Sentences with phrase «significant bias against»

In the last four general elections the voting system has delivered significant bias against the Conservative party.

As we won the game for once the wrong Important Decision, and significant bias against us didn't cost us any points.

Not exact matches

The fact that only 30 % of midwives report is concerning, and seems to create a significant reporting bias against of negative data.

Also, GENDA supporters yesterday released a letter to the Senate leaders from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who noted that the New York City Human Rights Law was amended by Local Law 3 in 2002 to protect against bias in areas including public accommodations and no there was no «significant increase» in crime as a result of that change.

The performance differences, however, while statistically significant, are much smaller than those found in the NAEP analysis, which supports the view that control variables used in the NAEP models are biased against private schools.

Put another way, we find strong evidence that schools may be biased against identifying minority children with clinically significant needs as having disabilities.

«We examined the evidence for a time - dependent elevation bias in the reconstruction by regressing mean MXD against mean sample elevation for different age classes of trees... These results (shown in [their] Table 2) indicate no significant elevational influence on mean density, at least over the range of elevation involved in these calculations»

An irrational bias against the world's most environmentally significant agricultural resource keeps discussion of biogenic radiative forcing on the back burner.

Despite the large community size of the websites and controls against anonymous voting, significant biases were observed for user voting and rating behavior.

While the following principles are not a formal or comprehensive attempt to capture all of the actions that public and private institutions could undertake, they offer a framework of recommendations [23] that, if implemented, would eliminate pervasive biases against marriage without placing significant new demands on the public purse.