Not exact matches
During the voir dire process the
potential jurors come in and they're asked a series of questions by the parties and by the judge to determine whether each
potential juror can be completely unbiased and impartial and objective, to make sure they're not
biased towards one party or the
other.
To use smart algorithms responsibly, companies — particularly financial services firms — must identify
potential problems early and have a well - conceived plan for addressing and removing unintended
bias before it leads to discrimination in their lending practices, as well as
potential discriminatory
biases that may reach beyond lending and affect
other aspects of a company's operations.
We have a daily market commentary which talks about
potential price action setups, key levels, market
bias and
other relevant information.
GFI aims for diversity in their hires primarily through hiring practices that are intended to help them minimize the effects of
bias, such as encouraging staff to score applications anonymously, using generalized ability tests, and meeting applicants only late in the process.88 While they've hired many women, including in seven of nine director roles, they find that their team is lacking in diversity in
other ways, and they've met with Encompass to discuss further steps they can take to develop their diversity strategy.89 One staff member we spoke to mentioned that they hoped GFI would be able to begin paying interns, which might help diversify their team by broadening the pool of
potential interns who could afford to take a position with GFI.90, 91
All studies raised concerns about
other potential sources of
bias.
These studies are at risk for selection
bias both of cases and of control individuals and their results might be influenced by
potential confounders such as
other health behaviors that may be independently associated both with breastfeeding and childhood leukemia risk, although this is of course not limited to case - control studies.
Other research in political psychology suggests that the no campaign has had a much easier job — those inclined to political conservatism are more likely to have a «negativity
bias» in their response to environmental stimuli — conservatives have more of a physiological reaction to
potential threats in the environment and subsequently devote more psychological resources towards dealing with them: conservatives, quite literately, see more things that could go wrong than liberals.
Potential bias may arise even earlier in the hiring process, she and
others note, before candidates even make it to the final selection round.
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.
Other persistent problems with the validity of studies of caffeine and miscarriage include confounding by smoking and
potential recall
bias.
St. Charles began its efforts to improve minority participation in gifted and talented programs in much the same way as countless
other districts, focusing on how to remove one of two
potential roadblocks in the way of qualified minority students —
biased teachers or
biased tests.
Douglas N. Harris, a professor of economics at Tulane University, in New Orleans, added that the study didn't address some
other potential sources of
bias.
... since student growth percentiles make no attempt (by design) to consider
other factors that contribute to student achievement growth, the measures have significant
potential for omitted variables
bias.
The use of these models allows researchers to control for
potential selection
biases of the Fellowship's rigorous entrance requirements, as well as
other potential sources of
bias.
Realizing that Success Academy's own marketing materials are heavily
biased, we also sought news articles, employee reviews, and independent reports that highlight
potential counter-narratives from teachers, parents, and
other stakeholders.
Publisher: Bethesda Developer: id Software Platforms: PC (review platform), PlayStation 4, Xbox One Alright, let's get my
potential bias out of the way first: I, like many
other people on Steam, HATED the DOOM multiplayer alpha / beta.
The IPCC range, on the
other hand, encompasses the overall uncertainty across a very large number of studies, using different methods all with their own
potential biases and problems (e.g., resulting from
biases in proxy data used as constraints on past temperature changes, etc.) There is a number of single studies on climate sensitivity that have statistical uncertainties as small as Cox et al., yet different best estimates — some higher than the classic 3 °C, some lower.
«On the
other hand, the long - term trend in NH is relatively robust to the inclusion of dendroclimatic indicators in the network, suggesting that
potential tree growth trend
biases are not influential in the multiproxy climate reconstructions.»
The first place to start, if you want to support a hypothesis that the fault lies predominantly with one side as opposed to the
other, is to carefully control for the
potential of influencing
biases.
There are too many
potential sources of
bias which are not accounted for, too many apples - to - oranges comparisons, and they can not draw any conclusions about urban heat influences until their data are homogenized and
other non-climate influences are removed.
If you (or anyone else) could explain to me whether there is a criterion that differentiates my posts about
potential bias in your (or
other posters») analysis from
other posts that also focus on
potential bias in your (or
other posters») analysis — outside of starting orientation or the fact that they elicit more responses — I will heretofore make an effort to respect that criterion as exclusionary.
My posts are about
potential biases in the opinions expressed by
others, Judy being among them.
The attribute of being about Judy (or of being about
potential bias in the opinions of
others) does not distinguish my posts.
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.
On the
other hand, the
potential is clearly there to
bias the temperature readings in / around urban centers when small fractions of a degree are considered significant.
A selection of
potential defendants is beneficial because it opens up the opportunity to select a venue with fewer
biases against or
other inconveniences for your client.
In efforts to minimize the arbitrariness of how courts define the worst of crimes, and to eliminate
potential bias in capital and
other criminal sentencing, the Depravity Scale research aims to distinguish the specific evidence — that is, the intents, actions, and attitudes of a given crime — that warrants the most severe sentences.
Be sure to address any
potential issues in your work history, such as gaps in employment,
potential age
bias, or
other issues, as the payoff can be significant.
Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially control for
potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive
bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection
bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760 people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and
other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.
Read, watch films, talk to
others, cultivate a diverse community and do your own personal excavation regarding your cultural
biases as a way to reduce
potential harm.