Sentences with phrase «more biased reporting»

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While women typically face gender - discrimination or bias in traditional sources of funding like venture capital or banking, crowdfunding «enables and empowers far more female decision - makers — as project backers and «micro-VCs» — than within traditional finance,» the report argues.

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.

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Although I'm not convinced that reporting on the incident reflects a liberal bias as much as the more practical «if it bleeds it leads» bias, it is clear that much of the rhetoric among left - wing personalities like Keith Olberman has been infused with unfair generalities.

In the intervening years, the Sikh Coalition, a New York - based advocacy group, reported more than 700 attacks or bias - related incidents.

Most reporting that is more than a paragraph or two is biased.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

If some infants had sleep positions that were more variable than reported at 1, 3, and 6 months, our estimates of association could be biased toward the null.

But some complained that the draft report was riddled with errors and had an industry bias because it was prepared by Sciences International (SI), a private consulting firm with close ties to the chemical industry, and has been funded by more than 50 industrial companies.

There was no strong evidence of reporting bias, though this is difficult to detect with the number of studies in this review, and whether it exists and the extent to which it affects the results may be clarified when more studies have been conducted.

If it was a parents self report I think that would be more likely to be bias.

Where there were 10 or more studies in the meta - analysis, we investigated reporting biases (such as publication bias) using funnel plots.

high risk of bias (where not all the study's prespecified outcomes have been reported; one or more reported primary outcomes were not prespecified; outcomes of interest are reported incompletely and so can not be used; study fails to include results of a key outcome that would have been expected to have been reported);

There is therefore no strong evidence of reporting bias, though this is difficult to detect with the number of studies in this review, and whether it exists and the extent to which it affects the results may be clarified when more studies have been conducted.

Her comments follow a warning from Tory party chairman Grant Shapps, whose more brazen criticisms of the BBC focused on its allegedly biased left - wing reporting.

Researchers who conduct animal studies often don't use simple safeguards against biases that have become standard in human clinical trials — or at least they don't report doing so in their scientific papers, making it impossible for readers to ascertain the quality of the work, an analysis of more than 2500 journal articles shows.

Such pressure, in turn, encourages researchers to engage in «a host of biased practices [including] reinventing history to «predict» results that were, in fact, unexpected, or selectively reporting analyses that allow more publishable narratives,» continued Chambers, who is the editor in charge of handling Registered Reports at Royal Society Open Science, an online - only journal which covers all fields of science, engineering, and math.

The authors do acknowledge some limitations in their paper, specifically that it relied on self - reporting, and that a selection bias may have been caused by pregnant couples being more willing to respond than disappointed couples.

The philosophy behind Registered Reports is that the new format will help improve research transparency and reproducibility by reducing publication bias — journals» favoring of certain types of results — and, consequently, the questionable research practices that some scientists adopt to make their results more likely to be published.

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).

The researchers also note, as the data is drawn from web surveys, there will be biases inherent in the respondents — the ones who chose to respond may be more experienced in the drug culture, and as such may not be representative of the wider population, so it is important not to interpret the findings reported as prevalence estimates.

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).

The opportunity, the report stated, is in training effective mentors and creating a culture of inclusiveness by providing faculty opportunities to become more aware of implicit bias, stereotyping, and ways to avoid either.

If the hierarchy hypothesis is correct, then researchers in «softer» sciences should have fewer constraints to their conscious and unconscious biases, and therefore report more positive outcomes.

From research and reports in the blogosphere there appears to be a gender bias with men experiencing more benefit and fewer side effects than women.

Observational studies have a high risk of bias owing to problems such as self - selection of interventions (people who believe in the benefits of meditation or who have prior experience with meditation are more likely to enroll in a meditation program and report that they benefited from one) and use of outcome measures that can be easily biased by participants» beliefs in the benefits of meditation.

It goes through in detail various potential sources of error and bias (e.g. manner and timing of reporting of weight, mammography, high risk vs average population, cancer subtypes, hormone therapies, etc) that may be confounding results, and relates results of previous studies to those of a more recent study which attempted to correct for some of these errors.

It even provoked Tinder to unleash a tweet rampage (more than 30 tweets) against the writer for what the company perceived as biased reporting.

As stated earlier we provide only the best reviews for Rich Men Dating & Rich Women Dating sites which are personally used for more than 1 month by our team and we try to report all the facts without any bias.

Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, found a «disturbing» trend that includes not only more outright advertising in schools but also an increase in company - sponsored curriculum materials that often include biased or misleading information.

The NRC report suggests several possible reasons, including a lack of knowledge about such opportunities among teachers and administrators; a bias among principals for more traditional methods; and institutional resistance from district professional development staff who might see their own jobs disappear if teachers bypass their programs and engage in training created from afar.

We've reported on instances of implicit bias by white teachers, even toward preschool students, that black students are more often recommended for gifted programs by teachers of color and that students of all races prefer teachers of color.

In response to the need for a measurement of risk that was non biased and separate from the bank, in 1950's FICO (then called Fair Isaac and Company), developed the first credit score but it took over 20 more years to create a successful credit scoring model using data from the three major Credit Reporting Agencies (CRA).

And that means that bites from this type of dog are more likely to be reported than bites from smaller, less powerful dogs leading to a news reporting bias.

This type of reporting is biased because while certain breeds of dog may be more prone to causing large amounts of damage or death with a single biting incidence, other breeds of dog can be more susceptible to non-fatal biting.

As the mainstream media in the West grows more parochial and biased by the day, these oblique reports from the world's hidden corners should be cherished.

At the time, we reported that this would certainly be taken into account in revisions of data set as more data was processed and better classifications of the various observational biases occurred.

Even when Douglass et al was written, those authors were aware that there were serious biases in the radiosonde data (they had been reported in Sherwood et al, 2005 and elsewhere), and that there were multiple attempts to objectively address the problems and to come up with more homogeneous analyses.

In the third paper this week, Sherwood et al report on an apparent bias in the daytime readings of these radiosondes which, again, appears to have suppressed the trends in the data sets (Steve discusses this more fully in an accompanying piece).

Respectfully, I suggest that relying on second - hand reports of Lindzen's opinion on an unrelated topic in order to discount his entire AGW position on zero says a lot more about your bias than it does Lindzen's.

Even then, to be able to report that the hiatus / pause was a possible «artifact» (that is, spurious result) of data biases, Karl et al., had to apply a 0.10 significance level, rather than the more stringent 0.05 test.

More important is that the report itself is a totally biased, cherry picked misrepresentation of the full body of climate sensitivity research.

But this report (and others) make this look more like fraud that simple bias.

Kelvin Kemm — The Moral Liberal — August 28, 2012 Wind and solar power + soaring electricity prices = outsourced jobs + more coal burning Meanwhile, eco activists demand «sustainable lifestyles» — for other people By Kelvin Kemm It is amazing how biased the international media is when it comes to reporting on energy generation, -LSB-...]

Doing so suggests that you think accusations of media bias are acceptable so long as the accusers bias their reporting of the actual numbers by no more than 50 %.

The Report calls for more training in unconscious bias and diversity sensitivity training.

Does anyone know of any specific bias in the QuickLaw database, e.g. they report more or fewer cases from certain parts of the province?

While the above - mentioned obstacles are all certainly contributing factors in SMEs» difficult recruitment processes, the Hays / ISME report indicates that there is more at play here, from a perceived media bias to a lack of self - confidence.

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However, children's media environments are constantly changing, and limitations of this study include its lack of measures of background TV or mobile media, both highly prevalent in children's lives, 18,34 and reliance on parental report, which is subject to more bias than use of a media diary.