Sentences with phrase «high error rates»

The examination of this issues derives from a series of studies conducted that document the high error rates connected with eyewitness identification.

Most important, manual reconciliations have high error rates and those errors will get you into trouble

No one ever has been able to explain it well to me, and I therefore think most of these judgements are fraught with biases of all sorts, high error rates, and general silliness.

On this note, and «[i] n sum, recent research on value added tells us that, by using data from student perceptions, classroom observations, and test score growth, we can obtain credible evidence [albeit weakly related evidence, referring to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's MET studies] of the relative effectiveness of a set of teachers who teach similar kids [emphasis added] under similar conditions [emphasis added]... [Although] if a district administrator uses data like that collected in MET, we can anticipate that an attempt to classify teachers for personnel decisions will be characterized by intolerably high error rates [emphasis added].

Gates also broke from some of his allies in the reform movement, like New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, to decry the public release of teachers» value - added ratings, which are based on their students» standardized test scores and have high error rates.

Mathematica, a research group that published a 2010 study warning about the use of value - added modeling in high - stakes decisions because of high error rates, was paid more than $ 500,000 to design the value - added model for the Washington, D.C. public schools, according to a DCPS spokesman.

If a placement tool isn't accurate or reliable, it can result in high error rates — truly prepared students being assigned to remediation, or truly unprepared students being assigned to college - level courses — which could undermine the effectiveness of the remedial «treatment.»

But clinical diagnoses have extraordinarily high error rates.

Conventional near - infrared semiconductor detector systems are limited by low sensitivity and high error rates and can not count numbers of photons.

Regarding phlyogeny v. phylogenetics, if what you meant to say was that phylogeny based on morphology has been shown to be false or is confounded by unreasonably high error rates in light of phylogenetic techniques, you're patently incorrect as the prior trees based on morphology have consistently, albeit not perfectly, matched the trees produced by genetic comparisons.

No one ever has been able to explain it well to me, and I therefore think most of these judgements are fraught with biases of all sorts, high error rates, and general silliness.

The question is which set of mistakes is worse» that is, who will have the higher error rate, the human beings or the drones.

The judge presiding over the stop - and - frisk trial in NYC has left little question as to her opinion on the practice, criticizing the NYPD's «high error rate.»

Moreover, we demonstrated that although the Oxford Nanopore technology is a relatively new sequencing technology, currently with a high error rate, it is already useful in the generation of high - quality genome assemblies.

We disregarded CGG10023, due to insufficient genome coverage and high error rate, and Twilight, which represents the Thoroughbred horse used for generating the EquCab2.0 assembly and is therefore expected to show a strong deficit of derived alleles.

However, when we extracted gene expression levels from the brain transcriptome data following the methodology in Carneiro et al. [29], we found that levels of nucleotide diversity and the proportion of low frequency variants between lowly (bottom 5 %) and highly (top 5 %) expressed genes in our dataset (Table S7) were not significantly different in most comparisons (with the exception of π in O. c. cuniculus) nor did they consistently differ in the expected direction when assuming higher error rates in lowly expressed genes.

A major critique is that the HBT is not seen as being a reliable measure due to a high error rate.

There are a multitude of other problems with this practice, problems like the high error rate that is commonly known to exist among credit reporting agencies; the reality that certain types of employment, jobs that are dominated by people of color specifically, actually have a negative effect on one's credit history.

What could possibly account for such a high error rate?

Some states reported having problems administering this type of system, which in some states had a high error rate, including «mismatch» problems.

The Fitbit Surge came closest, with an error rate of roughly 27 %, while the PulseOn performed the worst with a shockingly high error rate of 92.6 %.

On the 10fastfingers.com typing test, I hit 102 words per minute, which is slightly slower than normal for me, and I got a very high error rate of 8 percent.

Not exact matches

A 2013 Federal Trade Commission study found that 20 percent of consumers identified errors on their reports that might affect their score, and 5 percent had an error significant enough that it could result in their paying higher loan rates.

Although Facebook has worked on AI that could identify hate speech, the error rates are just too high, he said.

