Sentences with phrase «other biased outcomes»

July 19, 2013 • New research suggests that racial disparities and other biased outcomes in medicine, the criminal justice system, and other areas, can be explained by unconscious attitudes and stereotypes.

Not exact matches

The others were at unclear risk of attrition bias: two because of incomplete reporting (Penfold 2014; Winterburn 2003) and four because although there was low attrition, there was no information on loss of twins and any missing data could relate to the true outcome (Collins 2004; Graffy 2004; Paul 2012; Reeder 2014).

Twelve of the included studies were judged at low risk of bias for incomplete outcome data on the basis that attrition rate was less than 20 % for all outcomes (other than satisfaction), or missing outcome data were balanced across groups (Begley 2011; Biro 2000; Flint 1989; Harvey 1996; Hicks 2003; Homer 2001; Kenny 1994; McLachlan 2012; North Stafford 2000; Tracy 2013; Turnbull 1996; Waldenstrom 2001).

«This apparent editorial bias leads to the «file - drawer effect,» in which research with statistically significant outcomes are much more likely to get published, while other work that might well be just as important scientifically is never seen in print.

In contrast to previous studies of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the new study is one of the few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.

Academic journals are increasingly asking authors to use transparent reporting practices to «trust, but verify» that outcomes are not being reported in a biased way and to enable other researchers to reproduce the results.

But this type of «selection bias» could influence effects on earnings and other long - term outcomes.

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality...

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families.

We recommend that all other districts provide similar opportunities to their teachers and staff to help offset the impact of implicit bias on educational outcomes for minority students.

What started as behavioral biases — that we confuse short - term performance as vital information on manager skill, and that we enjoy blaming others and holding them accountable for random bad outcomes — have been institutionalized.6 No longer can behavioral biases be overcome by the greater mastery of one's emotional state or by attaining greater investment enlightenment.

The raters were ideologically biased activists who had a particular outcome in mind, and were given the power to create that outcome given that the study was based on their subjective ratings of climate science abstracts (and other random abstracts evidently).

I'm not a scientist but I'm good with words and logic so I can take the science provided by others and look at it in new ways to try and formulate a coherent whole without a personal bias towards any specific outcome.

My own personal bias is that conspiracy ideation, and offering hyperbolic rhetoric is not disproporationate on one side of the climate wars compared to the other, and further, that what we know about human psychology and cognition would make such an outcome implausible.

This will allow responses on the MCS to be interpreted in the context of longitudinal data that is subject to minimal selection bias and will permit investigation of multiple factors associated with outcomes of low prevalence, and / or of relevance to cultural, geographic, socioeconomic or other subgroups within the population.

So, on the one hand, overweighing rewards associated with certain activities, including gambling itself, can heighten mood and sometimes increase recklessness, consistent with reports that gambling behaviour has a mood regulatory purpose in affected individuals.4 On the other hand, failure to properly balance the impact of rewards and punishment, and the interdiction of cognitive biases including «illusions of control» over the outcomes of probabilistic processes5 may lead to behaviour with consequences that destabilise mood, worsen clinical condition, or increase the risk of relapse.

Response biases are only one of the sources of spurious or misleading correlations between parental behaviors and child outcomes discussed in my book (Harris, 1998); six others are listed in my article (Harris, 1995, pp. 477 - 479) and are also discussed in the book.

Review authors will independently assess the risk of bias within the published reports of each included study based on the domains typically included within Cochrane reviews (sequence generation, allocation concealment, blinding of treatment providers and personnel, blinding of outcome assessors, incomplete outcome data, selective reporting bias, and other sources of bias), and assign ratings of high, low or unclear risk of bias in accordance with plans presented in Appendix 3.