Sentences with phrase «guard against bias»

Policy-wise, the categorical exceptions were intended to offer guidance, minimize erroneous admissions, guard against bias, and provide predictability and stability to evidence law (although the predictability point is debatable, as the categorical system is notoriously complex).

The courts can only really be judged on whether they show bias in their decisions, but solicitors and barristers must also guard against bias in their advice to clients.

There was a discussion about how bias can unintentionally creep into assessments even when they are designed with the best of intentions and how to guard against bias.

No matter how well they guard against bias, such an outlet's tone and story selection would alienate some liberals.

Parents need to understand that anecdotes have to be backed up by population studies; there is no other way to guard against biases and confounding variables.

Rather, I think that individual investors should take his research seriously and develop systems to guard against the biases that he elucidates.

Not exact matches

He knows that he (like most humans) might be prone to this bias, so you'd think he would choose to guard against it and implement the better approach.

Comparing familiar and presumptively protected faiths to an unfamiliar one is a way of guarding against unrecognized bias.

It is against such «wrested, forced and biased interpretation» of historic events that a theory of history must be continuously on guard.

As the demographics of classrooms and school buildings continue to evolve, it is important to examine the extent to which race may influence how teachers interpret and respond to students» behavior and to guard against potential bias.

One rejoinder to this critique is that the multi-layered review process guards against such bias and mitigates the degree to which it is reflected in the assessments.

Procedures to guard against such manipulation of evidence are supposed to be in place whenever biases and conflicts of interest interfere with duties to report the whole truth, especially in assessments that have such potentially drastic policy implications.

To guard against having a biased report, one should look for balance.

To profess an intention to work upon their passions would be in effect to tell them that he meant to bias them by his art and, consequently, would be to warn them to be on guard against him.

Adjudicators must always be aware of this and guard against their own biases in assessing expert evidence.