Sentences with phrase «less bias for»

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For managers, the test might cement pre-existing biases, making them less likely to give employees so - called «stretch assignments» that force staff to work outside their comfort zones.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

James Damore was fired by Google on Monday for circulating «Google's Ideological Echo Chamber,» a highly controversial 10 - page memo suggesting that women are underrepresented at the company because of biological differences that make them less inclined to tech and leadership roles and not because of bias.

Notably, the high points in recent rallies reflect a downward bias and the lows for the S&P have more or less bounced off the widely followed 200 - day moving average.

The portfolios of investors just after retaining a financial advisor exhibit relatively high trading activity for restructuring to increase diversification and otherwise lower risk (less home bias and more passive investments).

These biases, along with others, result in less than optimal results for the investor in the longer - term.

The more data you use for testing or training your strategy, the less bias will affect the test result and the more accurate will be the training.

Neither light reading nor cheap (it's hard to find online for less than about $ 75), this book is the most thoughtful and objective analysis of the long - term returns on stocks, bonds, cash and inflation available anywhere, purged of the pom - pom waving and statistical biases that contaminate other books on the subject.

An honest apologetic that presents rational arguments for a particular religious world view is less likely to indoctrinate then a superficially neutral presentation that contains hidden assumptions and bias.

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.

for me, a philosophy or ideologys relevance or ability to resonate often is dependant on whether it can move with time or evolve, it can not remain steadfast on old principles solely under the premise that these principles were or are the best or only way, less you become self righteous or biased and your philosophy loses its credibility.

Twelve of the included studies were judged at low risk of bias for incomplete outcome data on the basis that attrition rate was less than 20 % for all outcomes (other than satisfaction), or missing outcome data were balanced across groups (Begley 2011; Biro 2000; Flint 1989; Harvey 1996; Hicks 2003; Homer 2001; Kenny 1994; McLachlan 2012; North Stafford 2000; Tracy 2013; Turnbull 1996; Waldenstrom 2001).

Additionally, they wrote, the study may have been biased because women who could not be contacted for the study were younger, had less education, had lower incomes, and were less likely to breastfeed.

Again, there was some evidence that the treatment effect may be partly due to bias; sensitivity analysis including only those studies assessed as being at low risk of bias for allocation concealment showed that results still favoured the intervention group although the treatment effect was less pronounced in the studies at lower risk of bias (Analysis 1.8).

My prediction draws on the Labour List poll of Labour Party members as the basis for the CLP prediction except that I think that the Labour List sample is likely to be slightly biased towards the Centre - Right of the party and I therefore give both Abbott and Balls slightly more and David Miliband slightly less.

«What we actually saw was that both typically developing children and children with ADHD developed a preference — what we call «bias» — for the less «punishing» game,» Tripp said.

There will certainly be more: In a paper published in Cell this week, scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, have rigorously demonstrated for the first time in mice that the more biased a compound is toward activating the pain - relieving pathway, the less it suppresses breathing.

A new study out today in Psychology of Women Quarterly examined a well - known space for candid sharing of thoughts — the comments sections of online articles — and found that men are much less likely to agree with scientific evidence of gender bias in STEM than women.

In analysing 28 studies that reported an association between socioeconomic status and bullying, and adjusting for bias, the review showed that bullies were not more likely to come from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and were only marginally less likely to come from the highest socioeconomic levels (2 % less likely).

► Critics worry that this message may make girls and young women less prepared for bias they are bound to encounter and may undercut support for continuing efforts by institutions to attain gender balance in math - based sciences.

The current method is biased, giving less populous states 3 % to 4 % more seats than they deserve, Young reported here on 17 February at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of ScienceNOW).

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

As an alternative, some programs have begun to incorporate measures of non-cognitive skills (e.g., structured interviews that specifically assess these skills [20]-RRB- as less biased and much stronger predictors of potential for long - term success.

Thus, the technology is less prone to GC bias (Figure 1), which might account for the better coverage of Complete Genomics in GC - rich regions such as CpG islands.

As a side result of the study, we identify two distinct populations of planets: those with short periods (d), which are found in orbit only around metal - rich stars with [Fe / H] > ~ -0.07, and those on longer orbits (d), for which the metallicity bias is less marked.

I wish you made some videos for NutritionFacts.org so it can get less biased.

This is beneficial for you, but for other people as well, since you will be less biased about looks.

