Sentences with phrase «few other biases»

The statistics behind hedge fund marketing suffer from backfill bias, survivor bias, and a few other biases.

Not exact matches

In practical business terms, if I quickly establish myself as credible through just a few good decisions in a row, a few good first impressions, or any other set of positive interactions, I am establishing positive confirmation bias.

The firms that execute well this year will stand out and create a survivorship bias — where a few companies thrive and others fail, but people focus on the winners and ignore the losers.

What Untold has done that very few others have is to expose a number of factors, but in particular blatantly biased refereeing, which have affected Arsenal's performances for about a decade.

In contrast to previous studies of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the new study is one of the few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.

You may or may not agree with me on this point but when compared to the trailers of the other superhero films of the summer — «Thor,» «Green Lantern,» and «Captain America: The First Avenger» — X-Men: First Class was outclassed (I'll admit some bias as I was underwhelmed by the last few X-Men flicks [«X-Men Origins: Wolverine» and «X-Men: The Last Stand «-RSB- too).

Mr. Lear would follow that triumph with «The Jeffersons,» «Sanford and Son,» and «Maude,» to name a few of his programs that were watched by 120 million people a week at their peak — all educating the nation, with belly laughs, about sexism, racism, and other deep - seated biases.

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.

Because of the few that have done such things the majority within the breed pay for it in breed bias and bans in many areas, insurance hassles for their owners and other issues for having done nothing but being the same breed.

You could leave out one or a few (depending on the size of n) of those Xs, the results probably won't be compromised or compromised much — assuming that data were not cherry - picked out, but deleted for some other random reason unrelated to biasing the dataset.

This analysis supports the ECMWF statement, and was based on a few high - quality temperature series scattered across our planet, chosen to be sufficiently far from each other to minimize mutual dependencies that can bias the analysis.

In our video chat, he and the other authors acknowledged the challenge in gaining traction, even with such findings, given the deep - rooted human bias toward immediate gratification and the development and energy gaps that mean today's poorer nations have few affordable choices other than fossil fuels.

Granted, I am biased because of my own background at Shell International, but at least Shell, BP and a few others in the carb business are ready to be serious.

There are actually a few other interesting implications of non-linearity besides uncertainty and bias.

In one of my other recent articles, I describe how the PBS NewsHour's 1996 - to - present bias in its global warming discussion segments presents only four instances where any semblance of skeptic science points were mentioned out of more than 355 on - air broadcast discussions (plus a few online pages directly relating to some of those segments).

A selection of potential defendants is beneficial because it opens up the opportunity to select a venue with fewer biases against or other inconveniences for your client.

As this study used only the CBCL externalizing subscale that is comprised of few behaviors that may be directly attributed to chronic illness, it is less influenced by bias in reporting or interpretation of somatic symptoms than some other CBCL subscales.