Sentences with phrase «less biased about»

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

Not exact matches

When it comes to cable news networks like CNN, D'Alessio believes the disproportionate coverage of Trump's campaign was less about political bias and more a factor of Trump's own expert manipulation of the modern media landscape.

I have a bullish view about gold, cryptocurrencies, and the Yen, while having a bearish bias towards US stocks and China and a less pronounced negative bias towards Europe, Japan, and other risk - assets.

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.

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

Especially since USA is a lot less worried about nukes in Iran compared to say KSA which you didn't even mention (I'll randomly guess because it doesn't fit your own bias that this is all about Israel)

Contrarians read as much as possible about all the different ways to approach a problem and then they choose their own road, with perhaps a slight bias in favor of the less traveled road.

Our self - perception is always biased, and asking a stranger requires less vulnerability than asking someone whose opinion of you you actually care about.

Racially diverse teachers might be more culturally sensitive and less likely to subscribe to biased stereotypes about their students.

Second, our estimates of teacher biases suggests that all teachers are overly optimistic about whether their students will complete college, but that white teachers are less optimistic about black students than are black teachers.

While, as a whole we might be less concerned about bias when such factors are included in VAMs, there (likely forever will be) cases where bias will impact individual teachers.

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.

More specifically, the district and its teachers are not coming to an agreement about how they should be evaluated, rightfully because teachers understand better than most (even some VAM researchers) that these models are grossly imperfect, largely biased by the types of students non-randomly assigned to their classrooms and schools, highly unstable (i.e., grossly fluctuating from one year to the next when they should remain more or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the like.

Second, Flowers clearly does not know much about current standardized tests in that they are all constructed under contract with the same testing companies, they all include the same types of items, they all measure (more or less) the same set of standards... they all undergo the same sets of bias, discrimination, etc. analyses, and the like.

Mainly based off a fairly infamous video made about the game, but hopefully the text version of the article is a bit less biased and explains the thoughts from the video more clearly.

Based on a Columbia University conference organized by the National Arts Journalism Program, The New Gatekeepers explores the reconfigured ranks of those who decide what the public gets to see, hear and read, from struggles over intellectual property and copyright, to continuing debates about acceptable and offensive content in the cultural marketplace, to the less visible biases of the arts funding system.

Th 14: BPL, you will hear me cheering from all the way across the pacific the day you become far less myopic, not so narrowly constrained and basically far less biased and more open - minded about reality.

In addition, even if external agendas do not bias researchers» decisions about what to publish and what to cite, the level of quality and traceability of data, methods, and code that maximizes community discovery rates is generally less than the one that maximizes the policy usefulness of research.

Talk about ones bias affecting their judgment, people who criticized Palin's lack of experience were able to turn a blind eye to Obama having less.

When these biases are taken into account, the «unusual global warming» that everybody has become so worried about becomes a lot less «unusual».

Honest questions: I assume you're not saying that I should not discuss potential biases in your analyses, but that I should about it less?

[added: His method allows for biases to enter that are mostly about station composition, and less about infilling see this post from Zeke]

Well, according to Charles Taber and Milton Lodge of Stony Brook, one insidious aspect of motivated reasoning is that political sophisticates are prone to be more biased than those who know less about the issues.

Previously, available information was limited to reports focused on the Am Law 100 (which makes up only about 20 percent of the legal industry), or survey results, which are subject to inherent biases and are therefore less reliable.

We all pay the price with a less productive economy when qualified workers are passed over for opportunities to maximize the use of their skills, because of biased assumptions about family caregivers.

Peers» opinions tend to carry less weight, as these references tend to be friends who are biased and may offer very little about your professional attributes (like following directions, problem - solving, creative thinking).

It is difficult to quantify the extent to which these variations in observation rates will have biased the estimates of child temperament, but based on evidence from the first birth cohort about children's socioemotional development which showed that conduct disorder is less common in children from more advantaged social groups (Bromley and Cunningham - Burley, 2010), it is likely that some bias will have been introduced.