Sentences with phrase «potential for bias»

But Stephen Gorard, professor of education at Durham University, who has previously led research into the similar Philosophy 4 Children project, said the loss of the data from seven schools in the treatment group, which amounts to more than 21 per cent data in the trial missing, means «there is huge potential for bias in this trial.»

Although we know that there is great potential for bias when we compute value - added scores for teachers working in different schools, we do not yet know the extent to which this potential is actually realized.

They looked at 25 studies that compared brushing alone or brushing + flossing and found that there was very little evidence for flossing with a large potential for bias.

Rather than making it a witch hunt, it's important to explain that the potential for bias is common but there are ways that companies are helping their workforces to identify and combat it.

«Certain groups such as young males and ethnic minorities are overrepresented on the database, and the council will be asking whether this potential for bias in law enforcement is acceptable,» said chairman Bob Hepple.

«The studies point out a potential for bias in the peer - review system,» says R. Brian Haynes, a clinical epidemiologist at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, and the editor of two clinical journals.

Because of the potential for bias against new and unfamiliar ideas induced by the above practice I believe the peer review system of the NIH as presently constituted, has inherent tendencies to protectionism.

Sen. James Inhofe (R - OK) invited Crichton, based on the success of his novel, to testify before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works about the potential for bias in climate research, which he did on September 28, 2005.

In addition, he said, there's a potential for bias in how the children were chosen for the study.

The study is also notable for obtaining information on college enrollments for 99 percent of study participants, greatly reducing the potential for bias due to attrition from the evaluation.

This schedule set the year of first evaluation based on a teacher's year of hire, thus reducing the potential for bias that would arise if the timing of evaluation coincided with, for example, a favorable class assignment.

There's at least a passing implication, mostly unjustified though I maintain it is, that there's the potential for bias.

Besides the potential for bias, the surveys themselves are limited because they only help you understand your risk tolerance, which is the willingness to take risk.

We all have potential for bias and we all lean somewhere politically.

Policy - makers should acknowledge the potential for bias and vested interests contrary to the scientific consensus

Scientists should acknowledge the potential for bias, groupthink, and vested interests as they promote the scientific consensus.

The scenario encapsulates so much BS from assumptions, ignorance of observational trends, rational action on big and apparent dangers, and then there is the data sets, the models, the potential for bias, did I mention the assumptions.

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.

When balanced against the prejudicial effect of allowing evidence of professional liability insurance, the potential for bias in this case is so remote as to warrant exclusion.

However it's important to recognize the potential for bias from a company that has a need to sell services to camera developers, while also scoring the results from companies that it works closely with against those it doesn't.