Sentences with phrase «perhaps more biased»

Activists in the UK usually target asset discounts & realizations (so investment trusts / companies are ideal), while European / US activists are perhaps more biased towards operational change (which may require a longer investment horizon).

Not exact matches

Rather than decoding the obvious biases of CEOs, perhaps we should be more worried about deciphering the bizarre agendas of the country's academic community.

Perhaps this is a bit of gender bias, but over and over again we hear how much more reluctant boys are to potty train.

Perhaps this is a bit of gender bias... more

Increasing the energy levels would impact the on / off ratio of the device, perhaps also decreasing the power needed for switching on the device if more energy levels become accessible for transiting electrons at low bias voltages.

The concern is twofold; that the data will be unusable or, perhaps more worryingly, that potentially biased and poorly acquired data is used to inform policy decisions and the future of patient care.»

The study found that female babies in West Africa were more likely to die, perhaps due partly to a gender bias and preference for sons.

You need to read more carefully and with less of your non-defensive bias perhaps.

Unless «other factors» (discrimination, for instance, or lack of information) prevented them from following through on their demand, then, many more low - income parents would probably go private than currently do, and the income biases associated with the current system would be reduced, perhaps drastically.

On the other, it could be that students in some schools rate their social - emotional skills more critically than in others, perhaps due to variation in norms across schools that leads to reference bias.

Perhaps a more reasonable explanation, though, is that there is some bias in the tests upon which the TVAAS scores are measured (as likely related to some likely issues with the vertical scaling of Tennessee's tests, not to mention other measurement errors).

Perhaps there's some bias on my part as the editor of an indie comics blog, but I would argue that, more often than not, that's where true innovation in this industry tends to originate, amongst the artists who are not constrained by the wants, desires, and politics of large corporations.

To me, home bias is a more unique / significant risk, with some (perhaps small) probability of catastrophe (which unfortunately is often amplified in the rest of your life / finances in the worst case scenario), and something I want to avoid.

But knowing our all - too human biases, I reckon growth investing may ultimately be more palatable & rewarding for most investors — perhaps / simply because value investing can be far too demanding.

Even within the US, there is home bias among investors to the extent that we tend to invest more in companies that are near to us — perhaps it is a greater flow of informal information.

You know, when people talk about property, they really seem to exhibit their personal biases... Euro property talk always seems to revolve around the UK, Ireland, France, Switzerland, and perhaps the Mediterranean (if they're feeling a little more mellow).

Of course, this may very well be bias talking, what with the concept explored more than a few times, perhaps most prominently in the Blade Runner.

With Bob Dylan, the case is similar yet from a different, perhaps even more strongly biased, perspective.

Perhaps rather than thinking that anyone can claim ownership over the definition of responsible advocacy, we should focus more on identifying the biases (that, IMO, affect all advocacy) and stop objecting to the advocacy of others, on principle, even as we advocate ourselves.

Perhaps the cognitive ability to consider variations that might be more successful has some correlation with the liberal political bias because the authoritarian preference for fixed forms among conservatives is less adaptive.

This is a separate issue from whether TTLS is more accurate than ridge, which is what the reviewer seems to be implying by the term «bias» — perhaps meaning that the ridge estimator is not a variance - unbiased estimator.

And while the satellite altimetry trend is nominally marginally higher than with the tide gauges — it is perhaps more rational to consider that the «biasing» linear trends are broadly in accord.

The other quote «When we do not adjust NMAT as discussed in section 2, our computed 1854 - 1941 bias correction is about constant» is interesting and perhaps more interesting again in full:

The separation of the decision - making function within the MoJ which LASPO set up is not sufficient to prevent the potential for bias, or perhaps more importantly, the perception of bias in individual cases.

And a lot of the commentary, perhaps especially on legal blogs (or maybe I just have a biased sample, since I am more likely to read legal blogs than other sources), bothers me because it strikes me as simultaneously being inexpert and attempting to trade on the ostensible authority of the writer.

As in - house counsel, it is hard to think of an association more relevant than the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (http://www.ccca-accje.org/)(acknowledging that I sit on the National Executive for the CCCA — so perhaps I am biased!).

Hence, speculatively, perhaps certain proximal correlates of rearing in advantaged socioeconomic environments (e.g. more frequent and consistent exposure to supportive parenting practices and parent — child interactions; more frequent home and school exposures to adult modeling of adaptive decision - making) favorably influence — and in their absence, impede — the assembly and long - term functionality of brain systems supporting top - down or regulatory control functions that, in turn, bias individuals toward less impulsive decision - making (Hackman and Farah, 2009; Hackman et al.

Overall, he added, restricting mortgages on condos more than houses «poses something of an inferential bias against renters, which may be at odds with housing needs and perhaps local planning goals.»