Sentences with phrase «factors skewing the results»

Not exact matches

One factor that could have skewed this year's results was that last year's Prime Day was for 24 rather than 30 hours, and included fewer countries.

The results were skewed slightly by the fact that more people stuck to the meat free diet than stuck to the omnivorous one — 55 per cent kept strictly to their veggie regimen, compared with only 32 per cent on the other diet — but that could just show that when it comes to keeping people interested in healthy eating, deliciousness is a factor too.

There are many factors that can affect the accuracy of your reading and skew your results one way or the other.

After accounting for factors like age, race, medications and socioeconomic status, which could skew the results, they looked for patterns that suggested links between mental illness and infection rates.

Among factors that might skew the results: failure of participants — especially those with tumors — to accurately recall exactly how long and often they talk on their cell phones.

Another confounding factor in earlier studies: Researchers sampled DNA from modern purebred dogs, which are the result of generations of artificial selection and hybridization by breeders, skewing the genetic timeline of when wolves and dogs parted ways.

For example, she points out, it does not account for the number of questions on a survey, the number of respondents, nor other factors that can skew the results.

Furthermore, the number of people and the types of vegetation present were similar in both the noisy and the quiet locations, eliminating the chance these factors could skew any results.

The particular model Park and his colleagues used, she said, is not specifically designed for the Arctic, where a number of factors could skew the results.

The researchers only measured heart health at the beginning of the study, and the heart - disease risk factors of some participants may have changed significantly in the following decade, potentially skewing the results.

Which factors can affect lab test values in the short term and skew test results in misleading ways?

When you factor in all the test results that fall into categories like these, the data being gleaned from them is so skewed it's irrelevant.

Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts - Holmes, of University College London Institute of Education, who undertook research with teachers after the original trials, say many factors could have skewed the results, such as whether the child was summer born, spoke English as a first language, or had settled happily into school.

Today, using Star 360, we can ensure the same testing - environment experience for every student and eliminate that as a factor in skewing results.

One of the factors not considered in the polls is the age of the responders, which could definitely skew the results.

Results can be skewed by multiple factors, including survivorship - bias, share class differences, «improper» categorization, adviser and fund ownership changes, multiple sub-advisers, and inconsistent time frames... three months is too short to matter, lifetime is too long to care.

Probably the biggest factor NAR used to skew their results in favor of real estate agents was to include mobile and manufactured homes in the sample.