Sentences with phrase «less biased on»

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We all know that music can affect our mood — pumping us up before a big event, helping us get in the productivity zone, or providing a soothing soundtrack to our lowest moments - but a stack of recent studies also shows music can affect us on an even deeper level, making us more generous and empathetic, and less biased, reports Summer Allen in Greater Good Magazine.

«Overseas Development Aid from Europe is still focused on former colonies, but it is becoming less and less biased... Colonial links are very strong; it is incredible how strong still are, given the years that have passed,» Ravi Bhatia, a director at Standard & Poor's who specializes in Africa, told CNBC this week.

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.

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.

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.

Just because you have a Show on tv and have a mic in your face doesn't make your takes any less idiotic and less bias.

The thing is if you have a team that has a strong mentality and usually dominant on the pitch then the ref has little say on the true outcome and less of an influence on being biased.

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.

The randomized intervention design is one of strengths in our study, providing less biased estimates of impact of the intervention on socioeconomic inequalities.

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).

These contributions were perceived to be less biased and less agenda driven than those from the politicians, being based on experience rather than political calculation.

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Nice answer, but I would like to add that any such rating is based on giving numerical values to very complex realities, and such evaluations are always opinable and may be very sensible to observator bias («If in my country we do things this way then any country that does it differently is less democratic»).

The investigator, Florence L. Finkle, is leaving less than a month after a damning federal inquiry chronicled assaults on teenage inmates by guards at Rikers, and criticized the division she oversaw as «ineffectual,» «understaffed» and biased in favor of correction officers.

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.

In a separate study, instructors changed the curriculum in three different courses to place higher or lesser value on high - stakes exams (e.g., midterms and finals) and observed gender - biased patterns in performance.

Researchers said it was unclear why Blacks reported less discrimination in later years, although the change coincided with medical schools putting increased emphasis on implicit bias training, which aims to root out unconscious discrimination.

The sign and size of the bias would depend on the relative magnitude of the average and variance of the underreporting, as well as the covariance between the underreported, and other variables in the model, and would be typically less than the omitted variable bias were these variables to be left out (10, 11).

Based on our initial work at Berkeley Earth, I believe that some of the most worrisome biases are less of a problem than I had previously thought.

«Inference via virus sequences is less subject to biases than inference based on reported incidence data, particularly when public health systems collecting those data are overwhelmed,» Alizon said.

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).

Moreover, in PrEn precursors, the Nanog low population can itself be split based on the expression of Oct4 or SSEA - 1 into a state expressing reasonably high level of PrEn genes (V+S −), and a less differentiated cell type exhibiting a PrEn bias, but with similar regenerative capacities to the Nanog high population (V+S +).

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.

We have chosen the PEBO as an example because 1) it is a topic that is amenable to conducting randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and thus, there are not insurmountable barriers to moving beyond observational evidence, and 2) it seems like a less politically charged topic than the topics of some previous publications on biased reporting [eg, sugar - sweetened beverages (2, 3) and breastfeeding (4)-RSB- to better facilitate the discussion of extrascientific factors that affect the fidelity of research reporting.

Jewcier is a dating website that has less emphasis on religion and allows more of its users to interact with each other freely without any bias.

And then on a macro level explains that people are becoming LESS biased towards interracial dating.

It doesn't help that this is an Eighties flick, redolent of the standard biases of the decade: Since Stiller and McCarthy are playing trust - fund babies (in a manner of speaking), the filmmakers are far less afraid to flaunt their penniless affectations than those of the actual poverty - stricken characters — like Ringwald's, who appears on - screen only in conjunction with Matt.

Our estimates are based on the performances of 4th and 8th graders, making them less susceptible to bias from opt - out activity.

A community where all students feel free from bias, discrimination, and harassment is a place where bullying is less likely to occur, where it will be handled in ways that seek to understand and address students» real needs, and where children's cognitive and psychological resources are freed up to focus on learning.

There has been less emphasis on what we might call «doorway» books, literature that illustrates what actions young people can take to challenge the bullying, bias, and injustice they see in their lives.

We find that the degree of bias is, on average, less than 2 percent.

On both implicit and explicit measures, young minority children tend to show less bias than White children.

Ariely examines what makes us more and less likely to cheat, including biases incentives, signed pledges, social dynamics, and other factors that impact honesty in the office, on Wall Street, in schools and everywhere in our lives.

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

This includes many non-English speaking or minority students, who are often tested on the Ravens in an attempt to less racially or linguistically biased.

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.

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.

A prettier, less track - biased car with a greater focus on cabin amenities than mechanical matters might have been a bigger seller, but it wouldn't have been half as compelling.

Steering was confident, and not as heavy as the Colorado 7's, but the Isuzu's grip was less inspiring, perhaps let down by Bridgestone Dueler highway - biased tyres on 17 - inch alloy wheels.

BMW says the G30 M5 is more a 2WD +2 than a 4WD car — it's still very much rear - biased, but in theory should be less scary in the rain or on frosty winter mornings.

And given that you misused the term in your second post (if we use the mean on a bell curve then it means that half of the authors would sell more and half of the authors would sell less -LCB- unless we assume bias -RCB-, not «most would sell more» as you asserted), then you probably shouldn't pound too much on your authority in the topic.

They haven't been defending a point of view on the idea, so the idea will be investigated with less bias.

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.

Had they looked further — and to a less biased source — they might have been able to get a better handle on the degree of outdoor access.

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

Your whole line of commentary is a whole lot of heavily biased speculation on games that aren't even available for us to review much less actually * PLAY *.

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.