Sentences with phrase «bias test of»

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Recently we've seen how a diet of all - white - male test data can lead to bias in artificial intelligence, overlooking people of color, for example.

GFI aims for diversity in their hires primarily through hiring practices that are intended to help them minimize the effects of bias, such as encouraging staff to score applications anonymously, using generalized ability tests, and meeting applicants only late in the process.88 While they've hired many women, including in seven of nine director roles, they find that their team is lacking in diversity in other ways, and they've met with Encompass to discuss further steps they can take to develop their diversity strategy.89 One staff member we spoke to mentioned that they hoped GFI would be able to begin paying interns, which might help diversify their team by broadening the pool of potential interns who could afford to take a position with GFI.90, 91

OverviewGold price shows a bearish bias after approaching the critical resistance at 1,197.10, which represents one of the next trend keys besides 1,183.83 support, where the price is following its way to test this support.

OverviewThe USD / JPY pair is showing clear bearish bias as a result of testing the key support 113.97.

You have a strong bias toward wanting anything you observe as a part of your testing to be proof of what you believe.

My main point is, when you test to see if prayer works, there are ways to randomize it so bias is out of the equation (Usually double - blind tests work nicely) and then before you even begin you outline that a prayer that works means the person is healed instantly, or to make it slightly more «fair» and conform to laws of nature more, a person who has prayers heals at an abnormally high rate.

The undemocratic class bias in education extends even farther than the tests that automatically discriminate against students from the lower social and economic strata of society.

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.

It's totally succeptable to the pre-concieved notions, and biases of the person performing the test.

Only one black was among the 37 university presidents who framed the legislation, and representatives of predominantly black schools were incensed by the weight given to the standardized tests, which have been widely and persuasively attacked as culturally biased in favor of white, middle - class youngsters.

Both tests showed no signs of a publication bias.

None of the Begg and Egger tests were statistically significant, although the power of these tests for detecting small study bias was low especially in the studies conducted in adults.

So the claim that Clinton was silent in response to India's tests, while chiding Pakistan for their later tests is a simply not true, and therefore can not be taken as evidence of some sort of inherent bias.

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

Gifted education programs have long been subject to criticism that their selection criteria, which often rely on IQ testing and other measures of cognitive ability, are biased against students of color and poor children.

One approach is taking implicit association tests to identify your personal biases (although some question the reliability and validity of the tests).

In one phase of the experiment, they tested a group of actual voters before the 2014 general election in India and found that biased search results could increase the number of undecided voters who chose one candidate by 12 % or more.

According to the authors, this supposed optimism bias is an artefact of the tests used to assess it, in conjunction with the rarity of negative events.

Barring that expensive and time - consuming effort, there are mathematical tests that scientists can perform to determine if the results from a set of studies might be the result of questionable research practices such as publication bias or P - hacking — mining data to uncover significant differences.

Many tests are the product of middle - class, middle - brow, middle - aged, middle Americans and may not be appropriate for people from other groups, leading to the charge that personality tests are biased in favour of the white, middle - class males.

«This could have significant implications for both understanding inequality [in immigration], and also how to think about testing solutions that will mitigate some of these demographic biases,» says Emilio J. Castilla, an associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-author of a new paper detailing the findings.

In collaboration with Zoe Kinias, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, and Sigal Barsade, the Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor of Management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Hafenbrack conducted four studies to test the idea that mindfulness meditation could improve decision - making by increasing resistance to the sunk - cost bias.

Because students of color are overrepresented in special education and underrepresented in gifted education, it has been assumed that teachers may be making biased decisions when referring students for testing.

The behaviour of this control group served as a test for any possible predisposition or bias regarding the movement of the sliding door.

The Adult Decision - Making Competence test allows us to characterize the extent to which people are susceptible to specific types of biases that have been studied in the literature on human judgment and decision - making,» Barbey said.

Although reanalysis of the available evidence is important, the ability to properly control for bias and confounding [factors that can influence outcomes] in observational studies is often limited, and without randomized controlled trials specifically designed to test the hypothesis, the issue of nonspecific effects of vaccines may remain subject to continuing debate.»

To reduce the potential for racial bias, NIH also plans a pilot project that will test peer review of research proposals that have been made anonymous.

