Sentences with phrase «biased against self»

Many judges appear biased against self - represented (pro se) litigants and this judge had worked for the city.

Too often, IBPA has noticed a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for book review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves.

Seems to me that you have some kind of personal bias against self - publishing with your post.

In today's Publetariat Dispatch, author Melissa Conway addresses the bias against self - published authors and books.

With advancements in technology and opportunity and a lessening of the bias against self - publishing, every author now has a chance to succeed in the publishing space doing it on their own.

«Too often, IBPA has noticed a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves,» said IBPA CEO Angela Bole.

«Too often, IBPA has noticed a bias against self - published authors, independent publishers, and hybrid presses when it comes to choosing titles or authors for review consideration, book award contests, association memberships, and inclusion on independent bookstore shelves.

Not exact matches

Simple, for once the media was extremely biased for Clinton, wrote her up as much as they could in the hope that people, that where against her would simply give up and so make it a self fulfilling prophecy.

Lets be honest - these comments and howls of self serving anguish just show that there is a bias against women candidates.

Unlike those who are prejudiced against traditionally published or the self - published, I don't have that bias.

And as a matter of FYI, I ran this article past someone who was a reporter for both newspaper and TV, to see if it was accidentally biased for or against self - publishers or trad publishers, which it was never meant to be and as I suspected, this person said that it wasn't and that anyone who read it objectively without any prior personal agenda would see this.

I have found there is now less bias in the retail world against self - published books.

He shares his own experience with the gym in this regard as well as a look back on how, just a little over ten years ago, he was biased and prejudiced against self - publishing.

Also keep in mind I'm a strong advocate of self - publishing, which gives authors more control, flexibility and earning power, so I may seem unreasonably biased against traditional publishing.

I wonder if the reason so many self - published writers are female is because the big publishing houses subconsciously maintain a bias against female authors?

As many of us know there continues to be a bias by many in the media, book retailers, and readers against self - published books.

While the article initially comes off as fairly unbiased, the bias against indie publishing comes clear later on when it has a section listing the «bad reasons» for choosing self - publishing but there is no corresponding section on why it might be good to self - publish.

And there's a stigma I think, a bias against literary authors who self - publish because they're posting stuff up on Amazon or hiring printers or print - on - demand or whatever just so they can satisfy some kind of need for vanity.

Because while there are lot of sites out there geared to writers in general, in my experience as an indie author I found that they're tended to be quite a bit of bias and stigma against the self published authors at some of the those other writer sites which were really mostly populated by people interested in pursuing a traditional publication path.

But that's the great thing: if you have a decent cover, you will quickly discover that all this «self - publishing bias» or «prejudice against indie books» disappears.

Also, I still feel that a bias against indie or self published authors is what the example in the first paragraph highlights - regardless of how silly it is for any author, self or traditionally published, to battle over exclusion from some list.

Also, the book warns against common pathologies that overcome analysts, notably — Confirmation bias, overconfidence, Self - Attribution - bias, Optimism, Recency, Momentum, Heuristics, Familiarity, Snakebite (won't go back to one that hurt you), Falling in love, anxiety, over-reaction, loss - aversion, etc..

«I'd add that «the best we have» is an arbitrary list selected by a self - selected set of judges who are by and large ideologically biased against human industrial and population growth»

Re climate science and IPCC, I'll suggest that any internal biases that run counter to self - correction are small in comparison to the immense scale of the anti-science efforts arrayed against the discipline.

Bias against self - represented litigants is real, but it can be used to one's advantage like any other bias.

This is decided entirely by the judge's own self review and if the biases continue is evidence against the decision on appeal at worst (if he still sits but the case is not as biased as you feared, it could have been a non-issue or the judge realized that he was getting close to the line and reeled himself back to the center).

The self - represented appellant husband argued that the motion judge was biased, erred in finding no material change in circumstances, and erred in not making an adverse inference against the wife for non-disclosure.