Sentences with phrase «often more biased»

This was my first encounter with what I now like to call the «smart idiots» effect: The fact that politically sophisticated or knowledgeable people are often more biased, and less persuadable, than the ignorant.

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It's time for any organization with more than a perfunctory interest in gender parity to acknowledge the biases — often unconscious — that might be keeping qualified women from positions that ultimately go to men.

Clever marketers often use distinction bias to trick us into paying more for things we don't actually need and won't make us any happier!

Pao says she sees salary negotiations as inherently perpetuating that gender bias, given that women are often too intimidated to ask for more.

Research published in September 2011 by the Level Playing Field Institute (LPFI) revealed that hidden biases within the I.T. workplace caused women and blacks to have negative workplace experiences far more often than their male and white counterparts.

More often than not, appeals to «biblical womanhood»... or «biblical» anything for that matter... represent an oversimplification, a reductive approach to biblical interpretation that fails to at least acknowledge its own hermeneutical biases.

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).

For example, in its November 1982 feature on «Living Longer, Living Better, Newsweek notes that «the wisdom of the elders is more often honored than consulted, and the patronizing compliments they are paid can betray a subtle bias.

I far too often see individuals stereotype and judge Christians due to their personal bias and uninformed understanding of the Bible way more than the reverse.

More specifically, it often implies an anti-Jewish bias on the part of Christians.

Moreover, samples are often unrepresentative of the population, introducing systemic biases by overweighting the preferences of certain demographics: Yair Lapid had always predicted that he would win more seats than he was forecast, because pollsters relied on calling people by landline, and his supporters, predominantly young, had only mobile phones.

Gangi points to bias in law enforcement, citing data that shows while stop - and - frisks or arrests for certain offenses may be down, racial disparities remain, with people of color stopped or arrested far more often than white people.

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.

But an analysis published in Science in 1975 showed that none of Berkeley's faculties were biased; women had much lower overall success rates because they applied more often at faculties that were harder to get into.

Articles from Europe and North America are more often biased towards issues of climate change mitigation, such as emission reductions, compared with articles from the southern hemisphere.

Another explanation is ascertainment bias, meaning that first - degree relatives and spouses are likely to seek medical advice or undergo celiac disease testing more often than the general population.

The cries against endurance training by the strength community have very often not been based on the facts; they're little more than personal bias... or literally, personal attacks against another person's philosophy just because it is different from theirs.

The bias cut is a prerequisite for dress sections which ruche, drape and flow in line with the body, whilst full circular skirts often witness the usage of over 5 metres of fabric, made all the more dramatic by Vyn John's fully stiffened customised petticoats.

The same bias that exists in America at large remains entrenched in both arthouse circles and mainstream Hollywood, more often than not blocking full recognition and appreciation black filmmakers, especially women.

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.

It is not whether bias caused educators to label black students as tardy more often, but whether it is educationally sound and justifiable to suspend children for tardiness.

Some improvements can be seen in the use of writing samples (though these are often themselves narrow) and constructed - response items (though their use remains too limited), and in more attention to bias reduction.

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.

More specifically, the district and its teachers are not coming to an agreement about how they should be evaluated, rightfully because teachers understand better than most (even some VAM researchers) that these models are grossly imperfect, largely biased by the types of students non-randomly assigned to their classrooms and schools, highly unstable (i.e., grossly fluctuating from one year to the next when they should remain more or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the lMore specifically, the district and its teachers are not coming to an agreement about how they should be evaluated, rightfully because teachers understand better than most (even some VAM researchers) that these models are grossly imperfect, largely biased by the types of students non-randomly assigned to their classrooms and schools, highly unstable (i.e., grossly fluctuating from one year to the next when they should remain more or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the lmore or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the like.

A front - wheel biased setup, it's relatively lightweight and can split power front to rear 50:50 — more often, power will be sent up front for efficient cruising.

With SI - Drive in sport sharp mode and the center differential set to Auto - for a torque bias to the rear more often the STI feels neutral around the track with high - grip limits.

