Sentences with phrase «impacted by bias»

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«The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation — each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.»

«We investigate whether emotional shocks, experienced by a highly - educated group of individuals, have any impact on these individuals» professional behavior which, by law, should be free of personal feelings and biases,» says the report.

Pulled from a study by H. Kent Baker and Victor Ricciardi that looks at how biases impact investor behavior, here are eight biases that can affect investment decisions:

And most importantly, can it outweigh the impact its benefactors have, by definition, already made on global society, simply by amassing huge amounts of wealth, information and power through an inherently long - biased economic system?

With so many things being reported in the world, it is difficult to process information accurately and holistically without being impacted by personal biases.

«We are disappointed by the New York Times» biased approach in this article, which we believe does not accurately reflect the breadth and reality of our product portfolio in the context of the public health issues impacting the people of Brazil,» the spokesperson said.

«However, we still know little about the Phoenicians themselves, except for the likely biased accounts by their Roman and Greek rivals — hopefully our findings and other continuing research will cast further light on the origins and impact of Phoenician peoples and their culture,» she says.

A study published in the 27 September edition of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, examined how bias impacts the peer review process of medical journals by comparing what happens when study authors are identified for reviews, known as a single - blind review, and when the identity of study authors is kept from reviewers, known as double - blind reviews.

We tested the impact of spatial bias by examining global trends in MHW proxies derived from HadSST3 data.

In relation to the differences between genders, this bias could be explained by the role of sex chromosomes, the different regulatory pathways underlying sexual development of most organs, and, finally, the lifelong fluctuating impact of sex hormones.

However, diversifying the pipeline in the short run is limited by constraints on the supply of non-white teachers, which itself is likely a consequence of the impacts of biased expectations and teacher representation discussed above.

This essay begins by detailing cultural biases in textbooks, and what research says about the impact on students of Eurocentric versus ethnic studies curriculum.

Arming educators also could result in accidents or tragic mistakes driven by implicit bias, more likely to impact students of color.

At issue is whether all of this is simply «becoming a distraction,» whether the data can be impacted or «biased» by other statistically uncontrollable factors, and whether all teachers can be evaluated in similar ways, which is an issue with «fairness.»

A recent study by Mindset Scholars David Yeager and Geoff Cohen, along with their colleagues Valerie Purdie - Vaughns and Sophia Yang - Hooper, explores how students» levels of trust in their schools evolves over time, and examines the impact of ethnic and racial biases on trust.

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.

The second scatterplot I ran to test how bias that only impacts a small group of teachers might theoretically impact an overall correlation, as posited by Audrey.

In October 2015, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) established an Interagency Policy Group to identify policies and practices to increase diversity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce both in the Federal Government and in federally - funded institutions of higher education, by reducing the impact of implicit and explicit bias in their respective recruitment, hiring, development and training processes.

The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation - each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.

For an insight into the impact of survivorship bias I suggest you read this article by Cesar -LSB-...]

However it is one thing to suspect that biases might remain in a dataset (a sentiment shared by everyone), it is quite another to show that they are really have an impact.

Political diversity is likely to have a variety of positive effects by reducing the impact of confirmation bias and groupthink / majority consensus.

However, the impact of coverage bias is pretty clear; it can be seen by simply looking at a coverage and anomaly map as we did here, or by assessment of coverage bias using GISTEMP, or by the less valid but independent assessment using UAH.

The impact of sea surface temperature bias was further investigated by using uncoupled atmospheric models with prescribed sea surface temperatures, and those 3 models each with differing complexity showed less severe double ITCZ bias than the ensemble of coupled models.

It looks as though most of the difference between the recent and long - term trends in HadCRUT3 can be explained by just the coverage bias and the impact of the El - Nino cycle.

So the airports that are most likely to have a significant impact need to be and remain rural, be so big that moderating effects from the surrounding countryside don't have much effect, and be expanding so that their bias keeps growing and thus isn't compensated out by the analysis method.

For example, our results corroborate with others by showing that high impact journals typically report large effects based on small sample sizes (Fraley and Vazire 2014), and high impact journals have shown publication bias in climate change research (Michaels 2008, and further discussed in Radetzki 2010).

Second, and even more importantly, M&M had neglected to assess the overall impact of any bias engendered by Mann et al's PCA.

As policy makers contend with deve - loping responses to climate change and its impacts in Alaska and beyond, it is imperative that the use and interpretation of scientific studies to support policy development minimizes any potential for bias by giving due consideration to the methodsused to estimate temperature change.

«We use the siting classification system developed by Michel Leroy for Meteofrance in 1999 and improved in 2010 which quantifies the effect of heat sinks and sources within the thermometer viewshed by calculation of the area - weighted and distance - weighted impact of biasing elements to calculate both raw and gridded 30 year for each surveyed station, using temperature data from USHCNv2.

If the TLT algorithm is impacted by either seasonal or latitudinal influences, would that induce another source of bias in the measurements, such as increasing the stratospheric component at polar latitudes?

An important recently published study by Monica Biernat, M. J. Tocci and Joan C. Williams clearly shows the adverse impact of implicit gender bias on women lawyers.

Napoleone says that it's possible to end up with bias lighting that is too bright, a situation that starts to negatively impact picture quality by making the image seem too dark compared to the surrounding space.

Claire also lessened the potential impact of unconscious bias by implementing a very unique hiring process.

Scientists call it «negativity bias,» with the theory being that negative news impacts our brain more significantly than positive news and, thus, preserves our species by enabling humans to remember anything that can kill us or harm us.

The impact of this measurement problem and the other biases that could be related to the use of mother ratings, however, are reduced by the fact that the aggression trajectories are based on 3 different ratings over a 3 - year period.

In partnership with researchers from related projects in Canada, the UK, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Aboriginal organisations and policymakers, we will analyse whole - of - population data for New South Wales (NSW) to investigate the determinants of positive early childhood development in Aboriginal children, and assess the impacts of two «real - world» programmes that were implemented under circumstances where evidence of their efficacy was unable to be derived from RCTs: the NSW Aboriginal and Maternal Infant Health Service (AMIHS) 45 and the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) Brighter Futures Program.46 Early evaluations of these programmes suggested some positive changes in proximal outcomes related to their objectives.45, 47, 48 However, each of these evaluations was limited by one or more of the following: use of single data sets, less than 2 years of outcome data and / or issues of confounding and selection bias.