Sentences with phrase «on issues of bias»

I consider that bodies such as the Committee and the Council would normally be considered to have the capacity to adjudicate on issues of bias raised at a hearing notwithstanding that an extant legislative regime may not expressly grant such jurisdiction.

So on the issue of bias I would say we have a standoff reflecting the theological range of the committee.

Not exact matches

In every issue of The Wagner Daily swing trade newsletter, we provide an easy way for subscribers to quickly determine our current overall market bias, based on the objective rules of our system for market timing (click here for an overview of how the timing system works).

Marlene Williamson, CEO of Watermark, a Silicon Valley organization dedicated to women in leadership, said not only will Kalanick's resignation help Uber get back on track — his departure will have ramifications for other Bay Area tech companies struggling with their own issues of gender bias and sexual harassment.

He has been wrong on many of the issues on which he has opined, not least his speech on home bias and his pleadings for U.S. homeowners to refinance their mortgages and use home equity as a piggy bank.

Summary, those who pride themselves on their openness and diversity typically are blind to their own narrow - mindedness, bigoted bias, and lack of willingness to consider true diversity — respect of people who differ from your opinion, particularly on controversial issues.

My only issue is that sometimes he gets a little too aggressive which I think detracts from some of the points he tries to make because it's dripping with so much bias it's hard not to disagree on principle.

Were religious people promoting peace when they voted down gay marriage (a civil rights issue, opponents of which will be viewed in the same light as the opponents against civil rights in the 50s and 60s) You are just so comfortable in the majority, you can't see the prejudice and bias you put on people that aren't like you.

Clearly my bias is showing, and there's obviously a lot more nuance to both partiest, the main issue though is that parties can be hijacked and have been on both sides which leaves the large majority of moderates voting for the lesser of two evils and hoping that the candidate that they vote for will drop the pandering they did to the fringe and go moderate.

I said: «Maybe that is the issue for some Christians — that for some of them, their faith in Christ is not dependent on the moral biases of men who lived thousands of years ago allegedly represented in the Bible.»

Maybe that is the issue for some Christians — that for some of them, their faith in Christ is not dependent on the moral biases of men who lived thousands of years ago allegedly represented in the Bible.

Topics are focused on the unique issues and opportunities facing women working in the alcohol beverage industry, including why gender diversity is good for business, mentoring to empower the next generation of leaders, understanding unconscious bias, thriving in the male - dominated alcohol beverage industry, and others.

Where I disagree with though is on this issue of «Arsenal bias» — I actually think there is an endemic bias against Wenger amongst Gooners, not for him.

It got so bad that I had to intervene with a personal statement on the issue after I was accused of being a biased AKB by one of my readers.

A lengthy, well - researched, and powerful article in the Spring 2015 issue of the NCAA's Champion magazine, not only reports the belief of many top concussion experts that the media narrative about sports - related concussion trace has been dominated by media reports on the work of Dr. Ann McKee, which was the centerpiece of PBS Frontline's League of Denial, but Dr. McKee's, however belated, mea culpa that «There's no question [that her autopsies finding evidence of CTE in the brains of most of the former athletes were] a very biased study,» that they involved «a certain level of... sensationalism», that there were «times when it's overblown» and went «a little too far.»

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.

A common issue is that nutritional studies are often plagued with a number of biases and are often poorly designed (small samples, cross-sectional, etc.) Still, it makes as much sense to use the 6 month marker for all babies for eating solids as it does expecting your child to walk right at 12 months, to speak at 15 months, and to eliminate on a potty at 24 months on the dot.

Where parties are organized on a programmatic basis, rather than around identity, it can be difficult to employ an issue - based approach while avoiding perceptions of bias.

Andrew Marr, the former political editor of the BBC, is on record arguing that the BBC has a liberal bias, but this is more in terms of social and cultural issues than political ones.

«The fact that women are capable of contributing to the nation's scientific and engineering enterprise but are impeded in doing so because of gender and racial / ethnic bias and outmoded «rules» governing academic success is deeply troubling and embarrassing,» wrote the authors of a 2007 report on women in academic science and engineering issued by the National Academies [7].

In a statement issued on 12 October, the U.S. Department of State cited three reasons for its decision: UNESCO has an «anti-Israel bias,» needs «fundamental reform,» and the United States has a mounting financial debt to the organization that, under U.S. law, it can not pay.

