Sentences with phrase «biased in favor of»

«What is really remarkable about the combined findings of the 18 studies,» writes DePaulo, «is that the designs were biased in favor of making marriage look good.

In many states, the laws governing child custody and visitation are purportedly gender - neutral, but according to child custody evaluator Robert Galatzer - Levy, many experts believe custody decisions are often biased in favor of the mother, and some factors, such as income, sexuality and political views, can unfairly bias cases in favor of the father.

We recognize that there is so much more to each ecosystem than what we talked about here today, we also recognize that we are fairly biased in favor of Android, we can't help it, that's our passion.

Are we biased in favor of our Association members?

If a judicial candidate, before becoming judge, actively campaigns on partisan issues in violation of the Judicial Conduct Code, and if a candidate for judicial office pledges to be biased in favor of the prosecution by promising to be «tough on crime», then the respect for the judiciary will suffer.

Among those who can afford the fees, many learn they can not enforce their legal rights because arbitration decisions do not need to be based on the law; arbitrators have their own procedures, and some studies have found that they are systematically biased in favor of the companies that hire them.

«I don't think any Justice should be biased in favor of his or her own personal characteristics.

If you have stricken all those jurors that you think were biased, that means you are probably going to be in the situation where the remaining jurors are either (hopefully) biased in favor of your client, or, more likely, you are down to the jurors who, despite all your efforts, barely opened their mouths during the entire voir dire process.

This is put in place primarily to prevent consumers from bringing class action lawsuits and because arbitration forums are routinely biased in favor of the company.

I'm obviously very biased in favor of myself, but the problems that myself and my co-inventors have solved were the problems I spoke against (and I was aware of the limitation several years ago when I first started posting here) and they are some of the key limits to renewable energy penetration.

In this example, supposedly objective science reporting is inherently biased in favor of the non-scientific idea and biased against the actual science of evolution itself.

Or climate scientists might be biased in favor of findings that will guarantee grant renewal, just like the bulk of the consensus scientific community.

Semantic analysis of U.S. Federal budget documents indicates that the climate science research budget is heavily biased in favor of the paradigm of human - induced climate change.

You seem to be assuming that their changepoint detection would be more likely to ignore warming changes; that it is biased in favor of excluding them on an a priori assumption that the are more likely to be real.

Everything they say or write is biased in favor of developers.

In any case the IPCC reports are very biased in favor of AGW, hence they take a «strong position» on a controversial topic.

the cities at their best are wonderous places of opprutunity and diversity, living near the greatest city of all time has made me biased in favor of them.

As art history has always been biased in favor of the male artists, women were systematically excluded from the main Western art movements, being mainly invisible to the public eye.

«An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture,» the first major international survey exhibition at the Modern since 1970, is regarded as a response of sorts to persistent criticism by some artists and critics that the museum has long been biased in favor of work produced earlier in the century and has largely ignored living artists as a result.

It may appear from my comments that I am biased in favor of dog neutering.

The system is biased in favor of happy talk.

I am biased in favor of EM investing.

As I was a librarian not that long ago, I can assure you that the libraries are not, in fact, biased in favor of traditional publishing.

I had a guest a while back who recommended FB profiles rather than pages, and as someone who has yet to have an official page, I continue to be biased in favor of profiles.

actually, i am biased in favor of capacitive buttons but the desire's buttons are less old - school than X10 because they are smaller and just more refined.

The information may be biased in favor of emphasing later profits, rather than immediate investments.

I mention a little about my racing history because it's understandable if some of you may think I'm biased in favor of GM products.

What is true is that hedge - fund managers such as Whitney Tilson are biased in favor of charter schools because of their trust in entrepreneurialism.

Field testing provides valuable information about test items, such as how difficult each item is, how many students select each specific answer choice, and which items might be biased in favor of or against certain groups.

Concerning the so - called «achievement gap», why don't we create a test that is biased in favor of urban populations instead of one biased against them, and see how suburban students score.

If the measures are insufficient and the academic growth of disadvantaged students is lower than that of more advantaged students in ways not captured by the model, the one - step value - added approach will be biased in favor of high - SES schools at the expense of low - SES schools.

The results of this approach may also be biased in favor of schools serving more advantaged students if the test - score growth of disadvantaged students differs in ways not captured by the value - added model.

Given that the ranking is meant to capture the current influence of education academics, these career items are biased in favor of senior scholars whose work may have been influential in the past, but less so in the present.

But McGinnis, who runs HiDine, a dating site for people who like restaurants, believes Facebook is biased in favor of bigger dating sites with larger ad budgets.

He believes Facebook is biased in favor of bigger dating sites with larger ad budgets.

The section on Alzheimer's is particularly compelling, and it points out the pitfalls in relying on previous studies done by the statin industry, where often those who have memory problems as side - effects of the statin drugs are excluded from the study, so that the results end up inappropriately biased in favor of statins.

Some charged that Amano was biased in favor of the telescope.

Moreover, Milgram recruited subjects for two of his studies by buying mailing lists, which tend to be biased in favor of high - income people with high numbers of connections.

«And consequently some people are biased in favor of that turning out to be the case.»

The investigator, Florence L. Finkle, is leaving less than a month after a damning federal inquiry chronicled assaults on teenage inmates by guards at Rikers, and criticized the division she oversaw as «ineffectual,» «understaffed» and biased in favor of correction officers.

It also reiterates Paladino's claim that Dicker is somehow working on behalf of Andrew Cuomo, or, at the very least, biased in favor of his candidacy.

And since their success as companies depended on selling reliably large numbers of albums and singles, the system was biased in favor of musicians and genres that presented little risk.

We are biased in favor of mothers and babies.

We are biased in favor of happy moms.»

I was just going to post that — the data reporting is voluntary so biased in favor of homebirth.

What is really remarkable about the combined findings of the 18 studies is that the designs were biased in favor of making marriage look good.

The one thing I can assure you of is you will never have to wonder about whether I am biased in favor of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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.

Its teaching was biased in favor of the poor.

Biased in favor of one or another ecclesiastic outlook at times, this civil religion can also at times be biased on behalf of the political status quo.