A credit review cited in the KPMG report found that his mortgages had a lower error rate than those of the other high volume producers on the unit, and there has been no accusation of wrongdoing on his part.

The rate of errors may be even higher today, some evidence suggests, despite the millions of dollars spent on much - touted patient - safety efforts.

The field of imagination at any rate is broad, ranging from automatic, instinctual, or reflex actions (in which the problem of meaning is virtually, but not entirely, non-existent), to more or less habitual modes of response to «natural signs,» and rising ultimately to sophisticated conceptual activity and various poetic or secondary forms of meaning — making in cultural and social significations.19 In the higher reaches of semiotic activity an increase in imaginative freedom is accompanied by a greater risk of error.

I have said it so many times that the rate of errors caused by a combination of Gab and Kos is far higher higher than that of Per and either of them.

All sorts of hilarious errors — using one type of data (ICD10 code data from «white healthy women» and essentially comparing the best possible data from one set of hospital data related to low - risk births to the worst possible single set of data related to high - risk at - home births)-- if you use the writer's same data source for hospital births but include all comers in 2007 - 2010 (not just low - risk healthy white women), the infant death rate is actually 6.14 per 1000, which is «300 % higher death rate than at - home births!»

Across all three, the error rates for gender classification were consistently higher for females than they were for males, and for darker - skinned subjects than for lighter - skinned subjects.

The error rate in the US has been estimated at 3 to 4 per cent, but it could be much higher.

«High efficiency and a low error rate are absolutely essential in low - throughput experiments of this sort.»

«Emergency department crowding is clearly linked to worse patient care and worse outcomes, including higher mortality rates, higher rates of complications, and errors,» said Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation, professor of emergency medicine and health policy at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

The device has made it possible for researchers to study bacteria and viruses in the field, but its high error - rate and large sequencing gaps have, until now, limited its use on human cells with their billions of nucleotides.

Forget about infinitesimal error rates like one in a trillion; the transistors in Neurogrid will crackle with noise, misfiring at rates as high as 1 in 10.

If we incorporate C / EBPα, the same process takes only a few days, has a much higher success rate and less possibility of errors,» states the young scientist.

These rates, however, are still significantly higher than error rates when comparing two photos of entirely different people.

Reasons can be found in lower error rates, higher predictability, and continuity in behavior.

As these rates are generally thought to be higher than the error rate of Complete Genomics sequence data, a number of discrepancies are to be expected.

When looking at these data, please keep in mind that most estimates of the error rate in dbSNP are relatively high, as are most estimates of the error rate in publicly available dbSNP genotypes of reference samples.

This viral response reflects a combination of a high rate of replication together with an error - prone RNA - dependent RNA polymerase, providing for the selection and proliferation of the viruses with the highest fitness.

Several applications, including RNA - seq, haplotype sequencing and 16S sequencing, are however limited by its relatively high single read error rate (> 10 %).

** Typically developing participants demonstrated significantly higher correct rate of Social emotion condition compared with individuals with ASD (P = 0.009); bar = standard error.

In one study, this accounted for error rates as high as 4 percentage points.

It is not unreasonable to believe that error rates are higher in education because of the lack of reliable heuristics and a relatively thin research base.

The error associated with using initial performance to predict future performance appears to be quite high: the false negative rate is 68 percent.

The error associated with using initial performance to predict future performance appears to be quite high: only 32 percent of teachers classified as low - performing in math are in the lowest performance quintile in future years, meaning that the false negative rate is 68 percent.

In Reign of Error, Ravitch makes clear that, contrary to the statements being made about disastrous public school test scores and graduation rates, these figures are the highest they've ever been in history — and that dropout rates are at their lowest, this according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a no - stakes test for children of all races.

However, they too have found that such error rates persist to an extent that still prohibits high - stakes decision making.

Another confusing element of KIPP's performance metrics was highlighted in a letter — issued March 16 during both the charter expansion and the disparate suspension controversies — which said KIPP had made a clerical error and did not have the nation's third - highest suspension rate (71 percent) for black charter school students in 2011 - 2012.