AAAS, too, has repeatedly addressed this issue, including at symposia on the exploration of the early underpinnings of gender bias in the scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematical fields for elementary age girls, and on new ways to expand the numbers of underrepresented groups in those fields — both held at its 2016 Annual Meeting in February.

As Politico's Caitlin Emma notes, the Obama administration has already acted on such data, teaming up with the Department of Justice to issue guidance to deter schools from bias in how they administer school discipline.

Now, implicit bias is a much larger societal issue, and there are many organizations working within school systems to help educators to recognize and mitigate the impact of decisions based on our unconscious attitudes and stereotypes.

In addition to examining various types of bias, including those based on race / ethnicity, religion, body size, and ability, this report provides a focused look at LGBTQ issues in secondary schools.

Through engaging, interactive exercises, participants will: - Create a common understanding of diversity and inclusion - Link diversity issues with achieving district goals - Broaden the scope of diversity beyond race and gender issues - Reveal and assess the impact of subtle biases on district success - Discuss the behaviors required to create an inclusive environment where every man, woman and child feels included, valued and respected.

The authors examine the literature on potential sources of disproportionate identification rates — including test bias, poverty, special education processes, inequity in general education, issues of behavior management, and cultural sensitivity — and conclude that no single simple explanation exists.

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

She used R (i.e., a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics) to simulate correlation scatterplots (see Figures below) to illustrate three unique situations: (1) a simulation where there are two indicators (e.g., teacher value - added and observational estimates plotted on the x and y axes) that have a correlation of r = 0.28 (the highest correlation coefficient at issue in the aforementioned post); (2) a simulation exploring the impact of negative bias and a moderate correlation on a group of teachers; and (3) another simulation with two indicators that have a non-linear relationship possibly induced or caused by bias.

AEI's Rick Hess and Brendan Bell recently slammed mainstream media outlets for biased coverage of the Higher Education Act provisions in the recent tax bill: «If professional journalists can't manage to [cover serious policy debates] when it comes to education, it's hard to imagine how they can do it on the most important and polarizing issues of the day.»

The Department of Transportation is issuing a third «Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections» final rule to enhance protections for air travelers and to improve the air travel environment as follows: expanding the pool of reporting carriers for service quality data; requiring reporting carriers to include service quality data for their domestic scheduled flights operated by their code - share partners; enhancing the Department's code - share disclosure regulation to codify the statutory requirement that carriers and ticket agents must disclose any code - share arrangements on their websites on the first display presented in response to a search of a requested itinerary for each itinerary involving a code - share operation; and prohibiting undisclosed biasing based on carrier identity by carriers and ticket agents in any electronic displays of the fare, schedule or availability information of multiple carriers.

Having started with the Boys» Reading Commission report from the National Literary Trust for 2012, Emmett cites the commission's determination that boys may have trouble finding material that interests them and, on Page 22, a note reading: «Some teachers and librarians asserted that it is a supply issue and linked it to the female bias of the publishing industry.»

In our preparatory Issue on the Ether: Lists of Books... and Biases?

I hope that I have helped some people on here, I realize that alot of people are stubborn and won't pay attention to anyone telling them that THEY are wrong and others only listen to biased media that create bad news stories to sell but, hopefully someone gets better understanding of the issue!

This media bias started in 1987 when an issue of «Sports Illustrated» featured a photo of a snarling pit bull terrier on the cover and an article inside made a case against them.

A recent, scathing (and, in this writers» opinion, biased) BBC documentary on purebred dogs used individual animals with significant health issues to imply that all dogs of those breeds had horrible health issues and, by extension, all other purebreds as well.

There is a lot of evidence for all the arguments, but about half can be interpreted as bias or ignorance on gender issues depending on who is delivering it.

Galerie Lelong (New York) will concentrate on both historic and recent work by four artists — Alfredo Jaar, Nalini Malani, Hélio Oiticica, and Nancy Spero — looking at issues including media bias and misperception and the experiences of refugees.

