I read and reread this roundup and don't
see evidence of any bias or untruths.
However, I fail to
see any evidence of bias in them.
Not exact matches
People who resist them will compile and present
evidence proving their Or model correct and the And model wrong, which those
of us who
see opportunity to grow, learn, and improve our lives will
see as showing their confirmation
bias.
And the hand
of DH will be recognized: we know something
of the character
of his piety and we shall
see evidence now
of his strong
bias in favor
of the southern, Judean half
of the short - lived united monarchy.
We
saw cases like McCleskey in 1987 where the Court upheld the death penalty despite overwhelming
evidence of racial
bias.
Our attempts to
see the natural revelation God has installed in the Creation act includes what «Science» discovers, but knowing we need to filter worldly
bias in the presentation
of such «scientific»
evidences since the ideas
of the world are driven by another mindset.
Those
of us that have
seen evidence of the gifts in operation would interpret the same scriptures differently because
of our underlying assumptions and
bias.
We
see evidence from this
bias or angst regularly by FIFA or UEFA and with performances
of some
of the officials chosen.
We examined plots visually to
see whether there was any
evidence of asymmetry that might suggest different treatment effects in smaller studies, which may indicate publication
bias (Harbord 2006).
Every society will be more interested in propagating and understanding itself first and foremost, I don't
see that as unexpected, nor
evidence of bias.
Neighbors and activists in Ozone Park, Queens
see religious
bias in the recent killing
of an imam from Bangladesh, but the NYPD has no
evidence to support that theory yet.
Sometimes I have some studies that show that
bias may be a potential explanation, but in much
of the data that we present here, we don't
see a lot
of evidence of bias in careers.»
«Our findings provide
evidence that the stereotypes we hold can systematically alter the brain's visual representation
of a face, distorting what we
see to be more in line with our
biased expectations,» explains Jonathan Freeman, an assistant professor in NYU's Department
of Psychology and the senior author
of the paper, which appears in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
He spoke, primarily, about the out -
of - school factors that impact student performance in schools and how this impacts and
biases all estimates based on test scores (often regardless
of the controls uses —
see a most recent post about this
evidence of bias here).
Following - up on two prior posts about potential
bias in teachers» observations (
see prior posts here and here), another research study was recently released
evidencing, again, that the evaluation ratings derived via observations
of teachers in practice are indeed related to (and potentially
biased by) teachers» demographic characteristics.
In fact, and rather, we have
evidence directly from the state
of Ohio contradicting this claim that he calls a «myth» — that, indeed,
bias is alive and well in Ohio (as well as elsewhere), especially when VAM - based estimates are aggregated at the school level (
see a post with figures illustrating
bias in Ohio here).
Detractors
of post-normal science, conversely,
see it as a method
of trying to argue for a given set
of actions despite a lack
of evidence for them, and as a method
of trying to stifle opposing voices calling for caution by accusing them
of hidden
biases.
If you don't understand the psychological
biases and heuristics that technical experts, policy - makers, and the general public, use in thinking about uncertain risks, you won't be able to communicate effectively because people will unconsciously distort what you say to fit their preconceived (possibly faulty) mental model
of the issue (
see M. Granger Morgan, «Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach» (Cambridge, 2001) for solid empirical
evidence of this problem and how to avoid it.
I will say this; I little no doubt that just as is true
of everyone else, including you, Dan's work is influenced by cultural cognition, or other manifestations
of motivated reasoning (I think I have
seen evidence of confirmation
bias, for example).
Tell me, too, how someone who
sees things as you do — all built into Bayesianism; no need to address whether the problem is different priors or different sources
of information relevant to truth - seeking likelihood ratios vs. a form
of biased perception that opportunisitcally bends whatever
evidence is presented to fit a preconception; no need apparently either for empirical study on any
of this — can straighten out someone who says the key to dispelling public conflict over climate change is just to disseminate study findings on scientific consensus.
