Sentences with phrase «explained by bias»

Indeed, it seems unreasonable to expect that volunteers would successfully identify adolescents with depressive symptoms when professionals so often fail to.37, 38 Our findings of continued poor mental health and possibly increased support need by participants could be explained by bias from differential dropout rates, although this was controlled for in the multivariable analysis.

[6] This literature does not give a clear indicator of just how much of the gap might be explained by bias, however.

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And though I'm a strong critic of such practices, I do have a degree of sympathy for the person who has spent, say, 20 years believing that homeopathy really works, and «seeing» it help thousands of people (a fact that can readily be explained by the operation of a whole range of well - documented cognitive biases).

This can readily be explained by reference to any of a number of perceptual failings and cognitive biases.

Even if hindsight bias allows us to point out all the cases where it has turned out to be a mistake — a mistake that sometimes delayed paradigm shifts in science for years or decades — it's still usually best to start by attempting to explain anomalous observations within the theoretical framework we have.

(5) Evolutionary theory is similarly influenced by the reductionistic bias of science, with its tendency to try to understand phenomena in terms of the simplest explanation (the law of parsimony) and to do so by always explaining higher orders of things in terms of lower orders — as if nothing significant were being omitted.

This difference could be explained by a potential bias in the design, analysis, or interpretation of the results obtained in the SRs, depending on whether the authors reported having any financial conflict of interest or not.

These odds can easily be explained by recency bias, which is the tendency to believe that trends we observe in the recent past will continue in the future.

«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.

Saliva is not normally a topic of polite conversation, but it may be the key to explaining the age and sex bias exhibited by influenza and other diseases, according to a new study.

In relation to the differences between genders, this bias could be explained by the role of sex chromosomes, the different regulatory pathways underlying sexual development of most organs, and, finally, the lifelong fluctuating impact of sex hormones.

July 19, 2013 • New research suggests that racial disparities and other biased outcomes in medicine, the criminal justice system, and other areas, can be explained by unconscious attitudes and stereotypes.

But much of the college advantage can be explained by «selection bias» — the differences between those who tend to complete college and those who don't.

The Fordham Institute initially opposed the Obama administration's guidance under the belief that its supporters attribute the «entirety of the gap... to racial bias in the system,» arguing that «the racial suspensions gap [can] be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors [that affect the achievement gap],» such as poverty, fatherlessness, and low levels of parental education.

As explained in a recent paper by William Sanders, not all value - added accountability systems include the full range of statistical properties necessary to preclude all biasing influences.

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).

Women subjects are, unsurprisingly, outnumbered, but Grant explains social biases and how the work of these people was received by their respective cultures.

When we talk about the writing, we explain what we do or don't like, and often the editors will get other «first readers» from inside the company to weigh in on the writing to make sure we're not biased by, say, a few people who just really don't like first - person point - of - view.

We acknowledge that this out - performance could be explained by survivorship bias, if Trump sold under - performing assets prior to disclosing.

As I explain in Reassessment: A Closer Look at «Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap - Neuter - Return» (PDF), careful scrutiny of the authors» claims reveals glaring omissions, blatant misrepresentations, and obvious bias.

As the above figure indicates, the difference in perceived consensus between the left and right can be explained by Kahan's preferred cultural bias explanation, but the «liberal consensus gap» can't.

-- Mathew, 26:52 Fans of Stephan Lewandowsky have learnt that an awful lot can be «explained» simply by invoking the cognitive bias of your preference.

It looks as though most of the difference between the recent and long - term trends in HadCRUT3 can be explained by just the coverage bias and the impact of the El - Nino cycle.

I also explained I don't have any real beefs with ice core data but if you want to state something specific I'm sure I can find something to cast doubt upon it as very little in this debate is writ in granite, confirmation bias is rampant, overconfidence abounds, the race to publish by inexperienced youngsters on the tenure track is heated, and pal review let's just about anything that supports the consensus view get published while simultaneously quashing anything contrary.

I find the comment «skeptics get sacked, rarely get grants and find it harder to get published» both true and telling; it explains some of the bias against them by the establishment and the media.

The Met Office held a briefing for the press to explain that the reduction in warming might be natural variation, or could be accounted for by a mixture of a decrease in stratospheric water vapour and the cooling bias introduced by new methodology.

In Phase II of AeroCom, a large - scale model intercomparison was performed to document the current state of OA modeling in the global troposphere, evaluate the OA simulations by comparison with observations, identify weaknesses that still exist in models, explain the agreements and disagreements between models and observations, and attempt to identify and analyze potential systematic biases in the models.

This bias may be explained by a misrepresentation of mixed - phase extratropical clouds, often pinpointed as playing a key role in driving global - cloud feedback and uncertainties in climate sensitivity estimates (e.g., Tan et.

My personal prejudice: Scientists who publish a paper refining some estimate of SLR and then conclude by explaining how their work «closes the sea level rise budget» are working in ignorance of confirmation bias.

But I'd say that the probabilities of such an outcome would be greater if instead, Person A said something on the order of «I think I see a flaw in your argument, let me see if I can portray your argument correctly and then explain why I think it is flawed, perhaps biased by wishful thinking, a bias that we all tend to have.»

The appellant argued apparent bias on the basis that the juror would have known the inferences to be drawn from the failure of a witness to identify the appellant on a Viper identity parade and from his «no comment» interview, also that the appellant had explained this interview by his dislike of the police.

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.

«By far, the large majority of men and women law students believe there's no gender bias, and one reason is they haven't encountered it yet,» explains Laurel G. Bellows, 2012 — 13 ABA president and a principal in The Bellows Law Group in Chicago.

While gender - based car insurance may seem biased, the following statistics provided by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) help explain why gender is a rating factor for car insurance:

The «too low» DZ correlations can be explained by parent - rating biases that either exaggerate the differences between DZ twins (contrast effects) or that inflate the similarity of MZ twins (assimilation effects), or by the presence of non-additive genetic variance.

If baseline child behavioral traits actually explain associations of high media exposure with later poor outcomes, our current understanding of the detrimental effects of media may have been the product of bias by indication.

However, we eliminated between - person variance and variance caused by individual response tendencies by person - mean centering the variables (Ilies et al., 2010) and since common method variance can not explain nor alter interaction effects (i.e., significant cross-level interaction with work - home segmentation preference; Siemsen et al., 2010), we assume these biases only scarcely influenced our results.

This can be explained by rater bias or by a greater environmental sharing in twins, who are in the same classroom.

Some researchers have argued that associations between abuse and adjustment problems can be explained by reporting biases because many studies of the effects of physical maltreatment use samples for which maltreatment is identified by referral to social service agencies.6 Of the community - wide population of maltreated children, those who are referred may represent a biased, more problematic subgroup.

However, we still need to be cautious in the interpretation of these results, as they may partly be explained by mothers» biased perceptions of their child.

This allows for a fair opinion, free of any bias and backed by market knowledge and expertise,» explains Ridout.