Sentences with phrase «n't skewed the data»

A proper analysis would make sure that these sorts of things hadn't skewed the data.»

Not exact matches

The Internet isn't diverse enough to be a valid testing ground, they argue, so data gathered online is bound to be skewed.

You will have to share data; try to skew it toward information that will grow stale quickly, because if things don't work out, your suitor may go back to being a competitor.

In a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts it).

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.

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

However, that may be skewed by how the Census collects its data: From the «origin of movement,» which isn't always the same as the place where something was produced.

The CPI is often referred to as headline inflation because it doesn't remove any items from its index that could skew its data.

Looking back through history, whenever value stocks have gotten this cheap, subsequent long - term returns have generally been strong.3 From current depressed valuation levels, value stocks have in the past, on average, doubled over the next five years.4 Not that we necessarily expect returns of this magnitude this time around, but based on the data and our six decades of experience investing through various market cycles, we believe the current risk / reward proposition is heavily skewed in favor of long - term value investors.

The results for the few food group intakes that were dichotomized before the heritability analysis, such as for infant formula milk and fruit juice, should not be overinterpreted because there are several indications that they might be an artifact: small numbers of pairs with at least one consumer for formula milk (15 %) and other beverages (13 %) made their distributions extremely positively skewed, and the reduced variation in the data due to dichotomizing these variables compromises power and accuracy of the parameters, therefore limiting interpretation.

Players who pitch really badly their first year back might not get a second year, so wouldn't the data get more skewed towards good results as you get farther from the surgery and pitchers who aren't good enough to stick in the MLB drop out of the dataset?

Rothman said the data suggesting home births result in more infant deaths are skewed by the inclusion of babies that were born at home accidentally - such as when a woman goes into labor prematurely or didn't know she was pregnant.

A possible problem with this approach (not sure if this data compensates for that) is that political contributions might get very skewed by a few extra rich CEOs (and many software CEOs are liberal, so if that's the case they could easily dominate the data).

The Post article's not one - sided; it also follows a Republican canvassing operation in the DC suburbs and quotes a Republican skeptical of the Democrats» data operation (though he's also skeptical of the current McAuliffe - leaning polls... shades of Romney's «skewed poll» self - delusion?).

Republican county legislators and political candidates pushed Thursday for suspension of Suffolk County's red light camera program, saying safety data is skewed because it doesn't include pedestrian and bicycle accidents.

(*) NB — Panelbase / SNP question was asked after other questions that could have had a potential skewing affect (**) NB — Ashcroft polls are carried out by different companies, so should not be taken as a single data trend.

I suspect there is a big skew in this data as well, with a few people studying a lot and most people not studying at all.

Jago suggests that patriotism and love of country may contribute to skewed interpretation of data and that cultural differences should not be exaggerated, inflated or overemphasized as a result.

Specifically, the data may be skewed as a result of predominantly attracting respondents with personal experiences of mental health issues, and they don't investigate the causality between perception of a nonsupportive academic environment and mental health.

He warns not only about gaps in data, but also about biases — such as where researchers choose to sample, which can skew a data set towards or away from certain regions or types of environment.

The trick is teasing out from the data which of those planets are far enough from their parent star to be in the habitable zone, and whether there are others not showing in the data that could skew the results.

Dr. Mercola is not a very trustworthy doctor and he tends to skew the actual data in the study or ignore other studies that show what he is saying is clearly wrong.

We were basing previous warnings on some outdated / skewed info, and once we brushed up more on the science / data we found that there doesn't appear to be any significant difference between synthetic retinyl palmitate and the palmitate found in animal foods.

Since the algorithms tend to be proprietary — they don't share them — we don't know whether this is skewing the data.

According to the NAHT, these issues may skew the distribution of marks in a way that simply setting a lower threshold may not solve, causing them to believe that the data should not be published externally.

«I haven't seen anything that suggests that we're at a point in the opt out movement where we're skewing the data.

