portfolio that can survive different outcomes and it is going to have a conservative bias because the one thing we know is most assets are expensive.

Plus there's bias because of me being involved in Kindle app development.

Obviously, I do have bias because of my interest in the Kindle Classroom Project.

Weren t you the one, saying that EVOtesters are not able to drive the 4C proper, weren t you the one insulting EVO bias because they did not like the car?

Having validated the second question as «informative and neutral,» Moe immediately infers bias because it is presented after the first question.

The pre-adoption estimates should all be zero in the absence of selection bias because the treatments we study have yet to be implemented.

This is bias because I am going to pick Steve Buscemi for Broadwalk because I love his performance and the show, but Damian Lewis for Homeland might come in and steal it.

It is ridiculous that happy couples still have to worry about jokes, derision, and bias because they met with the help of an international dating agency.

People that are like, «Oh, yeah, you know, going too low carb is bad, so we got ta up the carbs a bit,» and you get people that project their own bias because that's how they feel.

But of course, you know, we — we have are our bias because were trying to get the highest quality in everything.

Such a strategy mitigates concern about publication bias because the decision to publish was unrelated to the findings on smoking status and cancer outcome.

NFL is the perfect system to study optimism bias because it's zero sum — one team winning means another team losing.»

If not, this investigation is bias because the armored cars sold to Aviation deportment open up coverup in all sectors in this investigation.

Although I am not sure I trusted the BBC under Blair (particularly since the outcome of the Hutton Report), I do think that the Tories are only now complaining of bias because their poll bubble has burst and they are finding it hard to get their miniscule amounts of genuine policy across after one of them is caught picking Oleg Deripaska's pockets on a yacht in Corfu.

Accuse me of bias because of my anti-apartheid pedigree if you wish, but this is a terrific film which captures the genius of Nelson Mandela through the prism of the game of rugby union.

I may be bias because he is my son but I did what worked for us and I know my son turned out just fine because I have parent him beyond just Co sleeping, I have taught him and disciplined him as best as I could.

In this review, we considered even low levels of attrition as potentially problematic in terms of risk of bias because sample loss may be related to the true outcome.

In some studies we were unable to judge risk of bias because of a lack of information, for example, when only abstracts were available.

unclear risk of bias (even with fairly low levels of attrition there may be some bias because sample loss may be related to outcome).

Other strengths of the underpinning cohort study include high participation by midwifery units and trusts in England; the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias because of non-consent; and the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk.12 The economic evaluation was conducted according to nationally agreed design and reporting guidelines.15 26 Collection of primary unit cost data was thorough and accounted for regional differences in care patterns.

But some complained that the draft report was riddled with errors and had an industry bias because it was prepared by Sciences International (SI), a private consulting firm with close ties to the chemical industry, and has been funded by more than 50 industrial companies.

Limitations of the study included low response rate for control families, higher socioeconomic status in participants vs. nonparticipants, possible residual confounding despite multivariate analysis, and possible recall bias because of retrospective design.

Yes they are but doesn't mean they will be in two years time and by the way they'll never be a better club and i couldn't give a flying fuck if it's bias because it's true.

This cocktail turned out really great — but I may be bias because I've always been a mojita lover.