Sentences with phrase «by bias in»

As this study used only the CBCL externalizing subscale that is comprised of few behaviors that may be directly attributed to chronic illness, it is less influenced by bias in reporting or interpretation of somatic symptoms than some other CBCL subscales.

If the adjustment incorporated by Kennedy et al is correct then the discrepancy is at least partly accounted for by bias in the temperature record rather than a problem with the models.

Progress in the understanding of the science is hindered by biases in the funding and selectivity in publishing.

This indicates possible common errors among GCMs although we can not exclude the possibility that the discrepancy between models and observations is partly caused by biases in satellite data.

Not exact matches

INDIGENOUS business experts say rapid growth in the sector is forcing a significant culture shift but it is still being restrained by traditional biases.

Of course, it's feasible that hiring managers may still approach Jopwell with biases — by targeting candidates from select universities, for example — similar to those that prevent companies from becoming diverse in the first place.

Leaders have to be intentional about eliminating bias by ensuring that their hiring and promotion practices have clear policy and guidelines against it, and that there are checks and balances in place where salaries between genders are regularly reviewed for parity.

You'd think that investors would be among the most cold - blooded and rational consumers of information — after all, fortunes depend on them making bias - free judgments about what they hear on earnings calls — but according to this new research, they are actually highly swayed by one tiny shift in language, just like everyone.

Granted, the person was also referred to you by the candidate him or herself, so there is inherent bias in it.

Examining the influence of unconscious bias is by nature a self - reflective activity - something that has only recently caught fire in boardroom efforts to address disparities, but which has been alive and well in the hearts of accelerators, especially those focused on women entrepreneurs.

Contact with women and ethnic minorities lessens unconscious bias, but since neither group is represented much in the upper echelons of business, it can be hard for executives to get that exposure — something not helped by the fact that many white, male higher - ups feel they don't know how to talk to younger women or minorities.

Investigations in Malaysia have been dogged by accusations they were biased toward the government or halted entirely.

«The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation — each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.»

The crux of the act is simply this: illegal wage bias (based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability) occurs «when a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice is adopted, when a person becomes subject to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, or when a person is affected by application of a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, including each time wages, benefits, or other compensation is paid, resulting in whole or in part from such a decision or other practice.»

The various areas in which entrepreneurs are susceptible to the confirmation bias include: 1) identifying who the real competitors of the start - up are, 2) methodically and rigorously analyzing what the competition is doing and how it may affect the start - up, 3) understanding what the company's current and prospective customers need and want (it is usually not what one originally thinks), and 4) estimating the resources needed by the company to achieve its stated goals.

This bias was demonstrated in an experiment at Stanford University in which a group of students was asked to guess the songs tapped by others on a table.

You can start by becoming more sensitive to the inherent biases in both photography and the stock photo ecosystem.

By breaking up workplace homogeneity, you can allow your employees to become more aware of their own potential biases — entrenched ways of thinking that can otherwise blind them to key information and even lead them to make errors in decision - making processes.

It's hard not to show a little bias here, given that this article was written on a MacBook Air 13 - inch, mostly on a plane by a writer in a tiny economy seat.

A report of court proceedings in February by the Daily Telegraph said Abdeslam was refusing to answer questions on the grounds that European courts are biased against Muslims.

It's designed and programmed by human beings, and in most cases incorporates the biases of those human programmers.»

The memo disputed one of the key pillars of Republican claims of bias in the Russia investigation: that the FBI relied extensively on the so - called Steele dossier, an explosive and unverified collection of memos alleging Trump - Russia collusion that was authored by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele.

Research published in September 2011 by the Level Playing Field Institute (LPFI) revealed that hidden biases within the I.T. workplace caused women and blacks to have negative workplace experiences far more often than their male and white counterparts.

During the voir dire process the potential jurors come in and they're asked a series of questions by the parties and by the judge to determine whether each potential juror can be completely unbiased and impartial and objective, to make sure they're not biased towards one party or the other.

Most of us have heard the term, and most smart businesses have added checks and balances to their processes to try to overcome confirmation bias — for example, by making sure that their business is structured to allow the open flow of information between executives and those close to whatever problem is being addressed, or by including designated naysayers in the conversation around a decision.

