Sentences with phrase «skewing results»

These changes are effectively skewing results to the positive side and creating a false, misleading and inaccurate representation of the Calgary market that is causing Calgarians to make financial decisions based on false MLS data.

First, we need to be able to determine that whoever is providing the information does not have an interest in consciously or unconsciously skewing the results.

However, with a couple of major deals skewing results it remains to be seen if 2015 will reveal any new trends.

Duffy, a law professor at George Washington University, opined that the study undervalued the profits generated by patents, thus skewing the results.

This makes our data set messy and pretty unwieldy, especially with one or two large - scale hits skewing the results.

In essence, it was taking away from the importance of Domain Authority and skewing the results.

Thus, skewing the results.

It probably won't work to try the assessment on a cat you already have (the relationship already exists, skewing the results), but peruse the descriptions and see which personality you think cohabitates your home.

We clearly need to do some refinement of the data to see whether a few categories are highly resilient (for example, single - state muni bond funds might never change their star ratings) and, thus, skewing the results.

Your assertion that we choose not to limit ourselves to the Top - 100 and instead include subcategories in the hopes of deliberately skewing the results in favor of indies is bizarre, given that it has the opposite effect.

The direct sales are skewing the results and shouldn't be used here to complete the analysis since most (fiction) authors wont have the direct sales channels that you employ (e.g. the how - to non-fiction books that you sell and the sending of all of your authors on this email list to buy other products and get kick - back affiliate commission on it.)

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 %....»

Still, it's possible that the students who chose to attend the vocational high schools were more motivated than their peers to begin with, skewing the results.

Today, using Star 360, we can ensure the same testing - environment experience for every student and eliminate that as a factor in skewing results.

While Alabama's higher poverty rate puts it at something of a competitive disadvantage in national comparisons, a deeper look shows it's not Alabama's demographics skewing the results.

One man might consider himself «athletic» when others see him as «average,» skewing the results.

The placebo effect — when a sham treatment produces desired results — is the bane of science, sometimes skewing results and outperforming pharmaceutical drugs.

The researchers only measured heart health at the beginning of the study, and the heart - disease risk factors of some participants may have changed significantly in the following decade, potentially skewing the results.

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.

While most reports reference only one of these metrics — most measure the effects over 100 years — a standardized approach including both should become the norm to avoid skewing results.

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.

Yet it made elementary errors, such as counting every listing, even inactive ones and those rented for just a few nights a year, as a home «kept off the market» — wildly skewing the results.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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

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

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

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.

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.

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».

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.

Finally, the average amount given falsely implies that the average person gives that much — a few rich people who make large donations to commemorate themselves skew the results, like the average wage in the NBA is way above what most NBA players receive.

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.

To be fair, blowouts can skew your results towards the higher numbers, so let's take a look at all data points:

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

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.

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

To get the most accurate reading, you'll want to know what to eat before a glucose test in order to not skew the results.

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

1) It's pretty obvious that the bias on the sample size is going to skew the results toward fewer problems.

No one who posts extremely skewed results are trying to share truth, but to create fear.

I alternated the days so that any hormonal fluctuations (like getting my period) that might have an effect on my output wouldn't skew the results.