The participation rate is even higher in urban districts where 65 percent of the largest 100 districts participate, covering 40 percent of all urban high school graduates.The National Student Clearinghouse didn't reveal which districts are or are not participating and so it is unclear how the missing high schools might be skewing the data.

Data has become a loaded term in our high - stakes and test - driven world, but don't let the buzzwords skew the value of good information.

«This report compiles skewed and incomplete data that, in the authors» own words, is largely based on «assumptions» and «suggestions,» and it neglects to take into consideration important factors, such as parental choice, the similarity of student populations between inner city charters and inner city traditional schools, and that charter schools intentionally locate in neighborhoods with the greatest need, a fact that we would hope champions of civil rights would celebrate, not condemn.

If misalignment is noticed, it is not to be the fault of either measure (e.g., in terms of measurement error), it is to be the fault of the principal who is critiqued for inaccuracy, and therefore (inversely) incentivized to skew their observational data (the only data over which the supervisor has control) to artificially match VAM - based output.

But we're not running our usual 600 - foot slalom because the multiple runs required to get good data create deep ruts in the snow that skew the results.

I don't know how many others do this so I don't know if I am skewing their data at all, but it is still a bad assumption.

What's fishy is how they skewed their own numbers so they could have that headline that doesn't actually fit the pertinent data.

If Amazon uses Select titles in developing rankings, that would place another skew in the data, since those are technically not sales.

So excellent to see actual data, hard numbers, not skewed by anyone.

It hasn't been sufficiently stressed in this report that the data encompasses the Christmas sales and earnings: so, that's a response to the people who thought the data of the other reports was skewed because it didn't encompass this strategical period.

One key point I noted in reading Data Guy's original report is that the KU results are skewed, as you mentioned, by the non-KU Authors other sales sites earnings not being reported.

Coming back to GNP, since even «national» corporate profits are not completely apples - to - apples (the issues mentioned above still apply), I wonder if using these data might actually skew the profit levels upwards since they would capture corporate activity abroad but very little non-corporate activity.

Something to keep in mind when reviewing this chart and other survey data is that surveys of this kind can not sample a random selection of individuals; data will tend to be skewed to some degree.

As noted in the post, there may well not be enough data to be significant, but when these are not shown in a little table, people sometimes make comments about whether or not a curve is skewed or tails weighted more heavily or not.

a) atmospheric CO2 from human activity is a major bause of observed warming in the 1980's and 1990's, c) that warming is overstated due to a number of factors including solar effects and measurement skew d) the data going back 150 years is of little reliability because it is clustered so heavily in northeast america and western europe rather than being global e) the global climate has been significantly shifting over the last thousand years, over the last ten thousand years, and over the last hundred thousand years; atmospheric CO2 levels did not drive those changes, and some of them were rapid.

Greater minds than mine will dissect but my two - penneths - worth; it is quite a big drop but this year's trend (that «nice sinusoidal» I have been having my nose rubbed in since I first realised that AGW was political not scientific) was skewed in April already (for Mauna Loa) Globally this» The last year of data are still preliminary, pending recalibrations of reference gases and other quality control checks.»

The urban heat island effect is skewing modern weather data, so the warming observed in recent decades isn't real.

I'm still skeptical of the accuracy of the land temperature records, but don't believe anyone is purposefully skewing the data to warm.

Anyone who uses a small fraction of their data to skew the weight of their entire «study» isn't doing science, it is fraud.

Jim, why don't you believe anyone is purposely skewing the data to warm?

(I see the plots in the post by lgl at October 20, 2012 at 12:42 pm are good too; although I don't trust any temperature data by Mann directly, in that case it was not so skewed to mess up the overall picture).

Without those adjustments — which are necessary for almost all scientific data — the temperature wouldn't represent «reality,» but a skewed version of it.

I wonder if the data was skewed at the high end... maybe a weighted mean would be more accurate if they didn't already use one.

>> But I also think there are some people, not all of them, but some who if given an opportunity to do so would skew data in favor of their political beliefs.