Sentences with phrase «potential bias given»
Part of Macfarlane's concern is around judges» attitudes and potential bias given what she says is their understandable difficulty in dealing with unrepresented parties.
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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.
«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.»
Given the weak evidence for the IOC's policy and its potential for fostering gender hysteria, the problem here isn't one of unfair advantage but of bias and discrimination.
Incorporating an autobiographical activity like this into pre-teacher and pre-service training and making it available to principals would also give principals greater insight into the backgrounds, potential biases, and strengths of their incoming teachers.
Paper authors noted in their discussion that there were limitations to interpretations of the study, particularly given the potential for anthropomorphism (projecting human traits onto animals) and owner bias, and that further investigations independent of owner interpretation are required.
It's possible, given the potential seasonality / latitudinal bias, that there is in fact no precedent over the past 11,000 years (and likely longer, since the preceding glacial period was almost certainly globally cooler than the Holocene) for the warmth we are seeing today.
As policy makers contend with deve - loping responses to climate change and its impacts in Alaska and beyond, it is imperative that the use and interpretation of scientific studies to support policy development minimizes any potential for bias by giving due consideration to the methodsused to estimate temperature change.
The problem is that Professor Wensch is unhappy with being quoted in a manner that gives weight to his proper and appropriate concern about the uncertainty of global climate «science» and the high potential for bias.
The issue in Jacob Securities Inc. v Typhoon Capital B.V., was whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose a potential conflict of interest involving his former law firm gave rise to justifiable doubts as to his independence or impartiality and a reasonable apprehension of bias.
Mediator - arbitrators are encouraged to consider the potential pitfalls of making «evaluative comments» that might give an appearance of bias, Hickman adds.
(a) make sufficient inquiries to determine if he or she may have a current or potential conflict of interest or if any circumstances exist that may give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias; and
The majority did note that a trial judge retains discretion to exclude evidence in a given case, based on the sorts of potential problems we identified, including an individual DRE's inability to explain how he / she made the determination, evidence of bias, failure to comply with the training, and contradiction of the DRE's opinion by bodily sample evidence or even the evidence of bystanders.
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.
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.