Sentences with phrase «biased use of evidence»

Only superior and more reliable evidence can top the biased use of evidence.

Not exact matches

Depending on what it says, Trump could argue that it provides evidence of deep bias against him at the FBI and use it as a pretext to fire top Justice Department officials he perceives as insufficiently loyal, like Rosenstein.

Your continual denial of bias shows you have no desire to interpret any data in an objective way, but can be expected to use whatever data comes in to confirm your biases, so I don't understand why you bother asking for evidence besides the fact that you seem to think magic is possible or that we are in a «matrix» computer program.

«At the moment... nobody is going in there and saying: «Why are you using that evidence, that is rather out of date, or that is rather biased.

The researchers used computational modeling and behavioral and genetic experiments to discover evidence that choice bias is essentially a byproduct of credit assignment.

Instead of weighing the full evidence before it in the neutral manner expected of an NRC committee, the panel selectively uses available evidence and then twists it into bizarre, one might say biased, conclusions.

We are asking them to use and connect multiple sources of evidence, identify biases and gaps in information, and manage conflicting arguments.

Tom Perry, a research fellow from the University of Birmingham, and research manager at the Centre for the Use of Evidence in Education, has written a new academic paper on the Progress measures which finds that the measure favours grammar schools — but his findings offers a solution to fix the bias.

He spoke, primarily, about the out - of - school factors that impact student performance in schools and how this impacts and biases all estimates based on test scores (often regardless of the controls uses — see a most recent post about this evidence of bias here).

The gold standard of statistical evidence is the randomised controlled trial, because using a randomly chosen control group protects against biased or optimistic interpretations of the evidence.

All of these encouraging studies used experimental evidence to investigate the bias of using conventional value - added scores to compare teachers working in the same school.

Briggs and Domingue found strong evidence of these illogical results when using the L.A. Times model, especially for reading outcomes: «Because our sensitivity test did show this sort of backwards prediction, we can conclude that estimates of teacher effectiveness in LAUSD are a biased proxy for teacher quality.»

Chetty might even agree with this assertion, although he would disagree with the EVAAS's (typical) lack of use of controls for student background variables / demographics — a point of contention that has been debated, now, for years, with research evidence supporting both approaches; hence, the intense debates about VAM — based bias, now also going on for years.

This book provides new insights into the nature of political bias with regards to evidence and critically considers what an «improved» use of evidence would look like from a policymaking perspective.Part I describes the great potential for evidence to help achieve social goals, as well as the challenges raised by the political nature of policymaking.

In «A Case for Index Fund Portfolios» (downloadable white paper) the authors» completed an exhaustive study comparing the average performance of the market (as evidenced by an index fund investing approach) and that of actively managed mutual funds (using the survivorship - bias free CRSP database).

Is there evidence (I suppose using the analysis tools you mention) that portfolios with geographical allocations mirroring the size of the respective markets IS in fact a lower risk strategy than a portfolio showing bias towards your home nation?

What this model shows is that if orbital variations in insolation impact ice sheets directly in any significant way (which evidence suggests they do Roe (2006)-RRB-, then the regression between CO2 and temperature over the glacial - interglacial cycles (which was used in Snyder (2016)-RRB- is a very biased (over) estimate of ESS.

If you don't understand the psychological biases and heuristics that technical experts, policy - makers, and the general public, use in thinking about uncertain risks, you won't be able to communicate effectively because people will unconsciously distort what you say to fit their preconceived (possibly faulty) mental model of the issue (see M. Granger Morgan, «Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach» (Cambridge, 2001) for solid empirical evidence of this problem and how to avoid it.

What makes the kind of evidence you use anecdotal is — the relatively small number of datasets considered — the significant share of not fully quantitative data — the large variability in the nature of the data — the large biases involved in the preservation of the data.

We have also verified that possible low - frequency bias due to non-climatic influences on dendroclimatic (tree - ring) indicators is not problematic in our temperature reconstructions... Whether we use all data, exclude tree rings, or base a reconstruction only on tree rings, has no significant effect on the form of the reconstruction for the period in question... These comparisons show no evidence that the possible biases inherent to tree - ring (alone) based studies impair in any significant way the multiproxy - based temperature pattern reconstructions discussed here.

Results of our meta - analysis found no evidence of publication bias, in contrast to prior studies that were based on smaller sample sizes than used here (e.g., Michaels 2008; Reckova and Irsova 2015).

In order to «prove» (a), evidence has to be fabricated — literally — in the sense of using computer simulations with a preordained bias towards the hypothesis (see Judith Curry's series of articles: «Overconfidence in IPCC's detection and attribution», which discusses «bootstrapped plausibility» of models).