A series of dramatic developments in recent days — including the resignation of deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe and a vote by Republicans to publicly release a classified memo allegedly detailing evidence of anti-Trump bias in the FBI and the Justice Department — have renewed concerns that Mueller's investigation could unravel amid Republicans» intensifying criticism.

It has implemented a laundry list of policies endorsed by experts in the field, including everything from numeric diversity goals to unconscious - bias training for managers.

The bias is there, but at least these platforms help level the playing field by getting entrepreneurs» business ideas directly in front of the customer and ultimate decision maker: you.

By historical standards, this implies sustained double - digit losses on bond holdings, subpar growth in developed markets, and balance sheet risks for banking systems with a large home bias.

«We believe the bias for stock prices in general remains to the upside, underpinned by a growing economy, low interest rates and increasingly, cheaper oil... With operating margins at elevated levels, top line growth is poised to more quickly bleed through to the bottom line, thus supporting earnings.»

Strzok was reassigned by the Special Counsel's Office to FBI Human Resources for improper text messages with his mistress, FBI Attorney Lisa Page (no known relation to Carter Page), where they both demonstrated a clear bias against Trump and in favor of Clinton, whom Strzok had also investigated.

This clear evidence of Steele's bias was recorded by Ohr at the time and subsequently in official FBI files — but not reflected in any of the Page FISA applications.

These biases can be cognitive, illustrated by a tendency to think and act in a certain way or follow a rule of thumb.

However, deconstructing this year's performance by the S&P 500 Index in the chart below helps to underscore the potentially overlooked concentration risks that a home - biased approach can represent.

Kunal is an astute student of money and human cognitive biases, he builds his models by leveraging the fact that human beings are visibly irrational, especially in a group / tribe format.

The decision by the central bank's policy setting panel was in line with the expectations of markets and economists, who had given only low odds to governor Mark Carney removing a mild bias towards raising rates sometime.

Treasury yields remained stable with a positive bias after the mixed employment report, as healthy payroll growth was accompanied by an uptick in the Unemployment Rate and weak wage growth.

As a founding member of the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, Gray's confidence in the world's second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is admittedly biased, but that doesn't make his insights any less adept.

I don't know how much Starbucks can do about employees» racial biases in one day of training, but by providing clear - cut, companywide policies on restrooms and customer ejections and posting them in its stores, it will give its employees fewer chances to act on whatever biases they have.

Reading this book, readers will get warnings about four mistakes that companies commonly make — blindness to interactions between systems, getting locked in to existing ways of doing business, falling victim to cognitive biases, and derailment by short - termism.

With these points in mind, we believe that investors would be well served by examining data objectively and by trying to suppress any anchored biases when shifting fundamental conditions require a new course of action.

It focuses on global, equity - biased event driven opportunities driven by catalysts in liquid securities across the capital structure, according to Fortress.

According to a 2016 study published by the Harvard Business Review, including more than one woman or member of a racial minority in a finalist pool helps combat unconscious bias among interviewers and increases the likelihood of a diverse hire.

When median rents are calculated from these biased samples, the resulting estimates will tend to overstate the true price of apartments in a city - across the eight cities that we analyzed, the median rent in zip codes that are overrepresented by listing sites is 40 percent higher than the median in underrepresented zip codes.

Our approach corrects for the sample bias inherent in other private sources, producing results that are much closer to statistics published by the Census Bureau and HUD.

«Starbucks handled the recent «domestic bias» incident exceptionally well by seizing the moment aggressively and immediately to focus on improving the customer experience rather than equivocating or digging in to support the store manager and previous store policies,» Zolidis said.

With the CFLP index for large enterprises rising 3.4 points to 54.4 in March, and the equivalent measure of small enterprises falling by 4.3 points to 50.9, the stronger CFLP measure relative to the Markit PMI may simply reflect this bias towards better - performing larger firms.

But the optimism around supposedly objective algorithms has been challenged in recent years by evidence that some automated systems amplify bias because they're trained on data reflecting historical inequities.

This backdrop is noteworthy in that it is accompanied by an extremely accommodative approach to monetary policy and a dovish bias as we look forward.

But how can you ignore the bias inherent in Waltham Labs, owned by Mars, the biggest purveyor of pet - vittles in the universe by dollar volume.