Sentences with phrase «eliminate potential bias»

In efforts to minimize the arbitrariness of how courts define the worst of crimes, and to eliminate potential bias in capital and other criminal sentencing, the Depravity Scale research aims to distinguish the specific evidence — that is, the intents, actions, and attitudes of a given crime — that warrants the most severe sentences.

In the study's second year, teachers will be randomly assigned to new classrooms, an effort to eliminate potential bias caused by how students are placed with teachers.

The surveys were conducted through a web - based questionnaire, without any researcher interference, to reduce or eliminate potential bias.

Once the evaluation process begins, «blind» hiring tactics can eliminate potential biases.

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In reviewing the fur trapping data from two U.S. and six Canadian jurisdictions, Newsome and Ripple eliminated potential sources of bias such as records from fur farms that raise foxes.

The authors explain that although this may eliminate the concern with the CREDO study about family motivation, peer influence is still a potential bias, with lottery winners surrounded by classmates from similarly motivated families, while lottery losers are educated with many peers who did not apply to a choice school, and hence may not be as motivated (72).

In many ways, each step of the research process strives to eliminate potential «biases» (or systematic problems in the methods) in order to provide the most accurate and valid information possible.