Sentences with phrase «on public bias»

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

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

Not exact matches

On the other hand, bias is a particular problem at many free public seminars.

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.

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.

Betting against the public continues to show an impressive bias and edge — based on its contrarian approach — helping Sports Insights and its members in their sports handicapping.

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 combining these biases (home underdog and «betting against the public»), you can increase your winning percentage and «return on investment.»

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.

The sports betting research that SportsInsights.com performs for major US sports has uncovered biases that relate to betting against the public — and generally finds value on underdogs.

It is this «public bias» (betting on favorites) that we look to measure.

By understanding what drives public perception, we have been able to capitalize on the market inefficiencies created by recency bias and an overly reactionary betting public.

http://sportsinsights.com/sports-betting-articles/ncaa-football/bet-against-public/2010-11-season-review.aspx Betting against the public continues to show an impressive bias and edge — based on...

However, these academic sources lead to the same conclusions as SportsInsights.com's independent research: that there is a bias towards betting on underdogs and unders; and that «Betting Against the Public» can lead to value.

Again, it is based on the public's bias towards betting on the favorites.

In other words, the sportsbooks played on the public's general psychological bias towards betting on the «favorites» to bet even more money on supposed lopsided games.

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.

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.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, pending in committee in both the House and Senate, would bar job bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity in most public and private workforce situations.

Open Democracy article on the politics of advertising Open Democracy article — pre the phone - hacking scandal - addressing why we should be concerned about Sky Open Democracy article on securing a more plural, diverse media Guardian article on public opinion and the war in Iraq Guardian article on media bias and the war in Iraq

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.»

David Cameron «lectured a business audience in India» on the need to have 50 % of company directors as women while «just four of Cameron's 22 - strong Cabinet are women» while «as for the educational background of Cabinet ministers, God help any university which showed such a bias towards public school types.»

«Inference via virus sequences is less subject to biases than inference based on reported incidence data, particularly when public health systems collecting those data are overwhelmed,» Alizon said.

The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a «virtual laboratory» for collecting data on the Internet.

If you are like me and prefer your interfacing on the public side of the yoke, you need to either turn under the hem edge of the waistband facing, or you can bind the raw edge with narrow bias binding.

That the most biased of these scores have unwittingly been urged on the media as good - faith evidence of American public opinion?

But both of these also accurately reflect the way in which bodies of work and successful books can have a disproportionate impact on public discussion — so I'm disinclined to see any problems in such a «bias.»

Respect for All Bingo: Each year, New York City public schools participate in «Respect For All» Week to promote respect for diversity and engage students in meaningful lessons and / or other activities that focus on preventing bias - based harassment, intimidation and / or bullying.

Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT), along with the Center for Popular Democracy released From Failure to Freedom, a report that reveals that Milwaukee Public Schools» (MPS) reliance on punitive approaches to school discipline is ineffective, costly, and most troublingly, racially biased.

This result confirms my hypothesis and corroborates other literature indicating that after accounting for selection bias, on the whole choice schools do not outperform traditional public schools.

My hypotheses going in to this study is that when first looking at choice schools on student achievement I would see a positive effect because of selection bias; I expected that the students in choice schools would be systematically different from those in traditional public school due to parental factors that affected their selection of a choice program.

The true challenge, should Chetty take it on, would be to put his model up against the other VAMs mentioned above, using the same NYC school - level dataset, and prove to the public that his model is so «cutting - edge» that it does not suffer from the serious issues with reliability, validity, bias, etc. with which all other modelers are contending.

«We believe that corporate school reformers are once again turning to Hollywood to sell a version of school reform that many parents reject, as they did with «Waiting for Superman» and its biased attack on public school teachers and idealization of charter schools,» said Julie Woestehoff, PAA co-founder and executive director of Chicago's Parents United for Responsible Education.

Not trying to pick on US investors, but the average US Joe Public investor usually suffers from a pretty bad case of home bias.

Sound public policy that benefits all members of the community — people and animals alike — is not based on scare tactics and biased claims.

This severe bias has a devastating effect on public perception and takes a toll on public safety.

Based on a Columbia University conference organized by the National Arts Journalism Program, The New Gatekeepers explores the reconfigured ranks of those who decide what the public gets to see, hear and read, from struggles over intellectual property and copyright, to continuing debates about acceptable and offensive content in the cultural marketplace, to the less visible biases of the arts funding system.

CPV (Comment 16) expresses the concern that once a scientist takes a public stand on an issue, he or she is likely to succumb to various pressures that can undermine scientific objectivity, encourage confirmation bias, etc..

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.

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.

When scientists and advocates, motivated by these biased perceptions, take action by responding with tit - for - tat attacks on climate skeptics, it takes energy and effort away from offering a positive message and engagement campaign that builds public support for climate action and instead feeds a downward spiral of «war» and conflict rhetoric that appears as just more ideological rancor to the wider public.

Written accounts may be more, or less reliable depending on the likely bias of the writer, cui bono, eg the public statements of political leaders as players are more suspect than their private correspondence to a trusted associate.

Tell me, too, how someone who sees things as you do — all built into Bayesianism; no need to address whether the problem is different priors or different sources of information relevant to truth - seeking likelihood ratios vs. a form of biased perception that opportunisitcally bends whatever evidence is presented to fit a preconception; no need apparently either for empirical study on any of this — can straighten out someone who says the key to dispelling public conflict over climate change is just to disseminate study findings on scientific consensus.

The counterbalance to the subjective declarations about whose scientific «expertise» is sufficient to make public statements on issues with large societal implications lies, IMO, in bringing in the scientific method to clarify and make explicit the working criteria for evaluating expertise, and to control for biasing influences.

My study on CAGW initially focused on a very specific aspect — data presentation bias / fraud in the climate data as presented by climate scientists to the public, the media and the policy makers.

Now contrast that with George Mason University, which has yet to announce a public inquiry into the Wegman scandal despite clear prima facie evidence of misconduct and co-operation with a biased partisan attack on other colleagues.

However, the Committee believes that the nature of the IPCC's task (i.e., in presenting a series of expert judgments on issues of great societal relevance) demands that the IPCC pay special attention to issues of independence and bias to maintain the integrity of, and public confidence in, its results.