Sentences with phrase «significant bias in»

I am not sure whether this causes significant bias in Emanuel's PDI.

Our analysis of the mammals endangered by hunting shows a significant bias in the regions and species benefitting from research effort (figure 4).

We need to determine parameters that are not well known, deal with inadequately modeled physics, and address significant biases in the forcing fields.

Not exact matches

INDIGENOUS business experts say rapid growth in the sector is forcing a significant culture shift but it is still being restrained by traditional biases.

These obvious analysis flaws in the research methodology and the biased conclusions supports AAP's request for a delay and for a statistically significant analysis the President is requesting.

On the daily chart we see the price has surpassed and is about to close above the Monthly Pivot Range high, this is a significant event in that it demonstrates the bias has shifted from the many weeks of bearishness, to one of bullishness.

In other words, notable public discontent away from coastal regions need to be factored into investors» macro outlook, and if significant number of individuals consider a $ 400 emergency expenditure «more challenging to handle,» then investors should be biased to position portfolios more defensively (i.e. in curve steepenersIn other words, notable public discontent away from coastal regions need to be factored into investors» macro outlook, and if significant number of individuals consider a $ 400 emergency expenditure «more challenging to handle,» then investors should be biased to position portfolios more defensively (i.e. in curve steepenersin curve steepeners).

Demand from customers in this sector had driven growth, with «a significant bias for high - performance compute» leading to a shift in chip sales towards more powerful chips and therefore higher average selling prices.

Okay, here goes: You are engaging in a perceptual bias, a fallacious bit of reasoning, and you have no reasonable argument as to thinking some other species» mental idiocy to be significant in any way whatsoever beyond the mere biological curiosity of their neurological problems specific to them.

(5) Evolutionary theory is similarly influenced by the reductionistic bias of science, with its tendency to try to understand phenomena in terms of the simplest explanation (the law of parsimony) and to do so by always explaining higher orders of things in terms of lower orders — as if nothing significant were being omitted.

Broadcast bias resulted in significant national misperceptions about a major political policy issue — going to war in Iraq.

But all this is in a sense a side issue, significant only insofar as it illustrates the moral bias of the teaching of Jesus as a whole.

Nonetheless, despite their philosophic biases, many early Christians experienced Christ alive in their hearts, and thus questions surrounding his resurrection became significant.

CNN: Hate crime numbers steady, FBI reports As New York authorities investigate what appears to be the nation's latest hate crime, the FBI's annual hate crime report, released Monday, shows no significant change in the level of crimes motivated by bias.

The bible plays a significant role in the cycle of confirmation bias.

Even if we assume some bias of the source and he was wrong on 50 % of his judgements then the impact of referee's decisions is highly significant in determining the title.

So I think you'd have to say historically probably Michigan or Penn St, with significant recency bias you'd say Wisconsin (# 37 in win %) or Stanford (# 38 in win %) > I'd probably say with a combination of historic and recent performance, Penn St would be the answer.

Detection bias has also been cited as a significant methodologic problem in studies of the relation between breastfeeding and infection among full - term infants.21 Detection bias may occur when breastfed and bottle - fed infants do not have an equal chance of being identified with an illness.

In fact, even in cases where there has been prolonged difficulties or separation, interdisciplinary professional mental health support will take time but it will have a much more significant long term beneficial effect for the infant - parent / caregiver relationship than biased and pseudoscientific therapieIn fact, even in cases where there has been prolonged difficulties or separation, interdisciplinary professional mental health support will take time but it will have a much more significant long term beneficial effect for the infant - parent / caregiver relationship than biased and pseudoscientific therapiein cases where there has been prolonged difficulties or separation, interdisciplinary professional mental health support will take time but it will have a much more significant long term beneficial effect for the infant - parent / caregiver relationship than biased and pseudoscientific therapies.

None of the Begg and Egger tests were statistically significant, although the power of these tests for detecting small study bias was low especially in the studies conducted in adults.

As the Tories are in government that means a significant perception within the UK of anti-government bias.

These better implemented studies showed that marijuana use did not have a significant effect on later harder drug use (in fact, I've always been shocked how little a correlation there was, since there is still a sampling bias here that should find a mild correlation to harder drug use, I'm really shocked there wasn't really found to be any correlation).

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.

