Sentences with phrase «evidence of potential bias»

Absent further evidence of potential bias, a Facebook friendship between judges and counsel shouldn't even be worthy of mention as grounds for recusal.

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@Vic: If you want to believe something badly enough you can convince yourself of almost anything, because when you want to believe something you evaluate potential arguments and evidence through the lens of a very strong bias.

«But many scientists focused on DNA sequencing have brushed aside aspects of the fossil data, but when you minimise the potential biases in molecular dating you instead get a story that matches the fossil evidence.»

Given the weak evidence for the IOC's policy and its potential for fostering gender hysteria, the problem here isn't one of unfair advantage but of bias and discrimination.

Sometimes I have some studies that show that bias may be a potential explanation, but in much of the data that we present here, we don't see a lot of evidence of bias in careers.»

Following - up on two prior posts about potential bias in teachers» observations (see prior posts here and here), another research study was recently released evidencing, again, that the evaluation ratings derived via observations of teachers in practice are indeed related to (and potentially biased by) teachers» demographic characteristics.

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 view of the compelling US and global evidence that both sensible and nonsensical strategies outperform for the same reasons (value and small - cap biases), the authors conclude that potential investors would do well to base strategy selections largely on a comparison of explicit and implicit implementation costs due to portfolio turnover.

Not only that, but there is increasingly compelling evidence that the recent short - term slowdown in the surface temperature record was much less pronounced than previously estimated, if rapid Arctic warming is fully reflected, along with potential biases from the changing mix of sea surface temperature measurement sources in recent years.

But adding to that is a Reuters report that relays the information that cattle ranchers are far outpacing soy farmers on newly deforested land: 32 % of New Deforested Land in Study for Cattle That's based on a new study done by environmental groups and the soy industry (yes, potential bias alert goes off... though I have no evidence of it) which shows that of 630 sample areas of land deforested since July 2006, only 12 of them were planted with soy.

(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

Jones notes that research about the operation of confirmation bias has the potential to undermine the testimony of expert witnesses, because it has been demonstrated that a witness's prior knowledge of inculpatory evidence about an accused can skew even his or her «technical» evidence, for example, fingerprint analysis.

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.

The majority did note that a trial judge retains discretion to exclude evidence in a given case, based on the sorts of potential problems we identified, including an individual DRE's inability to explain how he / she made the determination, evidence of bias, failure to comply with the training, and contradiction of the DRE's opinion by bodily sample evidence or even the evidence of bystanders.

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.

When balanced against the prejudicial effect of allowing evidence of professional liability insurance, the potential for bias in this case is so remote as to warrant exclusion.

While Facebook's internal investigation supposedly found no evidence of this, it made stiff changes to how Trends were surfaced, and moved to a mostly algorithm - driven system to reduce the potential human bias.