Sentences with phrase «point about bias»

Some commentators have observed that Gould may have proven his own point about bias being inevitable in science, but with the bias merely being his own rather than Morton's.

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yawn... of course we all have subjective biases... i'm honest about mine... and really, what is the point of having the samed tired debates here... you already have your opinion made up, won't truly listen and will hear anything i say through that lens

They take every opportunity to brag about Fox News's ratings and how conservatives dominate the radio waves but the second anyone points out something stupid or offensive said by one of the right's propaganda bullies, they scream «mainstream media bias» and «left wing conspiracy».

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

You mentioned unconscious bias and you may haver a point about that if all that is involved is what is socially constructed.

Instead of you being concerned about the welfare of these eternal souls as to wondering whether or not they will get the chance for salvation, you get hung up on that somehow because not everyone will get that chance in their mortal lives that somehow that means that God is biased; that in my beliefs as to how God gives out those opprotunities that it doesn't meet to your specifications, then that automatically means that God is biased, when in my beliefs the point is that no matter how you slice it everybody whehter in this life or afterwards will get a chance at learning about the gospel and make their own choices as to whether to follow the gospel or not.

Two wins out of our last 8 League games, 11 points from a possible 24 — and all we ever hear about is how the referees are biased against us.

By far the best article I have ever read on this site, there was no bias or empty statements, just cold hard facts, the writer even respected wengers budget but still pointed to where he should've improved, there are no excuses, what you read is literrally all u get with arsene, if you gave him a budget of 9m or 1 billion, he will ALWAYS take the risk cause he doesn't give a fk about the consequences as if he was a teenager raging through puberty, his stubborn is absolutely pathetic, can you believe he turned down signing a keeper when almunia was shocking, can you believe he didn't sign a CB when squillaci was awful, can you believe that he REFUSED to sign a CDM for almost 8 years, CAN you believe on one of the most important transfer windows of arsenals history, arsene decided to go host charity matches in rome, that's right instead of trying hard for the fans that have respected him and pay him one of the highest managerial wages in the world, he decided to do what he pleased as usual, cause he doesn't answer to anyone, nor does he giving a flying fk, gazidis a man i thought was also a crook went and did arsene's job for him and at least got us a striker (which cost us the title in january last season) and arsene foolishly proclaims that «if i was here we wouldn't of signed danny» meaning we wouldn't of had ANY recognised cf till giroud recovered, arsene wenger is a joke of the highest order, lack of respect, lack of shame and lack order, i despise him

As much as we admittedly have to overcome a bias against betting high totals over (though the bias is based on facts), this game should have about 250 points scored.

I am just hearing about this story and have been trying to follow it from a non biased point of view... which is hard most of the time.

As I wrote before, polls in the most competitive Senate races look to have had about a 6 - percentage point Democratic bias based on the votes as counted so far.

Which was kind of my point to begin with; It's not about actual falsehoods (except when it is, I guess), but about what he perceives as bias against him.

That's about the point that Labour can win more seats than the opposition, due to the British electoral system's inbuilt bias.

My point was that the non-scientists Will and Crichton should be listened to because they are giving testimony about the possibility of social - political issues involving bias.

Now, as Garcia pointed out, she's biased about that Star Wars project because it features -LSB-...]

Now, as Garcia pointed out, she's biased about that Star Wars project because it features Alden Ehrenreich, who starred in the film adaptation of her book, Beautiful Creatures.

In short, Strategy 2 generates unambiguous evidence about the existence of peer effects, but the range of estimates is somewhat wide: 0.10 to 0.55 points is a plausible summary of the range, given the various results and known biases.

Mr. Hess points to longstanding disagreements between the left's focus on implicit bias and the right's perspective that «the more we fixate on skin color, the more we prime people to think about it.»

The teachers also used the materials to teach their students about critical thinking, analyzing point - of - view, and recognizing literary devices and bias.

This last point, which according to the judge «shock [ed] the conscience,» came almost entirely thanks to the testimony of Thomas Kane (see prior posts about his Bill and Melinda Gates funded research here and here) and the testimony of Raj Chetty, Kane's colleague at Harvard who has also been the source of many prior posts (see here and here), but whose research at the source of his testimony has also been recently (and seriously) scrutinized given how bias in his study actually made false this key assertion.

For example, one study, which points out that almost all the evidence about validity is based on studies in elementary schools, provides evidence that typical value - added measures are biased in middle and high school.

Accordingly, there is much research about how such survey data can be gamed and manipulated by instructors (e.g., via the use of external incentives / disincentives), can be biased by respondent or student background variables (e.g., charisma, attractiveness, gender and race as compared to the gender and race of the teacher or instructor, grade expected or earned in the class, overall grade point average, perceived course difficulty or the lack thereof), and the like.

