Work through this possible
bias by doing some research.
Not exact matches
Do some
research instead of going
by what people tell you and
biased media say.
Research suggests that a great many people assess evidence not as scientists are trained to
do, but rather in an emotion -
biased manner that is strongly influenced
by the beliefs of their cultural cohort.
But
by now she has picked up the implication of my questions:
Do her social concerns taint her
research results; is she
biased?
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.
Please
do your own
research on the mold in nuts / butters, esp peanuts / butter and that would need to start with spending a lot of time on the Internet (our best
research tool), self - training in critical thinking
by doing it, vetting various sites and authors in a variety of ways and over time, testing ideas within your own life and framework, and getting to the bottom of your own cognitive
biases which prevent you from questioning authority in the first place.
Today's nutrition looks at all of the suggested causes, and
does its best to pick the «most likely cause»... mostly
by siding with personal
biases and picking and choosing which
research it wants to believe.
By comparing the educational outcomes of students who scored just above the admissions threshold (and thus were very likely to attend) and just below the admissions threshold (who mostly
did not attend), Dougherty is able to account for the selection
bias that has plagued prior CTE
research.
But recent
research by a Harvard professor using Los Angeles school data
did not find that such assignments created a
bias in value - added scores.
Flowers: «Long story, short: the CFR
research has withstood criticism from Rothstein (a brilliant economist, whom CFR greatly respects), and their findings were backed up
by other economists in the field (yes, some of them
do have a «pro-VAM»
bias, but such is social science).»
Amrein - Beardsley: Long story, short: the CFR
research has [not] withstood criticism from Rothstein (a brilliant economist, whom CFR [and many others] greatly respect, and their findings were backed up
by other economists [i.e., two to be exact] in the field (yes, some of them [only Chetty's buddy Kane]
do have a «pro-VAM»
bias, but such is social science).
Therefore it will be extremely
bias towards everything that the iPad can
do (and likely exaggerate) and like many internet authors, the author
did little to no
research on anything not made
by Apple relying on complains of new users to tear apart non-Apple products.
MJ — I've made this comment before here, but I am skeptical of the Dalbar study — nobody seems to know any of the details of the
research they
did and since they seem to be sponsored
by some sort of financial advisor group then the numbers are quite
biased in my opinion.
ACE thinks that some of HLL's early studies were not conducted as well as they could have been, and that there were problems in some of the write - ups of those studies.262 For example, HLL conducted five studies with the same participant pool, which might have caused the results of some of those studies to be influenced
by earlier experimental manipulations.263 Some studies also
did not include appropriate control groups, and many studies
did not control for desirability
bias.264 We think these early studies helped influence animal advocates to see
research into animal advocacy methods as possible and desirable, but that their utility is otherwise limited
by some of their design flaws.
That would be an indication that the results obtained
by any selected way of detrending may be
biased, but
doing exploratory
research using simple detrending may be of interest even in such a case.
Climate change skeptics claimed the IPCC 2007 report — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC 2007), which uses scientific facts to argue humans are causing climate change — was based on an alleged
bias for positive results
by editors and peer reviewers of scientific journals; editors and scientists were accused of suppressing
research that
did not support the paradigm for carbon dioxide - induced global warming.
One approach would be to review how
research papers are treated here at RC
by both post authors and
by the commenters, perhaps with an eye to comments that
do not address anything scientific and thus arguably reflect
bias such as calling people «ignorant food tubes» and such.
I don't think «industry» funding is the right answer as that would set up more
biased research leading to a p — ssing contest between scientists controlled
by their funders.
A group of former editors of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) has launched today an open - source, peer - reviewed medical journal that hopes to avoid what they say are editorial
biases in traditional journals having to
do with the important role
research played
by drug and medical appliance companies.
To counteract our unavoidable
bias, we
do quite a bit of
research by perusing online forums, reading other reviews (PCMag, CNET, etc), conducting Twitter polls and more.