Sentences with phrase «possible bias»

Educators also try to keep discipline fair by checking for possible bias against students they refer for discipline.

To make such a big conclusion based on four data points chosen with possible bias (we don't know) needs something much more secure, much more analytical.

This is usually done by evaluating climate model data only where and when observations are available, in order to mimic the observational system and avoid possible biases introduced by changing observational coverage.

Two decades later, additional possible biases are still being identified in the satellite temperature record.

To control for possible bias from differential attrition or lack of comparability between groups we successfully followed, we used hierarchical linear regression, controlling for baseline measures of mental health and support to examine parenting, social support, and mental health outcomes.

(c) The licensee who is asked to testify regarding a therapy client who is involved in a parenting plan case, shall be aware of the limitations and possible biases inherent in such a role and the possible impact on the ongoing therapeutic relationship.

A study published today in Science may shed new light on why African American scientists are so rare in biomedical research — and raises troubling questions about possible bias during grant reviews conducted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

In addition, the order in which each bowl was positioned was changed daily within each 4 day block to eliminate possible bias associated with a favoured feeding position.

In the WG case, the SCC in 1999 did in fact consider possible bias at the appellate court level — in that case on the part of the Newfoundland Court of Appeal.

Limitations included the lack of randomization and possible bias due to self - selection.

Report response rates, margins of error, and indications of other possible biases for any of the important categories for which data are reported; for example, in providing comparisons among states or denominations.

The prospective design, with data collection before the occurrence of type 2 diabetes, and the use of validated FFQs at baseline reduce possible biased recall of diet, although it is possible that diets have changed during follow - up, which could influence the results.

And is this not a general argument for a slight possible bias of all reconstructions towards overestimated variability.

Advice from any source to policy - making must acknowledge possible bias

Voir dire examination serves to protect that right by exposing possible biases, both known and unknown, on the part of potential jurors.

Limitations include the lack of a comparison group, lack of structured diagnostic instruments, and possible biases on the clinician report measures.

To examine possible biases of this method, we repeated LTA in the complete cases.

Although it is important to keep possible bias in mind when working with retrospective reports (Schwartz & Finley, 2009), the purpose of this study is to assess the degree to which young adult daughters perceived their fathers as being involved, irrespective of actual involvement.

Or a music student who passionately defends the merest hint of possible bias in your favorite hobby?

First, IES has taken the role of creating a series of public goods that no one else would or could do without concerns about possible bias.

The advantages come at the price of concerns about the limited number of country observations, the mostly cross-sectional character of available achievement data, and possible bias from unobserved country factors such as culture.

And I most definitely will not let the results of some survey convince me that I'm doing it wrong — at least not if they want me to pay almost $ 300 just to see the survey and the results and when it is clear from the data that has been reported that the survey has some very serious problems with the survey sample and with possible bias.

And the evidence for possible bias is clear,» said Converse.

To try to eliminate possible bias, the candidates» comments were stripped of names and given randomly generated numbers, so the professors would not know who made each statement they were grading.

Limitations included lack of comparison group and possible bias due to self - selection into the program.

The hydrodynamics and behavioral experiments were not carried out together to avoid possible biasing and / or harmful effects to the fish by the pulsing laser.

Encourage journalists to be more transparent about the possible biases in polls about religion by including information about response rates in press releases.

«Even in their acknowledgments about the possible biases in their study, the authors still use absurd and meaningless terms like «militant atheist,»» he added.

These figures account for a larger value than the SIPRI's one, but they added the «security» expenditures too (a possible bias).

Police are investigating a possible bias crime in Rockland County after incendiary devices went off outside two rabbis» homes Tuesday night.

«Salmon provides a much richer model of the RNA - seq experiment and of the possible biases that are known to occur during sequencing,» Kingsford said.

Scaling sea surface and ocean depth temperatures with the surface air temperatures, also accounts for any possible bias the climate models may have in simulating (i.e.underestimating) natural variatibility.

Although the signal is only a tiny fraction of the data, we made many checks for possible bias and we are confident that the signal is genuine.»

Even the most careful research does not cover all the bases or exclude all the possible biases.

The cloud hovering over the comparison between voucher and class - size research is not the intervening effect of class size on our findings, but rather the possible bias in Krueger's own estimates.

Teachers are never asked to directly compare the work of a pupil from their school with a pupil from another school, to prevent any possible bias creeping in.

Related, districts «do not have processes in place to address the possible biases in observational scores,» not to mention the VAM scores with which they are most often combined across contemporary systems.

Researchers concluded that because districts «do not have processes in place to address the possible biases in observational scores,» statistical adjustments might be made to offset said bias, as might external observers / raters be brought in to yield more «objective» observational assessments of teachers.

In this novel as in real life the characters must evaluate the motive (s) and possible biases of the journalist before he or she responds to what has been presented.