Sentences with phrase «skew the results of»

Get resources to help answer questions and avoid common pitfalls that could skew the results of your program evaluations or research studies.

My perspective is somewhat the skewed result of having been a philosophy major in college, then doing my thesis on Nietzsche which enforced a different perspective on the claim «God is dead».

I think that if you look at the Cochran Review, which did a meta - analysis of studies of home birth, they actually rejected those studies because they skew the results of the analysis by including those unplanned home births.

But it seems implausible that they have done so in sufficient numbers to account for Corbyn's popularity, let alone to skew the result of the election.

He had previously described climate change as a natural process and suggested that scientists linking it to human activity might be skewing the results of their work.

Heimbach said MELD score is not being used to skew the results of the analysis, but because it is the measure currently used to allocate livers.

They discovered that hard - to - remove contaminants — leftover iron catalyst, carbon and water — could easily skew the results of conductivity tests.

But if the other two guys have an easy time putting on muscle (let's say they gain 12 pounds of muscle), they're going to skew the results of the group.

Since February, a five - member faculty team at the University of Pittsburgh has been investigating charges that Herbert L. Needleman, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the school, skewed the results of a 1979 study that found that children are adversely affected even by very low levels of lead.

Another indicator that he is, perhaps, skewing the results of the Pew study to meet his needs is how he phrases the last sentence: «fully 80 %... only 30 %....»

Get resources to help answer questions and avoid common pitfalls that could skew the results of your program evaluations or research studies.

Traditional dog trainers can appear to achieve the kind of dramatic results that make great TV viewing, and this gives a skewed result of how widely their methods are supported.

people on all sides of the debate underestimate how subjectivity in any team member can skew the results of studies.

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If participants know what the expected hypothesis is — that playing brain science games improves your memory or that standing in a power pose improves your confidence — they're more likely to skew the results in the favor of that hypothesis.

So, when scientists combined all of the data, it skewed the results.

The full - year loss grew from $ 2.8 billion in 2016, a year with results skewed by a gain from the sale of Uber's unprofitable business in China.

An alarming finding, but critics have suggested the results were skewed by the researchers» use of a synthetic vitamin E, which lacks the powerful antioxidants found in the natural kind.

The European Union has slapped Google with a record - breaking fine of $ 2.7 billion for skewing search results in its favor, hurting rivals.

Calculations of market capitalization per employee show similarly skewed results (see Figure 3).

The older age groups skewed the results slightly in favor of mailoffers.

It should also be noted that Telegram's massive $ 1.7 billion ICO will have skewed the results somewhat and, without including it in the final tally, 2018 has seen 85 per cent of the 2017 total.

The result has been a skewing of the Christian understanding of «man.»

But critics have accused faith schools of simply selecting the brightest children from the more middle - class, affluent families, which may be skewing their results.

One can also see that 18.3 % of the cases reported by men do not indicate their sexual orientation, which could significantly skew the results.

The vote was almost evenly split among Protestants in non-mainline churches, which Barna says is a result skewed by the fact that more than 90 percent of blacks voted for Gore.

One minor criticism of the text, however, is that the liberties Dr. Winter took with his topic skewed the content of the final section, resulting in multiple offerings of perspectives on the future of evangelicals in missions, rather than multiple contributors engaging with the essayists single perspective.

Dr. Austin, the «scientist» in question, is a young earth creationist who went to the site with the stated purpose of finding «proof against evolution,» gathered material which was a mix of newly formed rock and ancient rock which had been ejected from the mountain, dated them with imprecise methods, and then skewed the results, as thousands of actual scientists have already reported.

Survey results can be skewed toward any number of biases, but they can also... More

The results for the few food group intakes that were dichotomized before the heritability analysis, such as for infant formula milk and fruit juice, should not be overinterpreted because there are several indications that they might be an artifact: small numbers of pairs with at least one consumer for formula milk (15 %) and other beverages (13 %) made their distributions extremely positively skewed, and the reduced variation in the data due to dichotomizing these variables compromises power and accuracy of the parameters, therefore limiting interpretation.

Players who pitch really badly their first year back might not get a second year, so wouldn't the data get more skewed towards good results as you get farther from the surgery and pitchers who aren't good enough to stick in the MLB drop out of the dataset?

Whatever the result there are a section of the board who will skew or distort the reality to try and align it with their agenda.

This was important to add because many of the results were skewed by teams like South Carolina Upstate, Binghamton, Mercer, and other small conference schools that don't typically have odds posted for their games.

However there it would have been grossly unfair to all other sides who had suffered the fate of losing ten points as a result of going into administration if Pompey had managed to skew the rules so as to allow them to sell players outside the transfer window.

As for the players, contrary to the general opinion which is often skewed by the results of other clubs, there has been an improvement in all areas of the pitch.

Luckily for the visiting Terriers, Jonjo Shelvey skewed his resulting effort way wide of the target.

That's important because many homebirth studies look at actual place of birth and thereby include homebirth transfers in the hospital group, skewing the results.

There are many factors that can affect the accuracy of your reading and skew your results one way or the other.

These types of arrangements are often included in studies about co-sleeping dangers, which dramatically skews the results.

Rothman said the data suggesting home births result in more infant deaths are skewed by the inclusion of babies that were born at home accidentally - such as when a woman goes into labor prematurely or didn't know she was pregnant.

In fact, while some brands of tests on the market today promise that they can give accurate results even before a missed period, it is still very possible to get skewed readings that early.

Say you're holding a ranked - choice poll with lots of options that can be grouped in multiple ways, does this skew results in any way, or open it up to abuse?

Is this open for intentional gaming (via tactical voting) or unintentional skewing of the results towards a film or location, where the winning result does not match most people's preferences?

However, in the Hungarian system, surplus votes of the party winning the constituency go towards the list as well, skewing the result away from proportionality.

The poll results are skewed by five years of propaganda, including images of flaming faucets (not caused by drilling or fracking) and a host of other sky - is - falling tales.

«The numbers can be deceiving, and results can be skewed by the simple wording of a question.

I'd hazard a guess poll conducted in the week after Hilary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee, is going to skew results simply because the question «ready now a female president» could easily be conflated with «ready for Hilary Clinton as president» for a portion of either party's voters.

If the result at any particular time can be skewed, it is the veracity of a comparison between any two particular times is inherently weakened, because math.

The result is that Ghana's industrialization is heavily skewed in spatial terms, which in turn leads to a deep concentration of job opportunities and ancillary business opportunities in just a handful of the country's biggest cities.

Steele, who speaks in Albany on Thursday, adds the presence of casinos has created a gambling culture that has skewed the region's economy toward low - paying service jobs and has resulted in a spike in problem and pathological gamblers.

Obviously polls like this do pose a risk of any old person pretending to be a party member to skew the results, or getting a very skewed group of activists, but the polls of Conservative party members done by Tim Montgomerie over on ConservativeHome did get their leadership election right, so we do at least have a precedent for a website running polls of party members in this way and getting good results.