Chetty might even agree with this assertion, although he would disagree with the EVAAS's (typical) lack of use of controls for student background variables / demographics — a point of contention that has been debated, now, for years, with research evidence supporting both approaches; hence, the intense debates about VAM — based bias, now also going on for years.

History detail, and a nice one to include not just for versimilitude, but for making a subtle point about the layers of social convention and bias that this novel reveals.

When we talk about the writing, we explain what we do or don't like, and often the editors will get other «first readers» from inside the company to weigh in on the writing to make sure we're not biased by, say, a few people who just really don't like first - person point - of - view.

I thought about commenting on all the terribly spurious and biased points, but figured my own blog post was better suited if anyone is interested.

Misconception happens all the time and it gets to the point that he is «proud of not caring» about biased criticism.

I think this article says a lot about value Investing, If business and management of an organization is strong and due to behavioral biasing stock price of that company moving down that is the point to find by us and buy that stock then the crowd after realizing will join us and help to compounding.

IÂ'll admit that IÂ'm a bit biased about Ambergris Caye. But in fairness, I decided to dedicate some time to researching items that I consider important when transitioning to a new location, such as Nevis. Since both Ambergris Caye and Nevis are Caribbean islands, this was an interesting exercise. Here are a few points of comparison:

The Washington Post is a crap newspaper, it's freaking liberal to the point that it's biased against about anything that doesn't lean to the left.

My point was that the non-scientists Will and Crichton should be listened to because they are giving testimony about the possibility of social - political issues involving bias.

Ian and Robert will not accept your argument about the bias in journals and institutions of higher learning as you have rightly pointed out.

His point was not about biases among GT2006 students, but student biases in general, and what you can expect if you accuse someone of a bias but can't or won't back it up.

At that point, you don't have to care about reducing bias or the like (outside of the important market aspect of evaluating the outcome of predictions for payouts, that is!).

Re # 77 My point is Sadlov is a pretty smart guy; he's not going to try to win an unwinnable argument about what the biases might be in a bunch of people he's never interacted with.

The author's points on non-linearity and time delays are actually more relevant to the discussion in other presentations when I talked about whether the climate models that show high future sensitivities to CO2 are consistent with past history, particularly if warming in the surface temperature record is exaggerated by urban biases.

Psychologists studying climate communication make two additional (and related) points about why the warming - snow link is going to be exceedingly difficult for much of the public to accept: 1) people's confirmation biases lead them to pay skewed attention to weather events, in such a way as to confirm their preexisting beliefs about climate change (see p. 4 of this report); 2) people have mental models of «global warming» that tend to rule out wintry impacts.

«The messages of the two points outlined in the extract above are: (1) the claims about increases in frequency and intensity of extreme events are generally not supported by actual observations and, (2) official information about climate science is largely controlled by agencies through (a) funding choices for research and (b) by the carefullyselected (i.e. biased) authorship of reports such as the EPA Endangerment Finding and the National Climate Assessment.»

(http://www.joseduarte.com/blog/cooking-stove-use-housing-associations-white-males-and-the-97) He makes quite a good case about various biases being in the methodology along with pointing out how the claimed standards have not been met in various ways.

He makes quite a good case about various biases being in the methodology along with pointing out how the claimed standards have not been met in various ways.

Metric bias results in more stringent gas water - heater standards despite the fact that life - cycle energy losses for natural gas are only about 10 percent of its usable energy (from the point of wellhead extraction to the consumers» utility meter) versus 70 percent for electricity.

I also pointed out that you only seem concerned about one side that is putting out biased information.

For example, if you agree that people of all ideological and cultural and political stripes are vulnerable to identity - oriented «motivated - reasoning,» then what do you think about articles that finger point about about the biases among «liberal» scientists even as the political orientation of the author is dismissed as a potentially relevant factor?

We have also identified that this point appears to have an elementary error about the difference between bias and noise.

He made the point well that much of the argument about climate consists of the scientists having to refute claims made by sceptics based on minutiae without regard for the bigger picture (2008 being colder than 1998 despite the general warming trend, or corrections upwards to the temperature of a single Tasmanian weather station despite the fact overall there was no bias).

... In a recently published book titled Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming, the technically qualified authors (scientists all) point to four reasons: a conflict among scientists in different disciplines; fundamental scientific uncertainties concerning how the global climate responds to the human presence; failure of the UN's IPCC to provide objective guidance to the complex science; and bias among researchers.»

E.g., I agree with http://www.joseduarte.com/blog/the-art-of-evasion regarding the severity of the screwed - up - ness of the points in the main post about (1) the Cook paper dysfunctionally biased methodology and (2) the Cook paper misrepresentations about the methodology.

Aren't you curious at all, Tom P, about systematic biases that could be produced at the end points of a chronology when using the RCS method?

I turn now to the claims about incomplete, and changing, data coverage biasing down HadCRUT4 warming by 15 percentage points.

Your point about «selection bias» by choosing IPCC as a filter has more merit.