Sentences with phrase «potentially skewing the results»

Now a study in Science [subscription required] reveals that plastics may also be a problem in the lab: Compounds purposely embedded in plastic lab equipment — to prevent bacteria from growing and to lower the melting temperature — can taint complex biological experiments, potentially skewing the results.

The researchers only measured heart health at the beginning of the study, and the heart - disease risk factors of some participants may have changed significantly in the following decade, potentially skewing the results.

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Because older red blood cells have had more time to pick up sugar in the blood, they can potentially skew the A1C test result, which averages glucose across red blood cells of all ages in the bloodstream.

But according to Barasi, this could potentially skew the sample profiles within each region, making the results an artifact of the weighting process rather than offering real insight.