Sentences with phrase «for issues of bias»

This is true not only for stability, but also for issues of bias (another claim commonly leveled against VAMs that may well apply to observational and student survey measures).

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Eight days after the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the arrests of two African - American men at a Philadelphia Starbucks for trespassing when they opted not to order anything has catapulted the issue of racial bias into the national spotlight.

Lastly only data results that would concern me is the clientele bias of Personal Capital and it's not an issue as long as you consider who is signing up for PC, my guess is the that most people who sign up have positive net worth's, someone who receives a welfare or unemployment check is highly unlikely to want to know their net worth.

Marlene Williamson, CEO of Watermark, a Silicon Valley organization dedicated to women in leadership, said not only will Kalanick's resignation help Uber get back on track — his departure will have ramifications for other Bay Area tech companies struggling with their own issues of gender bias and sexual harassment.

He has been wrong on many of the issues on which he has opined, not least his speech on home bias and his pleadings for U.S. homeowners to refinance their mortgages and use home equity as a piggy bank.

Clearly my bias is showing, and there's obviously a lot more nuance to both partiest, the main issue though is that parties can be hijacked and have been on both sides which leaves the large majority of moderates voting for the lesser of two evils and hoping that the candidate that they vote for will drop the pandering they did to the fringe and go moderate.

I said: «Maybe that is the issue for some Christians — that for some of them, their faith in Christ is not dependent on the moral biases of men who lived thousands of years ago allegedly represented in the Bible.»

Maybe that is the issue for some Christians — that for some of them, their faith in Christ is not dependent on the moral biases of men who lived thousands of years ago allegedly represented in the Bible.

This doctrinal bias is almost completely absent in the latest American revision, for the participation of scholars of widely differing points of view has tended to cancel out the biases that might affect privately issued translations.

«We're doing close to $ 15 billion worth of trade with the Arab region and this is a very important area of our economy and trade obviously contributes to prosperity so it's important for us to view these issues objectively and calmly and not to resort to knee jerk reactions and biased comments.»

Topics are focused on the unique issues and opportunities facing women working in the alcohol beverage industry, including why gender diversity is good for business, mentoring to empower the next generation of leaders, understanding unconscious bias, thriving in the male - dominated alcohol beverage industry, and others.

Where I disagree with though is on this issue of «Arsenal bias» — I actually think there is an endemic bias against Wenger amongst Gooners, not for him.

Everyone knows how I stood up for Rosicky last year and Cazorla early this season when he had his bad patch so, any issue of bias is completely over-ruled.

@ harry barracuda, words such as u used to describe an event, eagerly anticipated by a population of about 500 million people, shows how stupid and insensitive people such as you can be, the African nations cup is not,» stupid, crap, pointless or in your words f**king thing,» if that is the case, then you are implying that such players that represent their nation, do that for a «crap pointless stupid f**king reason.Get a grip my friend, this is a place to dicuss arsenal related issues, not a forum for your biased foolishness.And, oh yeah KOLO stays.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

A common issue is that nutritional studies are often plagued with a number of biases and are often poorly designed (small samples, cross-sectional, etc.) Still, it makes as much sense to use the 6 month marker for all babies for eating solids as it does expecting your child to walk right at 12 months, to speak at 15 months, and to eliminate on a potty at 24 months on the dot.

The emotionality embedded in identity issues must be accounted for as it is a strong generator of political biases within and across state borders.

SAG - AFTRA, the union representing some Sinclair Broadcast Group employees, issued a memo defending news anchors who are under scrutiny for reading a promo warning viewers of media bias.

The majority of New Yorkers support our issues: marriage equality, banning discrimination against transgender New Yorkers, and making sure schools are safe from bias and harassment for all students.

Herbst blasted Malloy for accusing Hartley of anti-gay bias and for raising the issue of religion.

«As a result, the influence of external activities such as consulting or speaking fees, research grant funding and stock ownership has the potential to create significant bias and uncertainty for issued recommendations.»

In a statement issued on 12 October, the U.S. Department of State cited three reasons for its decision: UNESCO has an «anti-Israel bias,» needs «fundamental reform,» and the United States has a mounting financial debt to the organization that, under U.S. law, it can not pay.

The underlying reasons for these gender and race differences are unknown, though researchers suggest that it may relate to access issues, denial of care or provider bias.

AAAS, too, has repeatedly addressed this issue, including at symposia on the exploration of the early underpinnings of gender bias in the scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematical fields for elementary age girls, and on new ways to expand the numbers of underrepresented groups in those fields — both held at its 2016 Annual Meeting in February.

Although reanalysis of the available evidence is important, the ability to properly control for bias and confounding [factors that can influence outcomes] in observational studies is often limited, and without randomized controlled trials specifically designed to test the hypothesis, the issue of nonspecific effects of vaccines may remain subject to continuing debate.»

Actively resisting bias is hard work for the brain, researchers reported in the April issue of Scientific Reports, even when it comes to something as simple and ordinary as musical preferences.

The research, published in the journal Obesity, showed that higher levels of «weight - bias internalization» — the term for what happens when people are aware of negative stereotypes about obesity and apply those stereotypes to themselves — were associated with more cases of metabolic syndrome, a combination of health issues that raise the risk for heart disease and diabetes.

