Sentences with phrase «more biased toward»

Dr. Laine says she doesn't think this affected the results, but Dr. Hellman points out that a researcher who is more biased toward a specific diet may have a «higher threshold» of when to give medication.

The company also said it has more bias toward share buybacks than special dividends.

Not exact matches

Our tester was equipped with all - wheel - drive, and while it was fine for whatever we threw at it in the suburbs and the big city, the proclivity toward a rear - wheel bias means that the Stelvio is more for the «sport» part of SUV than the «utility» part.

Stumpf also said if there was a bias, it'd be that the fake accounts skewed more toward young people.

Looking at biases that play into hiring and promotions and putting more women into senior roles, are vital steps toward resolving the problem in the long term.

The private listing data in San Francisco is not as obviously skewed as some of the other cities we analyzed, but the maps above still show a bias toward zip codes in and around the more costly downtown area of the city.

Its portfolio includes more than 160 funds, with a strong bias toward investment in Africa.

Yep — this is just more proof of the concerted lopsided media bias toward the Church by the liberal lefties embedded in the Media of today.

I read it with a bias toward David being a nice guy... so I assumed that he was pointing out that @ $ $ holes come in many flavors and being atheist or Christian doesn't make you any more or less prone to it... some people are just pricks.

In other words because FOX has been so successful at caterring to a particular political ideology by chosing bias stories and presenting stories more geared toward a certain group «we're going to do it too».

Poverty researchers are seldom guilty of overt political bias, though most of them are liberals who would like a more generous policy toward the poor.

Its imagistic character means it stands as a corrective to the bias of much constructive theology toward conceptual clarity, often at the price of imagistic richness.11 Although it would be insufficient to rest in new images and to refuse to spell out conceptually their implications in as comprehensive a way as possible, the more critical task is to propose what Dennis Nineham calls a «lively imaginative picture» of the way God and the world as we know it are related (Nineham, 201 - 2).

While the Walliyulla school gravitated more and more toward religious conservatism in sharp contrast to its original stand — largely because of its anti-Western bias — and soon became merged in the general Muslim conservatism, a pro-Western group of Muslims was taking shape under the leadership of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan.

Survey results can be skewed toward any number of biases, but they can also... More

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.

Milk sample categorization by day postpartum without consideration for lactation stage will bias the data captured toward study participants who have progressed further toward mature milk production as these milk samples will be more likely to produce fat globules with suitable mRNA quality.

But, political campaigns have generally lagged behind the commercial advertising world in the percentage of money spent online, and removing consultants» bias toward TV ads should help bring more balance to the system.

This relationship stability might be caused by the bias of women on the pill toward low - testosterone men, who tend to be more faithful.

While many more women are now enrolled in higher education and technical programs in Canada than ever before, their enrolment is biased toward specific fields.

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.

«There's an increasingly favorable bias toward «nontraditional» medical school applicants: students who are more mature and have experience and achievement beyond their premed studies are generally a better bet to be successful in medical school and beyond,» Albert says.

Nor have they shown conclusively that the molecular bias matters — that the more biased a compound toward triggering the painkilling pathway, the less the risk of respiratory suppression.

A critical feature of the model, and one found in theories of perception more generally, is that it assumes the brain is biased toward inferring causes rather than registering coincidences.

He suggests that as a first step toward avoiding the induced bias, election officials might try to pick «more innocuous multipurpose rooms» in the polling place to reduce, for example, the religious stimuli in a church setting.

«Then you start biasing you motion toward that point much more.»

In contrast, smelling estra biased heterosexual males, but not females, toward perceiving the walkers as more feminine, says study leader and behavioral psychologist Wen Zhou.

Also they use a 5 × 5 ° grid for the oceans (or SSTs and Shakun et al 2011) and 2 × 2 ° grid for the land, and because of more data in the oceans, the global mean is probably too biased toward the ocean.

The lack of dietary carbs might enhance exercise - induced glycogen depletion, which itself would bias more post-workout calories toward glycogen synthesis / supercompensation.

Meanwhile, screening for gifted programs usually happens in kindergarten, which creates a heavy bias toward those who come from more affluent homes.

Since the questionnaire was distributed to voluntary organizations with members who possessed some motivation to join an educational technology professional organization, there may be some inherent bias toward more - motivated technology - using teachers.

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.

A day spent meandering through backroads conveys an overall impression biased toward purposefulness, not plushness, though the three - mode Bilstein dampers offer a noticeably more forgiving ride in their softer settings.

Despite the rear weight bias, the 4C shades more toward understeer than oversteer.

this is definitlly biased toward the less selling cars to improve sales forll them the fords were left out even though they out perform and out last with fewer problems than most manufacturers i do nt see them as out of the top ten they should be there the ford engines are more durable and have fewer problems then most

The Terrain's ride is biased more toward comfort than cornering.

The old car's open front diff also gets swapped in favor of a helical limited - slip, which shifts the power bias toward the wheel with more traction.

Turning the IDS to Sport + will bias the system toward more stiffness, though it still varies by road and driving condition.

During hard cornering, the LSD transmits more torque toward the outside wheel to bias more power to the tire with the most grip.

The interior design suggests it's biased more toward the luxury side of the scale, and most materials are high quality.

Because the X5 is substantially more expensive than competitors with similar capabilities, and its ride / handling balance is biased toward smooth - road handling, you may be happier with something softer - riding and more affordable.

Credit things like the quattro all - wheel - drive system, which retains a bias toward rear - wheel drive to give the Q7 a more performance - minded feel.

But Mazda biases engine performance toward maximizing torque at lower rpm, making it more like a diesel engine.

One is biased more toward a plush ride and a serene cabin environment, while the other is more performance focused.

Previous comments were more toward Apple and the reviewers obvious bias toward Apple.

Capitalization - based indices are inherently biased toward including more liquid, higher - priced growth stocks and stripping low - priced value stocks of their index certification.

Even among professionals, there is a bias toward more yield.

So, there is a natural bias toward having more sell programs than buy programs.

As if in reply to Buren, Fraser argues that artists, through their critiques of the limitations and biases of institutions, have been the driving force behind the museum's expanded purview, its progress (however insufficient) toward showing more women artists, artists of color, and gay artists, for example, and toward supporting works in all mediums.

The retrospective has only thirty - five paintings, biased toward a central halls of relatively later work, when naturally more is available to the market.

However, the observed changes seem to suggest that the answer may turn out to be biased more toward the low end of the range than hitherto thought.