Sentences with phrase «of public bias»

It looks like the Duke line is so high in the oddsmakers» eyes not because they are supremely confident in Duke, but rather they know Duke is a huge public favorite and they can take advantage of public bias.

This is likely another example of the oddsmakers inflating the line to take advantage of public bias toward the Spartans, similar to what they are doing with Duke.

As a result, fading the public is a sound strategy because you are taking advantage of public bias and putting yourself on the side of the books and casinos.

Not exact matches

This pronouncement, along with Johnson's (and executive chairman Howard Schultz's) apology, meetings with community leaders, and enlisting the guidance of civil rights leaders such as former Attorney General Eric Holder and the NAACP's Sherrilyn Ifill, ensures that this incident and the specter of racial bias will remain in the public's mind beyond a few days.

In my opinion, getting out of the endorsement game would help newspapers regain trust, fend off charges of bias and show respect for the public's decision - making abilities.

«There's been a lot of accusation lately in the public arena about how Pete's supposed biases may have affected outcome of the email investigation and predication for Russia investigation,» Montoya said.

«I do not want any perception of bias in this review,» she wrote, while adding that she would remain involved in crafting the recommendations and producing the final report for public distribution.

As Vox's Alex Ward pointed out, the situation has always been awkward for the president: If he released the Schiff memo, the public might have seen how Nunes left information out of his memo in order to insinuate that the FBI is biased against Trump.

In other words, notable public discontent away from coastal regions need to be factored into investors» macro outlook, and if significant number of individuals consider a $ 400 emergency expenditure «more challenging to handle,» then investors should be biased to position portfolios more defensively (i.e. in curve steepeners).

Black academic underperformance reflects racial bias in the provision of public education.

Of course, their articles also show the bias of the editors and the specific authors, and none of them have the resources to gather information comparable to the public mediOf course, their articles also show the bias of the editors and the specific authors, and none of them have the resources to gather information comparable to the public mediof the editors and the specific authors, and none of them have the resources to gather information comparable to the public mediof them have the resources to gather information comparable to the public media.

Its understandable distrust of the ideas and fantasies we are capable of constructing either out of the privacy of selfhood or out of group bias has led it to impugn all ideas that resist some sort of public or communal verification.

In our divorce courts, all now conducted in secrecy so that neither the media nor the general public are aware of what goes on, the Feminist bias is virtually complete.

Developers of public health guidelines have been adopting systematic review methods and more structured methods for grading recommendations; assessing bias in the reviews is a critical step in the process [7, 38, 39].

About SIP Awards: Catering to the opinions and palates of the consuming public, the Spirits International Prestige (SIP) Awards present a unique, spirit - judging competition, unaffected by industry bias.

In fact, we detail this bias in our 2011 - 12 Betting Against the Public article which shows that betting on teams who receive fewer than 30 % of spread wagers have won at 50.9 % over the past eight seasons — and that number jumps to 54.4 % when focusing solely at visitors.

Here, we highlight a bias of value on Visiting teams that the Public hates, something we have seen in the NHL as well.

The article highlights a bias of using SportsInsights» betting percentages to fade the public on large underdogs (16 points or more).

Below, we «carve» up the data further and see a potentially useful bias on «betting against the public» on «out - of - favor visiting teams.»

By fading the average Joe, we can capitalize on public bias, get inflated numbers, and place ourselves on the side of the books.

His final competition was lackluster, too: Collin Klein, who was the effective leader of an effective Kansas State team, lost his inside track at the Troy Smith Memorial Vote for being the public face of an undefeated title contender, and Manti Te'o had to overcome decades of bias against defenders... and tackle totals that dropped in his senior season as the defense around him made it easier for him to do his job and easier for Notre Dame to win.

Oddsmakers understand this bias and shade their lines to account for the inevitable influx of public money.

By going contrarian, we are able to capitalize on public bias and take advantage of artificially inflated numbers.

The increased attention leads to an increased number of bets — and an increase in public biases.

You'll get an extra 1 - 2 points just because of the public and media's negative perceptions and biases.

As always, public bettors are victims of recency bias.