PDK finds much less support for vouchers than does EdNext, but the wording of the PDK question is strongly biased against vouchers.

This negativity bias also means that smaller, day - to - day stressors tend to take precedence in our thoughts, leaving less room for positive framing or constructive action planning.

Less understood or examined however, is how districts, schools, and educators work to cultivate schools as safe places for students (and adults) who do not conform to our «heteronormative» bias.

Ratings by impartial outsiders are less biased, but teacher - rating forms still have a lot of room for improvement.

Most companies use productivity measures to inform the subjective assessments of supervisors, with some companies permitting less subjective judgment than others for fear of bias or favoritism.

Because value - added measures adjust for the characteristics of students in a given classroom, they are less biased measures of teacher performance than are unadjusted test score measures, and they may be less biased even than some observational measures.

In print, quotes to the press, and social media, Petrilli has expressed doubt over the extent of racial bias in discipline and has argued for the removal of federal discipline guidance, maintaining that it makes schools and students less safe.

This is what this looks like, noting in the figures below that bias exists for both the proficiency and growth measures, although bias in the latter is less yet still evident.

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.

One main concern is reference bias, or the effect of survey respondents» reference points on their answers.37 Students, for example, attending competitive schools often rate themselves as having less self - control or as less hardworking because of their schools» rigorous expectations.38 Accordingly, some experts caution that using SEL to classify schools could ultimately punish high - performing schools while rewarding low - performing schools.39 Additionally, teachers may misinterpret behavior, erroneously rely on first impressions, or incorrectly equate their opinion of a student with the student's social - emotional skills.40

The analysis shows that students of color suffer harsher discipline for lesser offenses than their white peers and that racial bias is a driver of discipline disparities.»

This is especially important when observational (and value - added) data are to be used for high - stakes accountability systems in that the data yielded via really both measurement systems may be less likely to reflect «true» teaching effectiveness due to «true» bias.

People are becoming less intelligent because they no longer read and research anything, instead relying on the internet and social media for «information» much or which is garbage or at best laden with inaccuracies or bias.

8A / 12A switchable Level 1 charging cable CHAdeMO DC quick charge port Battery warming system MiEV remote system (pre-activated air conditioning, heater and timer battery charging) Approaching Vehicle Audio System (AVAS) for alerting pedestrians Charging Times: 3 22 hours for 8amp 14 hours for 12 amp 7 hours with 240V / 15A Level 2 charging system Less than 30 minutes to 80 % full with CHAdeMO Level 3 DC Quick Charger Driving Modes: «D» — allows maximum performance as it generates 100 % torque in direct response to accelerator input «ECO» — helps maximize energy usage («fuel economy») by slightly reducing overall power output to reduce the rate of battery consumption «B» — increases regenerative brake biasing to augment energy recycling (with 100 % of power production available)

Getting the power where it needs to be in the rough stuff is handled by no less than three separate locking differentials — one for the front wheels, one for the rears, and a center unit that divides the power bias between the two ends of the truck, all of which can be configured on the fly by way of a knob on the dash.

Volatility looks to remain subdued but perhaps slightly drifting up, keeping the bias higher for the equity index ETF's SPY, IWM and QQQ, but less so marginally.

Volatility looks to remain low but may creep up a bit keeping the bias higher for the equity index ETF's SPY, IWM and QQQ, but with less support that previously.

There's other benefits: I'm squeezing more investment themes / asset classes into my portfolio — so I end up with far less room for individual holdings, vs. investors who focus exclusively on (regular) equities (& possibly suffer from home bias).

The BarCap U.S. Corporate High Yield - to - Worst 10 - year Treasury spread fell from 5.81 to 4.58, while the US 10 - year Treasury yield bottomed out at 1.32 % on July 6.1 Volatility, in the form of VIX, eased during the third quarter, falling from 15.63 to 13.20.1 Although the economy appeared less vibrant in September, a bias toward higher interest rates, a downward slant in high yield spreads and benign volatility were all favorable for investor risk taking.

That left me generally biased towards UK & (less so) European stocks — no cause for complaint there, both racked up very nice performance in absolute / historical terms.

At best, his work is an interesting pilot study — generating research questions for a more rigorous, less biased investigation.

Black cats face an equally formidable bias: they are far less - likely to be adopted than grey, tabby, and white - coated cats, and have been castigated as «evil omens» for decades.

Since cl1983 suspended me for expressing me opinion on xbox i bought an Xb1x this weekend so i can be less bias.