There are significant unresolved issues in all studies - about the adequacy of controls for family background, the possibility of differential bias at different levels of aggregation, and the use of weak measures of achievement and spending.

The possibility of such bias is one justification for the Office of Civil Rights» involvement in the issue of school discipline.

In order to circumvent the issue of selection bias in the case of mandatory retention policies like the one proposed for Michigan, recent studies have utilized a statistical approach that compares children who fall just above and just below the cutoff used to determine retention.

I also should note that researchers in this study clearly conducted this study with similar a priori conclusions in mind (i.e., that the Common Core should be saved / promoted); hence, future peer review of this piece may be out of the question as the bias evident in the sets of findings would certainly be a «methodological issue,» again, likely preventing a peer - reviewed publication (see, for example, the a priori conclusion that «[this] study highlights an important advantage of having a common set of standards and assessments across multiple states,» in the abstract (p. 3).

This topic also introduced the issue of the need for sensitivity training through courses that help student teachers become aware of, identify, and target their own biases to overcome them before beginning their education career.

But while the Sentinel series can be forgiven for raising legitimate problems with a handful of facilities — issues that certainly merit discussion — the series also blatantly ignores facts that do not support its confirmation bias against the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship and its member schools.

One issue likely causing this level of bias is that student background factors are not accounted for in the EVAAS model.

Research for Action «s report titled: «Pennsylvania's School Performance Profile: Not the Sum of its Parts» details some serious issues with bias with the state's SPP..

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

To account for the issue of selection bias and the potentially unobserved parent characteristics as the possible reason choice students appear to perform better in my first comparison, I next also accounted for the parent - related variables.

She used R (i.e., a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics) to simulate correlation scatterplots (see Figures below) to illustrate three unique situations: (1) a simulation where there are two indicators (e.g., teacher value - added and observational estimates plotted on the x and y axes) that have a correlation of r = 0.28 (the highest correlation coefficient at issue in the aforementioned post); (2) a simulation exploring the impact of negative bias and a moderate correlation on a group of teachers; and (3) another simulation with two indicators that have a non-linear relationship possibly induced or caused by bias.

AEI's Rick Hess and Brendan Bell recently slammed mainstream media outlets for biased coverage of the Higher Education Act provisions in the recent tax bill: «If professional journalists can't manage to [cover serious policy debates] when it comes to education, it's hard to imagine how they can do it on the most important and polarizing issues of the day.»

The Department of Transportation is issuing a third «Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections» final rule to enhance protections for air travelers and to improve the air travel environment as follows: expanding the pool of reporting carriers for service quality data; requiring reporting carriers to include service quality data for their domestic scheduled flights operated by their code - share partners; enhancing the Department's code - share disclosure regulation to codify the statutory requirement that carriers and ticket agents must disclose any code - share arrangements on their websites on the first display presented in response to a search of a requested itinerary for each itinerary involving a code - share operation; and prohibiting undisclosed biasing based on carrier identity by carriers and ticket agents in any electronic displays of the fare, schedule or availability information of multiple carriers.

Having started with the Boys» Reading Commission report from the National Literary Trust for 2012, Emmett cites the commission's determination that boys may have trouble finding material that interests them and, on Page 22, a note reading: «Some teachers and librarians asserted that it is a supply issue and linked it to the female bias of the publishing industry.»

The cover story («Best Tips Ever «-RRB- from MoneySense «s current 15th Anniversary issue really hammers away at that point here: Investors must always watch out for hidden fees and biased advised, and keep costs low in order to keep more of their returns.

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.

There is a lot of evidence for all the arguments, but about half can be interpreted as bias or ignorance on gender issues depending on who is delivering it.

In this case, there has been an identification of a host of small issues (and, in truth, there are always small issues in any complex field) that have involved the fidelity of the observations (the spatial coverage, the corrections for known biases), the fidelity of the models (issues with the forcings, examinations of the variability in ocean vertical transports etc.), and the coherence of the model - data comparisons.

Whether the issue is tracking Arctic methane or American stream flows, there's a vital need for sustained, consistent observations, but — unfortunately — there's a two - edged bias against such investments, given the appeal of focusing on science's frontiers and the tendency to target monitoring programs — which are akin to bridge maintenance — when looking to cut budgets.

If you don't understand the psychological biases and heuristics that technical experts, policy - makers, and the general public, use in thinking about uncertain risks, you won't be able to communicate effectively because people will unconsciously distort what you say to fit their preconceived (possibly faulty) mental model of the issue (see M. Granger Morgan, «Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach» (Cambridge, 2001) for solid empirical evidence of this problem and how to avoid it.

I don't see why the large - scale systematic urban bias issue isn't best addressed by an estimate in the style of McKittrick — looking for residual correlation between regional economic activity and regional temperature anomaly — even for those who object to the specific implementation in that paper.

Sorry, Judith; but I fail to see why an article by a completely biased author who's stated goal is to advocate a position and not learn about an issue is a «must read» The military does contingency planning for a very wide range of potential issues / concerns.