PRINT PUBLICATIONS, FEATURED, AND COMMISSIONED WORK 2017 Still Magazine, Issue 5, July 2017 frieze Magazine, Issue 187, May 2017 Apartamento Magazine, Issue 19, April 2016 Buffalo Zine, Issue 4, October 2016 Bedstuy Gates, Flamingo Publications, September 2016 Unseen Magazine, Issue 3, September 2016 Apartamento Magazine, Issue 17, May 2015 The Case of the Missing Jewels, New York Times, September 2015 Time Travel, Issue 7, Conveyor Magazine, September 2015 Beach Sessions, September 2015 Shift 10, International Center of Photography 2015 BIAS Journal of Dress Practice, Issue 3 2014 Interleaves II, Oranbeg Press 2014 From Here On, Ai nt Bad Editions, March 2014 Before After, by Michael Kugler and Daniel Terna, Self - Published 2014 Yearbook, Self - Published 2014 Climbing Things, Self - Published 2014 Pictures Not Used, Artist Book 2014 AM SCHMIDT: Fierce (Untitled), Foreword by Daniel Terna 2014 My First Wife Stella, Block Magazine, Issue 1 2013 My First Wife Stella, Big Big Wednesday, Issue 1 2012 Open to Interpretation: Intimate Landscapes 2012 Help Yourself to Feel at Home, Self - Published 2009 I'll See You on the Beach, Self - PublishOn, Ai nt Bad Editions, March 2014 Before After, by Michael Kugler and Daniel Terna, Self - Published 2014 Yearbook, Self - Published 2014 Climbing Things, Self - Published 2014 Pictures Not Used, Artist Book 2014 AM SCHMIDT: Fierce (Untitled), Foreword by Daniel Terna 2014 My First Wife Stella, Block Magazine, Issue 1 2013 My First Wife Stella, Big Big Wednesday, Issue 1 2012 Open to Interpretation: Intimate Landscapes 2012 Help Yourself to Feel at Home, Self - Published 2009 I'll See You on the Beach, Self - Publishon the Beach, Self - Published

The fact is, there's plenty of bias in the media on this issue, and very little evidence to support the contention that the bias is slanted towards environmentalism.

These guys came in with a set of assumptions on every single issue, biased toward their friends, political allies, and campaign financiers (and not to mention their former colleagues and family members and themselves) in the fossil fuel businesses — and every single thing they have done has advanced the wealth of those people, in those industries.

In essence, the paper, On the Reliability of the U.S. Surface Temperature Record (pdf), concludes that the instrument issues, as long acknowledged, are real, but the poor stations tend to have a slight cool bias, not a warm one.

Half of your paper using an incorrect expectation (based on the McKitricks» inadvertently mistaken calculation) and the other half doesn't address the issue at all (since no real physical process in the PBL can cause a bias in the surface temperature records).

This goes to what I describe in Chapter 4 as the policy - dependent nature of wider public perceptions as well as our own ideological biases as a community of people actively working to create social change on the issue.

Whether the issue is tracking Arctic methane or American stream flows, there's a vital need for sustained, consistent observations, but — unfortunately — there's a two - edged bias against such investments, given the appeal of focusing on science's frontiers and the tendency to target monitoring programs — which are akin to bridge maintenance — when looking to cut budgets.

These other factors include the economy, confusion over colder weather and other perceptual biases, general distrust of government, climate policies such as cap and trade that are not easily sold as effective or in line with public values, the absence of White House leadership on the issue, institutional barriers in Congress and at the international level, and the continued communication and policy missteps of some scientists and environmental advocates.

They are broadening their horizons into climate issues arguably in a useful way by surfing RC, which posts on hockey stick issues probably less than 10 % of the time (so any RC hockey bias is arguably not having much of an influence on these students).

In their quest for real science the pair admit they learned «tough lessons about politics, bias and the challenges of doing good science» on this similarly polemicized issue.

These issues, which are either not recognized at all in the assessments or are understated, include: - the identification of a warm bias in nighttime minimum temperatures - poor siting of the instrumentation to measure temperatures - the influence of trends in surface air water vapor content on temperature trends - the quantification of uncertainties in the homogenization of surface temperature data, and the influence of land use / land cover change on surface temperature trends.

I recommend that the Trump Administration issue the Draft Report with an added section explaining how useless and biased the rest of the Draft Report is because it primarily relies on meaningless model results and unreliable surface temperature data.