«My bias has not changed, but in the interests of patients, I need to see past my own opinions and look at the whole picture of the appropriate blend of science, good practice, and the viewpoints of the general public that will inevitably steer their rehabilitation in a good or bad direction.»

The public's perception that a direct causal link exists between repetitive head contact and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is largely the result of one - sided, sensationalized, and biased reporting, argue four head injury researchers in a provocative editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

From social media to public service messages and an overwhelming societal bias in favor of breastfeeding, mothers hear the message loud and clear: breastfeed or bust.

The public bias and fear of FAS was a great motivator for me during pregnancy and later, while breastfeeding, to stay sober.

This one made me laugh (and I'm not biased in any way of course) and it will definitely offend some people... but honestly we are both so sick of the breastfeeding in public «HOOHA» that is going on, -LSB-...]

Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.

Yes, the government is biased for the good of public health because they don't want to spend unnecessary money.

We suggest that a financial relationship with FMMs has potential to create bias within the institution that threatens public trust in the College as an independent source of guidance upon infant and young child feeding.

«We are disappointed by the New York Times» biased approach in this article, which we believe does not accurately reflect the breadth and reality of our product portfolio in the context of the public health issues impacting the people of Brazil,» the spokesperson said.

The audience share of the news bulletins of public - service broadcasters is now lower because the public shifted to private broadcasters in search of less biased news.

Unfortunately, because of the deep biases of the people who TALK about politics in public, the nuts and bolts of winning an election or advocating for legislation are always going to be slighted in favor of the words we use to describe ourselves and our positions: the messaging dominates the discussion, at least on blogs and cable news.

As Michael Lesher, a prominent Orthodox critic of the shomrim puts it, «If the Nation of Islam were to set up a private force of Muslims, ostensibly to scour Harlem for «bias crimes,» would City Council members be heaping public money into its coffers?»

Since being elected party leader in 2005, David Cameron has proved himself relentlessly pro-female and anti-male in his public statements and policy directions, yet even he faces accusations of being biased against women because of the low number of women in his Cabinet.

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David Cameron wants the BBC charter reviewed every five years instead of ten, presenters» salaries will be made public, the BBC will be prevented from showing popular shows at popular hours, more moves will be taken to stamp out supposed «political bias», the BBC will be forced to put out all production contracts to competitive tender, effectively privatising it from within.

New York State must repeal existing marijuana laws as many other states have done, otherwise New Yorkers will still be subjected to biased enforcement and needless loss of access to student loans, subsidized housing and other public benefits, and, for non-citizens, the risk of detention and deportation.»

«The allegation of bias is a serious issue and it is capable of destroying public confidence in the judiciary.

John W. Bailey, Abelove's attorney, said their case focused on the fact that Cuomo, when he signed the executive order two years ago, stated that while he believed district attorneys would appropriately handle fatal police incidents, he wanted to alleviate «public concerns... that such incidents can not be prosecuted at the local level without conflict or bias, or the public perception of conflict or bias.»

The remarks followed claims by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's lawyers that he had made «improper statements» that will bias the public against Mr. Silver in his fight against corruption charges, and a Slate piece by Pace University Professor Bennett Gershman that Mr. Bharara's critiques of New York's state government are inappropriate for his role.

The state's Division of Human Rights has introduced a new hotline for members of the public to report incidents of bias and discrimination.

Also, GENDA supporters yesterday released a letter to the Senate leaders from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who noted that the New York City Human Rights Law was amended by Local Law 3 in 2002 to protect against bias in areas including public accommodations and no there was no «significant increase» in crime as a result of that change.

«The legitimacy of our judicial system depends upon the public being confident that we have a bench that is representative of our diverse population and applies the law without bias,» they wrote in the letter dated today.

«One or two biased members can't stop us,» the Director of Public Affairs at the Electoral Commission, Christian Owusu Parry, told Accra - based Joy FM.

«So, in this zone where we have a sitting chairman and he is not invited to a meeting, you have six ministers, you have former governors, you have very senior citizens of this zone and they were shut out of the meeting only for the national vice chairman to ambush everybody, ignore every motion that was moved, even when somebody moved a motion that he should disqualify himself having shown bias from the beginning in this meeting, he still sat there and he is saying to the public that there was a resolution.