Sentences with phrase «for potential bias»

I use a statistical method known as robust linear regression with countries as strata and schools (or countries where appropriate) as the primary sampling unit to calculate appropriate standard errors for my findings and to adjust for this potential bias.

Harris Interactive says the results have been weighted to correct for potential bias in its online surveys.

After accounting for potential bias, the researchers concluded that the gender gap for drinking fell by 3.2 percent with each successive five - year generation, but was steepest among those born from 1966 onward.

To control for the potential bias associated with the higher yields obtained with more recent blood culture methods, several multivariate analyses were done.

Without searching for this potential bias in their studies of sexual cannibalism, however, researchers will never know which is true, she says.

In 2015, one group proposed testing data for potential bias by building a computer program that uses people's nonsensitive features to predict their sensitive ones, like race or sex.

As such, they are doing fair job of controlling for this potential bias, within the capabilities of a non-research environment.

And I sell a plant - based protein powder of my own, so this opens the door for some potential bias.

Changes in productivity were estimated within individual firms and across whole industrial sectors, enabling the researchers to control for potential biases and conduct extensive «difference - in - differences» analysis to verify their findings.

A tag attached to the barcode acts as a unique molecular identifier to help account for potential biases introduced through polymerase chain reaction — based amplification.

We observe a cooling trend from 1 to 1800 ce that is robust against explicit tests for potential biases in the reconstructions.

Not exact matches

It showed me that women have to change focus quickly to get beyond any of the potential societal bias that makes sense for the cause, the product or whatever women are promoting.»

At the moment, there's potential for pro-management bias.

Failing to acknowledge the potential for unconscious bias is your company's number one mistake when it comes to developing female and minority leaders.

Rather than making it a witch hunt, it's important to explain that the potential for bias is common but there are ways that companies are helping their workforces to identify and combat it.

May 12, 2016: Facebook releases a 28 - page internal document outlining guidelines for staff curating Trending Topics, in response to media reporting suggesting potential bias.

So unlike brokers, we have no conflict of interest pushing us to recommend high volumes of trades whether we believe in the potential of those trades or not We have no perpetual bias for a bull market as most of Wall Street has to be (to justify the heavily - weighted stance of «buy» vs. «sell,» a stance that always persists even in harshest bear markets) Instead of all of these kinds of anti-investor establishment motivators, we will sell our products on subscription, with a customer - friendly, overwhelming motivation to deliver an experience that will win very profitable renewals for many years to come.

«I am very committed to making sure that Facebook is a platform for all ideas,» he said after Mr. Cruz ticked off several examples of potential liberal bias on the social network.

At present, valuations are elevated, market action is relatively neutral with a deteriorating bias, and a variety of additional considerations suggest the potential for a combination of inflation, economic weakness and credit defaults.

This obligation tends to be under - appreciated in the midst of financial asset bubbles when recency bias blunts the desire to sacrifice the potential for further gains in exchange for protection against losses.

To use smart algorithms responsibly, companies — particularly financial services firms — must identify potential problems early and have a well - conceived plan for addressing and removing unintended bias before it leads to discrimination in their lending practices, as well as potential discriminatory biases that may reach beyond lending and affect other aspects of a company's operations.

GFI aims for diversity in their hires primarily through hiring practices that are intended to help them minimize the effects of bias, such as encouraging staff to score applications anonymously, using generalized ability tests, and meeting applicants only late in the process.88 While they've hired many women, including in seven of nine director roles, they find that their team is lacking in diversity in other ways, and they've met with Encompass to discuss further steps they can take to develop their diversity strategy.89 One staff member we spoke to mentioned that they hoped GFI would be able to begin paying interns, which might help diversify their team by broadening the pool of potential interns who could afford to take a position with GFI.90, 91

what the f**k are all these northern monkeys coming on an arsenal blog for - barton is a sneaky c ** t & knew what he was up to with a potential leg breaking follow through tackle & if any of you neanderthals know ANYTHING about football you'd admit it!but then again when an arsenal hating, useless prick, biased referee will let these thing go what do you expect - does help when you're up against 10 men, corrupt ref though - this i might remind you is the same ref who comically sent wenger to the statds at old trafford for throwing a bottle to the floor!the c ** t has an agenda against us & we sufferd as a result.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

Gorey KM, Leslie DR: The prevalence of child sexual abuse: Integrative review adjustment for potential response and measurement biases.

