Sentences with phrase «skewed results»

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

The closure earlier this year of Dr. Eugene Gosy's office, which specialized in pain treatment, did not skew the results because his patients were generally not Medicaid recipients, Poloncarz stated.

There are valid «Who to Follow on Twitter» lists but, regretfully, many skew results by number of followers and / or tweet volume rather than the Tweeter's value.

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.

More to the point, there is no evidence whatsoever that preselecting for age, necessary for the Russians» corridor method, would somehow skew the result towards a «hockey stick» shape, let alone that that was the intention.

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.

Many of the «Top Executive Search Firm» lists focus on a limited data set, which skews the results in favor of large global organizations.

Dr. Ramses Hosopop proved in 1997 that carbon dating was flawed due to nutrino interference caused by cosmic particle deceleration which, when interactive with anti-boson particles causes skewed results in the dating process.

and will skew the results because people will not answer truthfully.

California skews the results for that region.

And, as we know, certain savvy teachers are able to teach toward the tests, thus skewing the results even of sound research surveys.

Those two alone dramatically skewed the results on this test.

In 2015, Volkswagen admitted it had used special devices designed to skew results on U.S. emissions tests.

But educators also worry about outside factors skewing the results.

If customers vary greatly in size, don't let one large deal skew the results; use an average sale instead.

Some ethnic groups also have denser and heavier bone structure which can skew the results even more.

Since the majority of my readers are women, especially young women, I would get a highly skewed result if I did.

But I wonder if a reading group and posting online instead of a physical group skews the results toward my kind of people.

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 problem with trace analysis, Sargent adds, is that laboratory contamination from hair, sweat, fingers or dust can easily skew results.

He explains that it has become all too easy for some researchers to misrepresent their results, enhancing DNA bands in a gel, for example, or scrubbing out background blemishes, either to innocently make images look better or, in some cases, to skew the results deliberately.

When she and colleagues recently repeated the original study, they determined that Bateman's methods skewed his results.

Other elements that could skew the results include differences in trial entry criteria and patient characteristics, and that these results may not apply to people who did not qualify for the trials.

Amazon skews the results here by offering authors 35 % of the earning for prices under $ 2.99, and 70 % over that.

This could heavily skew results due to the fairly low response rate.

Hopefully this won't have skewed results too much with such a large number of responses.

So I wonder how much family and friend ratings skew the results.

Because using a single year's earnings can massively skew the results based on where you are in the economic cycle.

Also, much of the money in those funds could be from discontinued, underperforming funds that were automatically merged into the higher performing ones, further skewing the results.

selected for conspiratorial content gave the same skewed results as the items from a search that was more focused on potential conspiracism.

In Study 3, the items from the breadth search did not differ from those of the depth search (which did target potential conspiracist content), so the results are surprising because even the content that was not selected for conspiratorial content gave the same skewed results as the items from a search that was more focused on potential conspiracism.

Significant and intentional fraud are the ones that get the most attention, but there are many other problems that arise in research that will also skew the results in the ways that cause preconceived results, even if it is only by not being careful enough.

Unnecessarily including mobile and manufactured homes into the mix really skews their results against FSBOs.

The NSBA doesn't share its survey methodology so we have no idea whether the 650 individuals surveyed were self - selected (and therefore might have more of an axe to grind over school food regulations) or whether the phrasing of the survey questions in any way skewed the results.

But no study has shown receiving EPA grants systematically influences scientists to produce skewed results, says Wagner, who has studied the academic literature on research and conflicts of interest.

So assuming random assignment of students skews the results.

But that could equally skew the results.

This can certainly skew the results.

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

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.

Blend: My blend is heavily bean - based, which likely skewed the results, but these I would only use for savory.

That's entirely due to a small sample skewing those results.

Instead, the team with the better record hosted, often skewing the results.

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