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

@democraticaudit Select committees are increasingly significant but show enormous gender bias in their witnesses http://t.co/SAWHZMEpFU #AS2

RT @democraticaudit: Select committees are becoming increasingly significant but show an enormous gender bias in their choice of witnesses...

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Select committees increasingly significant, but show an enormous gender bias in their choice of witnesses http://t.co/7wwdpBwNiZ

According to Hilda Bastian, a scientist, blogger, cartoonist, and a moderator at the AAAS Wiki Edit - a-Thon, gender bias in Wikipedia is such a significant challenge it even has its own Wikipedia page.

«This apparent editorial bias leads to the «file - drawer effect,» in which research with statistically significant outcomes are much more likely to get published, while other work that might well be just as important scientifically is never seen in print.

«This could have significant implications for both understanding inequality [in immigration], and also how to think about testing solutions that will mitigate some of these demographic biases,» says Emilio J. Castilla, an associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-author of a new paper detailing the findings.

However, those differences were not significant in further analysis and authors, overall, found no differential patient treatment related to race or social class biases.

We forensic scientists are grappling now with the implications of cognitive bias, and significant progress has been made in the field.

This is the source of both unconscious biases that may lead to bad judgments, and the insight from experts with significant experience in a specific situation.

In fact, sample sex ratios collected for loggerhead turtles for more than 10 years in Palm Beach County, Fla. show significant variability, with highly female - biased ratios being produced over a wider range of temperatures than are found in many well - controlled laboratory studieIn fact, sample sex ratios collected for loggerhead turtles for more than 10 years in Palm Beach County, Fla. show significant variability, with highly female - biased ratios being produced over a wider range of temperatures than are found in many well - controlled laboratory studiein Palm Beach County, Fla. show significant variability, with highly female - biased ratios being produced over a wider range of temperatures than are found in many well - controlled laboratory studiein many well - controlled laboratory studies.

This effectively gave a much greater weight to the high emission (A1) scenarios compared with scenarios in the other families that the SRES authors elected not to explore in the same detail, and led to a significant upward bias in the probability distribution.

HiSeq2000 shows a slightly reduced GC bias here (significant in two out of four samples: MB14 and BL14).

She maintains, however, that there are significant conscious and unconscious biases that women still have to battle in the workplace.

The mean sensitivity for ONE - level of embedding (LoE) sequences was also significantly higher than TWO - LoE sequences, but the difference in bias between the two levels of embedding was not significant (see Fig. 2 and Table 2).

In a massive data set with 8,000 statistically significant correlations, even a smidgen of confirmation bias can cause someone to find a trend that isn't truly there.

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.

There are significant unresolved issues in all studies - about the adequacy of controls for family background, the possibility of differential bias at different levels of aggregation, and the use of weak measures of achievement and spending.

In contrast, ESSA defines four levels of «evidence - based» practices: «strong,» with at least one well - designed and well - implemented experimental study with a statistically significant, positive effect; «moderate,» with at least one well - designed and well - implemented quasi-experimental study such as a matched - comparison group; «promising,» with at least one well - designed and well - implemented correlational study with statistical controls for selection bias.

(You will have noticed, of course, that they were all also taking part in some significant professional development — as masters students at my university — and so made the sample subject to considerable bias — but this was hardly a rigorous piece of research.)

The study found significant differences in course placement correlated with students» ethnicity or parental education — potentially indicating teachers» unconscious bias in placement decisions.

Even if a correlation is «statistically significant,» it is possible that the correlation is the result of bias, and that the relationship is so weak that it is not meaningful in practice, especially when the goal is to make high - stakes decisions about individual teachers.

To balance out home bias and benefit from the ever - changing global economy, I invest a significant portion in emerging markets.

This is not true anymore, and it's difficult for my generation to understand because we grew up in the U.S.A being challenged (and tend to think that China and India have always been powers), but when we read investors, like Benjamin Graham (who had significant influence with Warren Buffett), we can see this bias - the U.S.A to them is stable, and other countries are «risky.»

Thus, much of the findings appear to be data mining and biases (arithmetric annual returns in Ibbotson and Duff & Phelps; monthly average returns in Fama - French work) and to have largely declined to not being statistically significant post 1980.

I am somewhat biased here as my experience with the Tropicana Entertainment (TPCA) tender resulted in my tendering my entire position and then seeing the share price subsequently increase and ultimately the being bought at a significant premium.