The results of this study should be interpreted with caution because the breastfeeding team collected breastfeeding outcome data from the intervention group, thus introducing the potential for bias.

These studies are at risk for selection bias both of cases and of control individuals and their results might be influenced by potential confounders such as other health behaviors that may be independently associated both with breastfeeding and childhood leukemia risk, although this is of course not limited to case - control studies.

Although we could not find estimates of fan use in the US population, we examined the potential selection bias by evaluating characteristics associated with SIDS risks in study participants and nonparticipants in a previously published article.16 Using California birth certificate data, we compared the ORs for maternal age, maternal education, parity, birth weight, infant sex, and late initiation of prenatal care (> 5 months» gestation).

By design, that study minimized confounding by measured and unmeasured factors; however, nonblinding of clinicians assessing the cognitive outcomes to participant breastfeeding status suggests the potential for bias.

To correct for limitations, Bauchner et al suggested four standards for breast feeding studies.22 These include avoidance of detection bias, clear definition of the outcome event, clear definition of breast feeding, and adjustment for potential confounding variables.

«Certain groups such as young males and ethnic minorities are overrepresented on the database, and the council will be asking whether this potential for bias in law enforcement is acceptable,» said chairman Bob Hepple.

Universities are particularly sensitive to university space, resources and / or faculty being involved in outside activities during their working hours, and also for potential conflicts of interest, in which your university research could be biased by receiving outside funding from an inappropriate source, as when a drug company has a vested interest in the outcome of your independent research.

«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.»

«The biggest challenge is the potential for unconscious bias, for selecting people who are like you,» says Dahlem.

(Scientists say these so — called implicit associations capture the potential for subtly biased behavior.)

Because of the potential for bias against new and unfamiliar ideas induced by the above practice I believe the peer review system of the NIH as presently constituted, has inherent tendencies to protectionism.

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.

«There were only a handful of studies for each of the 19 instruments, and very few looked at anything that could give us insight into potential bias against racial or minority groups.»

For the study, the Bohn worked closely with TSRI chemist Thomas Bannister, PhD, to develope new potential drug molecules; they then tweaked their chemical structures to systematically vary the «bias» between the two pathways — G protein signaling and beta - arrestin recruitment.

Since this is a hard bias to overcome in the interview setting, I advise people to be themselves but to look for any areas of potential overlap between them and their interviewers.

Using a biased regulatory analysis, the agency excluded the possibility of an act of terrorism as well as the potential for damage from a fire beyond 50 miles of a plant.

Among the areas determined to be flawed and in need of more research are: accuracy and error rates of forensic analyses, sources of potential bias and human error in interpretation by forensic experts, fingerprints, firearms examination, tool marks, bite marks, impressions (tires, footwear), bloodstain - pattern analysis, handwriting, hair, coatings (for example, paint), chemicals (including drugs), materials (including fibers), fluids, serology, and fire and explosive analysis.

The difficult issues for understanding global warming are the potential biases.

Although a scan of the published record for potentially applicable studies turned up 1,553 possible candidates, independent reviewers dismissed most of them as containing either potential biases or major deficiencies in their design or data reports.

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.

Bohn said the new findings clearly demonstrate that the strategy of developing biased KOR agonists offers a promising new way to treat pain and intractable itch without the potential for abuse.

To reduce the potential for racial bias, NIH also plans a pilot project that will test peer review of research proposals that have been made anonymous.

There was also the potential for negative selection bias, because MD Anderson tends to treat patients with fewer than four central nervous system lesions with a stereotactic approach.

This catalog is the first to utilize artificial transit injection to evaluate the performance of our vetting procedures and quantify potential biases, which are essential for accurate computation of planetary occurrence rates.

Finally, a successful study with a Th1 - type adjuvant that did not exhibit the Th2 pathology after challenge would have confirmed a Th2 bias to immune responses as well as provide a potential safe vaccination approach for SARS.