Sentences with phrase «by human biases»

It is a great education piece, a «bedrock» foundation paper for instrument siting, temperature sensing, temperature trend analyses, and the errors (willful or otherwise) induced by human biased «temperature adjustments» to the data sets.

Not exact matches

We humans are plagued by many cognitive biases.
Screens have the advantage of avoiding the biases held by human stock pickers, but sometimes an active manager, like a conscientious driver, can do a better job of spotting the hazards dead ahead.
It's designed and programmed by human beings, and in most cases incorporates the biases of those human programmers.»
He couldn't find good players for his cash - strapped team when scouts couldn't effectively evaluate players, held back by bias and human error.
The algorithms designed to do that are human - made and therefore biased by nature.
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.
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.
By this he meant that the human brain, along with its senses, and with is learned cultural bias, and even with the extension our scientific instruments gives us, has only made a rough map in our minds of the REAL world (the territory).
The convergence model represents human communication as a dynamic, cyclical process over time, characterized by (1) mutual causation rather than one - way mechanistic causation, and emphasizing (2) the interdependent relationship of the participants, rather than a bias toward either the gisource» or the «receiver» of «messages.»
Study of Scripture through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred by Baden, like «God learns to accept their inherently evil nature», and humans «are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices», and «it is, rather, our job to make ourselves uncomfortable that he might be appeased.»
They do this by elevating these biases to not being merely human biases but God's biases and then claiming that anything that God thinks is good by definition so the biases must be good and correct.
Now, could it possibly be that the reason the answer is out of reach is because the bible was written by numerous, imperfect human beings, under the influence of their own religious biases, and all those writings have been complied, hundreds of years later, by men of equal imperfectness and religious biases, so as to render any logical discussion about what the hell was their intention in writing what the wrote, completely implausible?
A general summary was provided by ethics experts who testified before then - Congressman Albert Gore's Committee on Science and Technology in 1982: (1) Though risks in experimentation are inevitable, a strong bias toward the sacredness of human life requires the highest regard for the patient or subject.
20This is not, however, to say that all interest is «biased» or «ideological» in the sense that it expresses, in Ogden's words, «a more or less comprehensive understanding of human existence, or how to exist and act as a human being, that functions to justify the interests of a particular group or individual by representing these interests as the demands of disinterested justice» (The Point of Christology [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982], p. 94).
Well from what I have read the bible is mostly made up human man, (that had prejudices, biases, failures, fears) there is alot of interperation by the person who preceived or believes they translated the wording correctly.
To learn more, read Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children, edited by Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland.
It also pointed out that FSANZ carries no actual safety evaluation and its safety assumption were biased on data provided by IRRI and corporate proponents while ignoring crucial scientific data on the perils of GMOs to human health.
A vast majority of scientists believe climate change is caused by humans, they aren't biased against carbon.
Do we make too much of the tiny sample size that is a national championship game, especially since those games are assembled in part by generations worth of human assumptions and months worth of confirmed bias?
Also, GENDA supporters yesterday released a letter to the Senate leaders from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who noted that the New York City Human Rights Law was amended by Local Law 3 in 2002 to protect against bias in areas including public accommodations and no there was no «significant increase» in crime as a result of that change.
I can't post this as an answer because I have no rep on this site, but this probably is in part down to people's inherent bias against things caused by humans.
The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.&rHuman Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.&rhuman rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.&rHuman and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»
The Chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Trevor Phillips has been called on to apologise by the British Humanist Association (BHA), after he made heavily biased remarks in favour of religious people and against the non-religious in an interview.
The software isn't accurate enough to reliably issue arrest warrants or fines without a human checking the match first, but individual officers may not know that, and could be influenced by unconscious bias when presented with an «infallible» machine's results.
«The extreme selectivity of the modern extinction threat with respect to body size is best explained by the size bias in human hunting and fishing activities, which often preferentially target the largest animals in the oceans, or the largest animals within their respective taxonomic groupings,» said Payne.
These biases create some immediate concerns about our increasing reliance on artificially intelligent technology, as any AI system designed by humans to be absolutely «neutral» could still reinforce humans» prejudicial thinking instead of seeing through it.
The subjects» criminality was determined by a local justice system run by humans making (perhaps subconsciously) biased decisions, notes Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a principal scientist at Google who studies machine learning.