I would like to
see just one put forth some scientific
evidence in support
of one
of the main claims made in this post... that confirmation
bias is «peculiar to the left.»
Until the roots are cleared
of a
bias towards European style authoritarian modes
of economic / social / political action as
evidenced by what we
saw in Europe / Soviet Union / PRC in the late 19th and all
of the 20th centuries, then PNS is stillborn wrt to future climate matters.
In order to «prove» (a),
evidence has to be fabricated — literally — in the sense
of using computer simulations with a preordained
bias towards the hypothesis (
see Judith Curry's series
of articles: «Overconfidence in IPCC's detection and attribution», which discusses «bootstrapped plausibility»
of models).
To name a few: Dr Nina Pierpont, USA, author
of «The Wind Farm Syndrome»; Dr Sarah Laurie, Australia, Medical Director
of the Waubra Foundation; Dr Bob Thorne, Australia, Psychoacoustician; and Dr Carl Phillips, a Harvard - trained epidemiologist specializing in public health policy, formerly tenured professor in the School
of Public Health, University
of Alberta, who wrote about governments denying the health problem: «The attempts to deny the
evidence can not be
seen as honest scientific disagreement and represent either gross incompetence or intentional
bias.»
I
see the fact that the mean and stdev
of the adjustments to the USHCN station as quite similar to the mean and stdev
of the «ground truth» adjustments based on the USCRN station as
evidence that they are doing a reasonable job
of correcting for tobs - associated
biases in the mean.
I have not
seen any convincing / plausible
evidence of AGW, mostly propaganda, dogma, confirmation
bias and hand waving.
We also
see evidence of this same sort
of siting problem around the world at many other official weather stations, suggesting that the same upward
bias on trend also manifests itself in the global temperature record.»
The combination
of apophenia (the tendency to
see patterns in random data), confirmation
bias (the tendency to focus on
evidence that is in line with our expectations or favoured explanation) and hindsight
bias (the tendency to
see an event as having been predictable only after it has occurred) can easily lead us to false conclusions,
The principle in R v Sussex Justices [1924] 1 KB 256, [1923] All ER Rep 233 — justice must not only be done but must manifestly and undoubtedly be
seen to be done — requires that, even where a tribunal shows no actual
evidence of bias, it must also satisfy the «apparent
bias test» in Porter v Magill [2001] UKHL 676 [2002] 2 AC, para 103 «whether the fair minded and informed observer, having considered the facts conclude that there was a real possibility that the tribunal was
biased».
At this point, relevance, necessity, reliability and absence
of bias can helpfully be
seen as part
of a sliding scale where a basic level must first be achieved in order to meet the admissibility threshold and thereafter continue to play a role in weighing the overall competing considerations in admitting the
evidence.
Relevance, necessity, reliability and absence
of bias can helpfully be
seen as part
of a sliding scale where a basic level must first be achieved in order to meet the admissibility threshold and thereafter continue to play a role in weighing the overall competing considerations in admitting
evidence.
Confirmation
bias rears its ugly head, where
evidence of innocence is disregarded because it doesn't fit the «truth,» and facts whose meaning is open to interpretation are only
seen as confirming that «truth.»
We
see case after case in which the preponderance
of the
evidence as to the children's better interests seemed obviously in favor
of the mother, but the judges appeared to view it through a lens
of bias against the mother (often using the very malleable «parental alienation» or «uncooperative parent» technique.)
Evidence from behavioural genetics indicates that the S allele
of the serotonin transporter gene (5 - HTTLPR) is associated with increased negative emotion, including heightened anxiety (Sen et al. 2004; Munafò et al. 2005), harm avoidance (Munafò et al. 2005), fear conditioning (Lonsdorf et al. 2009), attentional
bias to negative information as well as increased risk for depression in the presence
of environmental risk factors (Caspi et al. 2003; Taylor et al. 2006; Uher & McGuffin 2008;
see also Munafò et al. 2009).