Sentences with phrase «potential biasing problems»

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To use smart algorithms responsibly, companies — particularly financial services firms — must identify potential problems early and have a well - conceived plan for addressing and removing unintended bias before it leads to discrimination in their lending practices, as well as potential discriminatory biases that may reach beyond lending and affect other aspects of a company's operations.

He cited potential problems as the use of data without people's knowledge and bias decision making, such as computers making decisions in human resources and job applications without fully understanding the criteria.

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.

Other persistent problems with the validity of studies of caffeine and miscarriage include confounding by smoking and potential recall bias.

The IPCC range, on the other hand, encompasses the overall uncertainty across a very large number of studies, using different methods all with their own potential biases and problems (e.g., resulting from biases in proxy data used as constraints on past temperature changes, etc.) There is a number of single studies on climate sensitivity that have statistical uncertainties as small as Cox et al., yet different best estimates — some higher than the classic 3 °C, some lower.

When they did this, they discovered some potential instrument bias problems with the recent dataset, which seem to have resulted from the recent transition of the in - situ ocean sounding instruments from the old Expendable Bathythermographs (XBT) system, which has a small warm temperature bias, to the new Argo system, which has a small cold temperature bias in a subset of the instruments.

The problem is fully related to the potential of bias in the setup of the analysis.

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.

Each side gets the opportunity to ask potential jurors questions in an attempt to determine whether that juror has any biases or problems being fare to their client.

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 many ways, each step of the research process strives to eliminate potential «biases» (or systematic problems in the methods) in order to provide the most accurate and valid information possible.

Selection bias is also a potential problem for most studies of child care as it may confound variations in child and family characteristics with variations in child care contexts.

This study aims: (a) to examine whether poverty predicts changes in behavior problems between 1.5 and 8 years of age; (b) to estimate potential selection bias for the observed associations.

So far from these topics being off - limits, any MHP seeking appointment in a court case needs to fully inform the parties prior to their consent [123], of information about the following kinds of potentials for bias and agenda: whether the MHP has been married or divorced, and how many times, and under what kinds of circumstances, and how the MHP currently feels about those events; whether, if divorced, the MHP went through litigation over custody or property, and such details as whether the MHP had problems paying or receiving child support, as well as the custody arrangements of the MHP's own children and how these worked out and everyone's feelings about them; the MHP's own personal experience taking care of and spending time with children, within and without the scope of «parenting», and with regard to parenting, whether that was parenting as a primary caregiver, married or single parent, with or without household and third party help, or as a working parent or stay - home parent, and for how many children, and for how long, and the outcomes from all of that; i.e. how much time has this person actually spent caring for children on his or her own, and how well did this person's own family systems function, and is this person in fact an «expert» in creating a functioning family and raising happy, healthy, successful children with good outcomes, nay «best» outcomes, thoroughly well - adjusted and having reached the very pinnacles of their innate potential.

Although we used aggregate scores based on father - reports and mother - reports of child behavior problems and we observed child prosocial behavior in the home, future studies should include observations of child externalizing problems and interviews of child internalizing problems (e.g., the Berkeley Puppet Interview; Ringoot et al. 2013) to avoid potential response biases based on parents» own psychological difficulties.

Second, these data are based on retrospective self - reports of the occurrence and timing of mental disorders and suicidal behavior, which introduce potential problems with underreporting and biased recall [64].

While the depression distortion bias hypothesis argues that depressed mothers over-report problems in their children due to their «depressive schema» (Richters 1992), the competing accuracy theory claims that depressed mothers are accurate reporters due to their heightened awareness of potential problems in their children (Fergusson et al. 1993).