The initial paper was on the impacts of coverage bias in the hadcrutv4 dataset — this new update focuses on the differences between our result and GISS» with the evidence suggesting that GISS is underestimating Arctic warming because of using GHCNv3 as an input.

[44] Finally, field evidence of coccolithophore fossils in rock were used to show that the deep - sea fossil record bears a rock record bias similar to the one that is widely accepted to affect the land - based fossil record.

(2) thou shalt not fudge the data (3) thou shalt not invent arbitrary statistical methods to suit thy data (4) thou shalt not indulge in any form of bias e.g. thou shalt not employ incomplete, highly selective, subjective literature reviews (6) in the interests of transparency and replication thou shalt not hide the data or code (7) thou shalt not make vague or exaggerated statements unsupported by evidence (8) thou shalt not tolerate actual or potential conflicts of interest (9) thou shalt not allow political interference to compromise scientific integrity (10) thou shalt not use unvalidated computer models (11) Thy university shall insulate undergraduate fees from research expenses and require research to be self supporting independent of the teaching.

(2) thou shalt not fudge the data (3) thou shalt not invent arbitrary statistical methods to suit thy data (4) thou shalt not indulge in any form of bias e.g. thou shalt not employ incomplete, highly selective, subjective literature reviews (5) thou shalt not exaggerate (6) in the interests of transparency and replication thou shalt not hide the data or code (7) thou shalt not make vague statements unsupported by evidence (8) thou shalt not tolerate actual or potential conflicts of interest (9) thou shalt not allow political interference to compromise scientific integrity (10) thou shalt not use unvalidated computer models

Jury instructions typically leave the jury with wide discretion in choosing amounts, and the presentation of evidence of a defendant's net worth creates the potential that juries will use their verdicts to express biases against big businesses, particularly those without strong local presences.

(correct test for Barrister appeals; whether outside the ex improviso rule, prosecutor may call evidence after prosecution and defence case closed; use of debarring orders against prosecutor; whether tribunal may «enter the arena» and strongly request the attendance of a prosecution witness; whether BSB has power to summons witnesses; whether prosecutor may communicate with disciplinary judge behind the back of the defence; whether such communication redolent of actual bias of judge where judge wishes prosecutor good luck on appeal; whether apparent bias doctrine can be engaged by post-trial conduct of judge; legal effect of serving BSB prosecutions department officer being 1 of 4 appointing members of the COIC «Tribunals Appointments Body» (TAB); whether TAB ultra vires the Bar's Constitutions; whether open - ended power of removal of member of COIC pool without cause, unlawful given position of BSB Chair and senior staff on COIC; whether ECHR Article 6 guarantees against pressure on disciplinary judges to conform with a prosecutorial mentality; whether disciplinary judges Art. 6 «independent» within Findlay v United Kingdom given key role of BSB prosecutions department in appointing disciplinary judges; serious non-disclosure by BSB of notes of secret meeting between BSB and disciplinary judge until day before appeal and despite requests and application for disclosure by defence)

If Judge Koh is (rightly) concerned about such bias, for which there is even statistical evidence (which she cited), I thought it would have been a no - brainer for her to just simply use the same video as at the summer 2012 trial instead of one that is, in some parts, like a propaganda video for Apple's innovative capacity.

Rhona DesRoches, chairwoman of the Association of Victims for Accident Insurance Reform, calls the decision a «game - changer» for personal - injury claimants, an indication that the courts have «had enough of the manipulations of insurers to delay and deny claimants through the use of biased medical evidence.»

Evidence that a witness has a bias, prejudice, or interest for or against any party may be used to attack the credibility of the witness.

We see case after case in which the preponderance of the evidence as to the children's better interests seemed obviously in favor of the mother, but the judges appeared to view it through a lens of bias against the mother (often using the very malleable «parental alienation» or «uncooperative parent» technique.)

In partnership with researchers from related projects in Canada, the UK, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Aboriginal organisations and policymakers, we will analyse whole - of - population data for New South Wales (NSW) to investigate the determinants of positive early childhood development in Aboriginal children, and assess the impacts of two «real - world» programmes that were implemented under circumstances where evidence of their efficacy was unable to be derived from RCTs: the NSW Aboriginal and Maternal Infant Health Service (AMIHS) 45 and the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) Brighter Futures Program.46 Early evaluations of these programmes suggested some positive changes in proximal outcomes related to their objectives.45, 47, 48 However, each of these evaluations was limited by one or more of the following: use of single data sets, less than 2 years of outcome data and / or issues of confounding and selection bias.