Sentences with phrase «own potential biases»

The move appeared to be an attempt to get out in front of some of the criticism of potential bias, and Facebook also published a 28 - page internal document about how Trending Topics functions.

Once the evaluation process begins, «blind» hiring tactics can eliminate potential biases.

By breaking up workplace homogeneity, you can allow your employees to become more aware of their own potential biases — entrenched ways of thinking that can otherwise blind them to key information and even lead them to make errors in decision - making processes.

May 12, 2016: Facebook releases a 28 - page internal document outlining guidelines for staff curating Trending Topics, in response to media reporting suggesting potential bias.

In addition, only a few forecasts provide projections of medium term economic forecasts, resulting a break and potential bias between the short and medium - term projections.

I'm aware of this potential bias and am careful not to ascribe too much brilliance to the former category and too little to the latter.

As an example, when you publicly state that you believe X stock is going up you are setting in place a potential bias that may cause faulty thinking.

To address allegations of bias, Facebook is bringing in two outside advisors — one to conduct a legal audit of its impact on underrepresented communities and communities of color, and another to advise the company on potential bias against conservative voices.

Even more interesting, your opinion and potential bias is based on wages and benefits.

And I sell a plant - based protein powder of my own, so this opens the door for some potential bias.

This admittedly creates some potential bias.

The use of mock products reduced the potential bias from preconceived notions about known brands.

This difference could be explained by a potential bias in the design, analysis, or interpretation of the results obtained in the SRs, depending on whether the authors reported having any financial conflict of interest or not.

When you point out that he gives a yellow to Pineda, but not Donadel, it demonstrates a lack of consistency and implies a potential bias which loses him points.

As such, they are doing fair job of controlling for this potential bias, within the capabilities of a non-research environment.

To assess this potential bias we examined whether cases with longer recall intervals might report fan use less often than cases interviewed closer to the date of infant death.

Mom - of - two King shared with Bratton: «All black parents have had the conversation with their sons about being stopped by the police and how they have to manage the police's potential biases of them.»

More than 100 prospective jurors filled out questionnaires yesterday, as prosecutors and defense lawyers sought to identify potential bias or conflicts that might disqualify people from serving next week in the corruption trial of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

On that front the Survation poll is pretty positive about Jeremy Corbyn with people saying he came across as more trustworthy and in touch than his rivals (though such polls are always a bit tricky because of the choice of clips — Survation tried to iron out any potential biasing effect by having clips from each candidate being interviewed on the Marr show, so they were all interviews, all the same setting and same interviewer... but even then you ended up with two candidates defending their position on the welfare bill, one talking about the EU referendum and one talking about rail nationalisation.

Last week, more than 100 potential jurors filled out a 15 - page questionnaire that was designed to highlight potential bias or conflicts that might disqualify a person from serving in the case.

Potential bias may arise even earlier in the hiring process, she and others note, before candidates even make it to the final selection round.

«But many scientists focused on DNA sequencing have brushed aside aspects of the fossil data, but when you minimise the potential biases in molecular dating you instead get a story that matches the fossil evidence.»

What's more, he adds, using insurance claims data means the sample isn't random: «There are all sorts of potential biases.»

The collaborators have also been working with scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, to make sure they address potential biases in the study.

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.

Study limitations include potential bias due to nonrandomized design.

«There were only a handful of studies for each of the 19 instruments, and very few looked at anything that could give us insight into potential bias against racial or minority groups.»

The surveys were conducted through a web - based questionnaire, without any researcher interference, to reduce or eliminate potential bias.

Changes in productivity were estimated within individual firms and across whole industrial sectors, enabling the researchers to control for potential biases and conduct extensive «difference - in - differences» analysis to verify their findings.

In 2015, one group proposed testing data for potential bias by building a computer program that uses people's nonsensitive features to predict their sensitive ones, like race or sex.

Despite potential biases in the data, methods of analysis can be used to reduce bias effects well enough to enable us to measure long - term Earth temperature changes.

Among the areas determined to be flawed and in need of more research are: accuracy and error rates of forensic analyses, sources of potential bias and human error in interpretation by forensic experts, fingerprints, firearms examination, tool marks, bite marks, impressions (tires, footwear), bloodstain - pattern analysis, handwriting, hair, coatings (for example, paint), chemicals (including drugs), materials (including fibers), fluids, serology, and fire and explosive analysis.

The difficult issues for understanding global warming are the potential biases.

Although a scan of the published record for potentially applicable studies turned up 1,553 possible candidates, independent reviewers dismissed most of them as containing either potential biases or major deficiencies in their design or data reports.

Scientists should avoid them because they are imprecise, not because of any potential bias.

Without searching for this potential bias in their studies of sexual cannibalism, however, researchers will never know which is true, she says.

I would suggest that the degree to which horizontal heat tranfer is reflected in the NH / SH ratio, it would also impact the TCR bias, leaving the ratio as a good constraint on the potential bias.

A tag attached to the barcode acts as a unique molecular identifier to help account for potential biases introduced through polymerase chain reaction — based amplification.

This catalog is the first to utilize artificial transit injection to evaluate the performance of our vetting procedures and quantify potential biases, which are essential for accurate computation of planetary occurrence rates.

To control for the potential bias associated with the higher yields obtained with more recent blood culture methods, several multivariate analyses were done.

In order to do model versus proxy comparisons, it is necessary to understand how proxies filter and reflect the climate system, and to account of those processes and any potential biases.

In order to avoid a potential bias caused by selection of a particular referent subject, subject - specific SI maps from all the subjects are summarized as a weighted average, with the Jaccard index for each subject as the weight.

S4B; see SI Text, Investigation of Potential Bias for investigation of potential bias in our data).

After accounting for potential bias, the researchers concluded that the gender gap for drinking fell by 3.2 percent with each successive five - year generation, but was steepest among those born from 1966 onward.

That meant there was less potential bias from these factors, Cook explained.

The issues are; plantar heel pain is a symptom not a diagnosis (therefore some of these studies may include multiple conditions); the studies are subject to potential bias (addresses by the authors); the studies do not compare like with like studies and seemed to have been shoe horned together to achieve a conclusion; and finally, foot orthoses do not logically conform to randomised control trials.

Berkeley Earth was created to address potential biases in the land surface temperature record.

Harris Interactive says the results have been weighted to correct for potential bias in its online surveys.

I use a statistical method known as robust linear regression with countries as strata and schools (or countries where appropriate) as the primary sampling unit to calculate appropriate standard errors for my findings and to adjust for this potential bias.

This is the focus of a new report [published in the Australian Journal of Education] from researchers at the University of New England, which looks at different types of potential bias in grading including gender, race and physical attractiveness.