Perhaps there's some bias on my part as the editor of an indie comics blog, but I would argue that, more often than not, that's where true innovation in this industry tends to originate, amongst the artists who are not constrained by the wants, desires, and politics of large corporations.

Growth strategies often come with biases towards specific sectors, and may outperform more broadly - based indexes in certain economic environments.

Then there's also the more unsavoury aspect, personal greed: Incentives and compensation, particularly in the US, are so lucrative and so biased to raising the EPS and share price at all costs that share buybacks become, consciously or unconsciously, a compelling priority for boards / senior management — often to the detriment of shareholders, EVA and / or even the dividend.

Value strategies are especially sensitive to survivorship bias because value companies become delisted more often than growth companies.

If we look at the US, these people were often the same folks who got crucified on company stock in their 401Ks... Mainstream & general finance media need to be a lot more aware of home bias, and take responsibility for informing their readership about it, and its pros & cons.

To me, home bias is a more unique / significant risk, with some (perhaps small) probability of catastrophe (which unfortunately is often amplified in the rest of your life / finances in the worst case scenario), and something I want to avoid.

Dog breeders, and owners more generally, often are too biased.

The possibility that individuals evaluate the characteristics of cultural variants is also acknowledged (called «direct bias» or «content bias»), but it has been studied less because, unless one knows how variants are evaluated, the only conclusion that can be drawn is, trivially, that preferred variants will be chosen more often than non-prefereed ones [21].

While hiring managers can often be biased based on their own experiences — like whether someone has a degree or not — our hiring process tends to be more open - minded and we look at the whole picture.

Those who do prank in the name of art also often have a more serious message — witness the Guerrilla Girls» campaign to draw attention to institutional gender biases in museums and galleries.

I compare notes, further ruminate on the show, and more often than not discern the reviewers» and my own biases of judgment.

The differences from the expected profile are all towards cooling — and this leads to even more cooling in the stratosphere than the models predict as well as cooling in the troposphere (the bias most often remarked upon).

So, NOAA's computer program introduces urbanization bias into the rural records more often than it removes it from the urban records.

These people often became even more strongly set in their biased beliefs.

More often my posts focus on potential biases in the analysis of other posters — but that description would probably apply to the vast majority of other posts at Climate Etc. as well.

Today is the day when EPA unveils its regulations intended to solve a minor or more likely non-existent problem by placing restrictive government regulations intended to bias the electric supply business away from seeking the lowest cost source of energy (often coal) at the expense of all American ratepayers, but particularly lower and middle income Americans.

Though reliable authorities are correct in judgments related to their area of expertise more often than laypersons, they can still come to the wrong judgments through error, bias or dishonesty.

As a co-founder of my own green company, I realize I'm biased, but founding entrepreneurs bring something to their enterprise that can not be replaced — their vision and passion help get the business off the ground and often envision the long - term in a way that most employees rarely do.I've known more than a few beverage entrepreneurs who were ungraciously asked to leave earlier than they would have liked.

How does one account uncertainty in past adjustments when these are absolute changes of bias, often little more than a guess, and not statistical ranges amenable to precision - style statistics?

More often, gaps and weaknesses in either the initial premise or its execution — the two sides are not equally well - represented or well - financed, the trier of fact is mistaken or biased, etc. — preordain that the result will fall short of our hopes.

Dr. Kahneman describes System 1 as «gullible and biased to believe,» while System 2 is more discerning and doubtful but is «sometimes busy and often lazy.»

The lack of a vigorous judicial response to conservative versions of originalism and «strict construction» — which often means little more than a cramped reading of broadly worded statutes and constitutional provisions — will bias popular discussion and debate.

If their cases disappear, they may bias their actions and influence the jury to favor the plaintiff more often.

At Giffen Koerth, materials engineer Okrutny is particularly interested in the more subtle, and often unintentional, biases that experts — like all people — bring to their work.