«We couldn't test the own gender bias without a female version of this test,» said Scherf, who worked with Daniel B. Elbich and Natalie V. Motta - Mena, both graduate students in psychology.

Given what I do for a living, my own bias is in the direction of therapies that have been rigorously tested for safety and effectiveness.

Because of previous concerns of an own gender bias in women, the Cambridge Face Memory Test features only male faces.

«But human trials of sitagliptin have been limited to date because they have lacked important tools like a placebo arm and allocation concealment (in which researchers do not know what the next treatment allocation will be, further preventing selection bias in testing),» said Loomba.

We tested the impact of spatial bias by examining global trends in MHW proxies derived from HadSST3 data.

Research led at the Yale School of Public Health have found that the majority of published papers analyzing the cost - effectiveness of a widely used test for breast cancer used a study design that can increase bias.

Once we fabricate electrodes and measure their surface areas, we use a suite of characterization methods to determine unknown semiconductor properties by the following procedure: We determine the conductivity type of an unknown material by monitoring the open - circuit potential response upon illumination, which is important to establish the reverse - bias conditions used for all subsequent testing.

They examined the possibility of publication bias by constructing funnel plots and by Begg's and Egger's tests.

Our aims are as follows: 1) to determine whether disclosure of elevated brain amyloid will bias ADCS - PACC test results; 2) to determine whether disclosure of elevated brain amyloid will cause psychological distress; and 3) to explore how learning amyloid imaging disclosure will impact preventative health behaviors, advance planning for health (e.g. long - term care insurance decisions) and well - being (e.g. stigma, quality of life and relationships).

After checking for normality using the Shapiro - Wilk test, one - sample t - tests were conducted to compare the overall mean sensitivity against chance - level (0.5), and mean bias against 0, as well as paired t - tests to compare mean sensitivity and bias for the two LEVELS OF EMBEDDING separately.

P - values from Kolmogorov - Smirnov tests for pairwise platform comparisons of GC bias for patient sample MB24 are listed in Table 2.

For the pairwise platform comparisons of GC bias, we used Kolmogorov - Smirnov tests for GC percentages below 25 % and above 60 %.

Follow up tests indicated that the «bowl bias» is virtually impossible to get rid of with awareness, education or practice.

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.

Yeah, I think the link's in the show notes, but they offered, for listeners, a tremendous, tremendous resource in terms of many, and even in Europe, but even just so many different lab tests that honestly doctors are not running, and it offers, and I know I'm stealing your thunder, I know if, Brady, if you were to do your own plug, it sounds like you might be a little biased, so I'm gonna do it for you, but it's an incredible resource.

Dr. Greger believes most of the benefit of Cocoa is from Industry funded bias but 85 percent dark chocolate can reduce your risk of heart disease by half, he does recommend pure cocoa, maybe as a drink or Rooibos tea additive (chocolate has one of the highest ORAC values of any food tested)..

You've got patients reading all kinds of bias information on the internet & essentially risking their own lives, when they have qualified doctors who could be helping these patients test the treatments more safely & then use any beneficial treatments to help other patients, but it seems most doctors are more afraid of risking their own careers than actually helping patients, so they just prescribe the «Standard of Care» treatments, which we all know has a very low survival rate.

The Bechdel test has been gathering momentum in the last five years or so, being regularly referred to in film criticism, and even becoming an informal part of Sweden's ratings board, so citizens can determine a movie's bias before going to see it.

That information would be helpful for the sake of clarity and as a proof of principle for the test, as the hardware may influence the loading times of one specific game leading to a biased result.

The most sophisticated approach uses a statistical technique known as a value - added model, which attempts to filter out sources of bias in the test - score growth so as to arrive at an estimate of how much each teacher contributed to student learning.

Responding to critics who charged that standardized tests failed to measure the full range of student abilities and were biased against women and minorities, the college dropped its requirement that applicants submit their scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Ravitch, curious about whether such hypersensitivity was peculiar to just this one firm, began to search for the bias and sensitivity guidelines of other test development companies, textbook publishers, state agencies, and scholarly and professional agencies.

They have for decades back - biased what is taught in schools, in a very self - serving manner — narrowly as a test of whether a student will succeed at university.