Among the areas determined to be flawed and in need of more research are: accuracy and error rates of forensic analyses, sources of potential bias and human error in interpretation by forensic experts, fingerprints, firearms examination, tool marks, bite marks, impressions (tires, footwear), bloodstain - pattern analysis, handwriting, hair, coatings (for example, paint), chemicals (including drugs), materials (including fibers), fluids, serology, and fire and explosive analysis.
Other examples include Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's studies of human reasoning, which show that humans frequently reason with unseen and persistent biases, and the work of Keller, Longino, and other feminist critics showing that scientists are cognitively limited by the ideologies accepted in their wider cultures.
We carefully studied issues raised by skeptics: biases from urban heating (we duplicated our results using rural data alone), from data selection (prior groups selected fewer than 20 percent of the available temperature stations; we used virtually 100 percent), from poor station quality (we separately analyzed good stations and poor ones) and from human intervention and data adjustment (our work is completely automated and hands - off).
At day 34 post infection, human CD4 + T cells were purified by positive selection prior to analysis to reduce any bias from low frequency contaminating human cells.
Just like the insight that lead Einstein to the Special Theory of Relativity, viz. «all laws of Physics remain the same for all inertial observers,» one must expect all scientific results to be reproduced identically (to a certain level of precision) by independent experimenters, thereby removing instrumental, environmental and human bias.
Although amelioration of disease symptoms by interallelic complementation would create an ascertainment bias in the clinic, the lack of evidence concerning interallelic complementation or other biallelic effects in human disease is likely caused by the difficulty in distinguishing such effects from environment and genetic background.
Our knowledge of eye growth is meager by comparison to brain growth, and heavily biased toward anthropoids (humans and macaques in particular --[14]--[17]; but see [8] regarding fetal growth of the eyes in Tarsius bancanus).
So AI is already superior in repetitive and predictive tasks, tasks that hinge on computational power, classifying huge amounts of data and inputs, making decisions based on concrete rules — with fewer biases than humans, but still induced by algorithms and data sets chosen by humans.
Teachers can create a classroom culture for deeper learning and reflexivity by encouraging dialogue that challenges human and societal biases.
Social Studies texts were written by humans and therefore are biased.
They differ from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls, in favor of men and boys.Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include, though are not limited to, the right: to bodily integrity and autonomy; to be free from sexual violence; to...
Being human and possessing the same mental wiring discussed above, it has been interesting to adhere to a systematic investment process that is unmoved by recency bias, unbound from experiencing time on a day - to - day basis, and uninfluenced by the crowd.
Then, by embedding these lessons in a systematic investment process, we protect our investors against unproductive human behavioral biases.
Art history, like every other kind of history recorded by humans, can be incomplete or biased.
Human induced trend has two components, namely (a) greenhouse effect [this includes global and local / regional component] and (b) non-greenhouse effect [local / regional component]-- according to IPCC (a) is more than half of global average temperature anomaly wherein it also includes component of volcanic activities, etc that comes under greenhouse effect; and (b) contribution is less than half — ecological changes component but this is biased positive side by urban - heat - island effect component as the met network are concentrated in urban areas and rural - cold - island effect is biased negative side as the met stations are sparsely distributed though rural area is more than double to urban area.
It is also valid to say this particular warming event is occurring in a world where the forcing has been increased by human activity and «all» weather is now occurring on this new forcing path which is warming biased.
Human nature and the political systems that are shaped by it both create a bias toward the near and now.
The video, featuring the science writer Joe Hanson, explores a vital body of empirical studies on human risk misperception, showing how a rational view of long - term or diffuse threats is obscured by «status quo bias,» our «finite pool of worry,» our tendency to value tribal connections over reality through what researchers call «cultural cognition,» and other characteristics of what I call our «inconvenient mind.»
Then follows «mental health of leftist activists», an extensive section on bias in social psychology and nmore general problems being addressed by the Heterodox Academy effort, the sociology of single - parenting, studies involving race / gender with IQ, personality, intellectual abilities and differences in interest, genetics and human evolution, enforced gender equality, scientific socialism, eugenics and the zero - population - growth movement, misguided environmentalism, and finally, a bit about climate change, rapidly followed by the «food police» and «diet wars», and then returning to a treatment of the Climate Wars.
Pollsters can get alarmist - sounding results from their surveys can bias their results by phrasing the question this vague way (in terms of «human activity»).
Despite our sincerest aim of using science as an objective and unbiased tool to record natural history, we are reminded that science is a human construct, often driven by human needs to tell a compelling story, to reinforce the positive, and to compete for limited resources — publication trends and communication bias is a proof of that.
We carefully studied issues raised by skeptics: biases from urban heating (we duplicated our results using rural data alone), from data selection (prior groups selected fewer than 20 percent of the available temperature stations; we used virtually 100 percent), from poor station quality (we separately analyzed good stations and poor ones) and from human intervention and data adjustment (our work is completely automated and hands - off).
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