Sentences with phrase «bias of some of the participants»

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These are sophisticated and opportunistic investors that instinctively understand the aforementioned biases of the participants and know exactly how to craft investments that can exploit the situation.

Caveat: research methodology is suboptimal (most participants were sourced through social networks of founders; likely bias given age and affinity towards technology)

The convergence model represents human communication as a dynamic, cyclical process over time, characterized by (1) mutual causation rather than one - way mechanistic causation, and emphasizing (2) the interdependent relationship of the participants, rather than a bias toward either the gisource» or the «receiver» of «messages.»

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.

A prospective study follows participants forward and tends to be less susceptible to recall bias and other forms of bias.

As the breastfeeding intervention can not be blinded, we rated all studies as being at high risk of bias for blinding of participants and personnel.

Six of the included studies were judged as high risk in blinding of participants and personnel (Begley 2011; Homer 2001; MacVicar 1993; North Stafford 2000; Rowley 1995; Tracy 2013) and nine studies were of unclear risk of bias (Allen 2013; Biro 2000; Flint 1989; Harvey 1996; Hicks 2003; Kenny 1994; McLachlan 2012; Turnbull 1996; Waldenstrom 2001).

All included studies were at high risk of bias for blinding of participants or staff.

To the extent that the rate of fan use was different between participants and nonparticipants and was related to case or control status, these results may be biased.

Except for male sex, which was not a risk factor in study participants, the ORs obtained from participants were similar to those obtained from all eligible cases and controls, providing no evidence of a noticeable selection bias.

Although we could not find estimates of fan use in the US population, we examined the potential selection bias by evaluating characteristics associated with SIDS risks in study participants and nonparticipants in a previously published article.16 Using California birth certificate data, we compared the ORs for maternal age, maternal education, parity, birth weight, infant sex, and late initiation of prenatal care (> 5 months» gestation).

By design, that study minimized confounding by measured and unmeasured factors; however, nonblinding of clinicians assessing the cognitive outcomes to participant breastfeeding status suggests the potential for bias.

Previous research had documented a bias against faces perceived as untrustworthy, but much of the research had relied on study participants contemplating criminal verdicts hypothetically.

In some cases, such as in the selection of participants for studies on suicide, the bias in the original studies may have underestimated the association between access to firearms and suicide, because both study and comparison groups were recruited from health care settings where they may have been seeking treatment for suicidal planning.

Studies about parenting often are biased in the lab because participants give answers that they think are expected of them or are not aware of their own behavior.

The third innovation is keeping track, while participants use the system, of emerging biases in the velocity of cursor movement and subtracting them out of the decoded movements.

Note that participants seem to be mostly unaware of these biases.

The study results show that participants are bound to a «false - consensus» bias, i.e. they believe without evidence that the attitudes of others resemble their own.

Participants were excluded if they reported a personal history of cancer at baseline of the follow - up in order to avoid bias due to closer physician follow - up of cancer patients.

It's possible that social desirability bias, or the tendency to act in way that is viewed as desirable, masked the true intentions of participants.

The researchers noted possible selection bias, as a number of participants contacted for the study did not complete initial surveys and link Cardiogram accounts.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or to condone bias but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of the activity.

In order to study the brain activity associated with bias, the researchers compared brain images of the participants who preferred the «professional» excerpts with images of participants who preferred the «student» excerpts.

«The participants who could resist the bias (who decided they liked the performance primed as student or disliked the one primed as professional) had to recruit regions devoted to executive control — it looked like work for them to suppress the bias,» said Elizabeth Margulis, distinguished professor of music theory and music cognition at the University of Arkansas.

Because participants in such studies are not «blinded» — they know if they are getting treatment or not — they are likely to be influenced by the placebo effect and other forms of expectancy bias.

In this study, she added, participants would have had little or no expectancy bias, because they were all assigned to a treatment, and were not told which was the treatment of interest to the researchers.

In fact, we revealed that lean participants from the different studies varied more in their levels of Firmicutes than did the lean and obese individuals within each study, pointing to systematic biases and biological differences across the study populations.

Observational studies have a high risk of bias owing to problems such as self - selection of interventions (people who believe in the benefits of meditation or who have prior experience with meditation are more likely to enroll in a meditation program and report that they benefited from one) and use of outcome measures that can be easily biased by participants» beliefs in the benefits of meditation.

al, 2005), studies of Internet dating that rely exclusively on students as participants may paint a biased portrait of Internet dating because their samples may enjoy greater natural access to dates than the broader population of Internet users looking for romance.

A simple test for selection bias looks at the impact of lottery offers on the probability that lottery participants contribute MCAS scores to our analysis sample.

For a deeper exploration of potential reactions of participants and suggested ways to facilitate emotionally charged discussions on race, prejudice and bias, read Clark, P., (2010) I don't think I am biased.

Through engaging, interactive exercises, participants will: - Create a common understanding of diversity and inclusion - Link diversity issues with achieving district goals - Broaden the scope of diversity beyond race and gender issues - Reveal and assess the impact of subtle biases on district success - Discuss the behaviors required to create an inclusive environment where every man, woman and child feels included, valued and respected.

In addition to exploring these behaviors and learning how they can be operationalized, participants will build and practice equity - based vocabulary; review the role of implicit bias in their personal and professional life; identify where and how disproportionality appears in their own schools and classrooms; assess the current state of equity within their school community; and practice having race - based conversations.

In case you think these results might have been biased by a bunch of geeks in the survey sample, it seems the main criteria for selecting participants was that they like reading and frequently read books.

According to Greenshields, Russell Investments is a big proponent of risk - based and target - date funds in defined contribution (DC) retirement plans because they insulate participants against behavioral biases.

Veronika K. Pool and Irina Stefanescu, both of Indiana University at Bloomington, and Clemens Sialm of University of Texas at Austin and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the authors of the paper, investigated whether executives from mutual fund families acting as trustees of 401 (k) plans play favorites with their own funds, and whether plan participants undo this affiliation bias through their investment choices.

Recall that the two main reasons for market inefficiency are behavioral biases and perverse incentives of some of the participants.

The instructor will build on participants» knowledge of options using practical examples to illustrate the risk and reward profile of trading a directional bias using options.

The instructors will build on participants» knowledge of options using practical examples to illustrate the risk and reward profile of trading a directional bias using options.

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.

To analyze the effect of participant bias on results, we analyzed the use of the redo functionality in the Live dataset.

The open letter, signed by a few of the participants at the Artists» Session, and protesting the Metropolitan Museum of Art for its anti-abstract bias in the selection of painters for the exhibit American Painting Today 1950 is published in The New York Times.

it is the openness of the participants to examining for their own biases.

If they didn't believe a Mexican telling them that raters can't be biased with respect to the outcome of the study — since said outcome in entirely in their hands — or the importance of independence, and bliindness to the identity of the authors / participants, I assume they just asked some white people who would know, some social scientists who are experts in subjective rater study design, interrater reliability, etc..

I have found what I did suspect: the large number of scientists working in this huge, growing field, supported by grants, do indeed feel that they should be the only biased participants.

He wrote a series of articles critical of the process, participants and perceived bias of the conference.

The interim report also says a large number of participants were in favour of requiring licensees to participate in continuing professional development courses on cultural competence and unconscious bias.

The working group also heard from participants about how best to improve the complaints process for lawyers who face racialized discrimination as well as how to improve cultural competence and understanding of unconscious bias.

A number of participants noted the need to ensure that education on cultural competency, unconscious bias, anti-racism and anti-oppression start at law school and in the Licensing Process.

It also found that increasing the amounts of payments to the participants increased this bias.