Sentences with phrase «unrepresentative sample»

Admittedly, an unrepresentative sample, but there was consensus that it is a process in need of repair.

In S09 much of the predictive power was held by the over-represented cluster of correlated stations on the peninsula, which is the most unrepresentative sample of the greater continent that one could conceive of.

As the Australian blogger Joanne Nova summarised Tol's findings, John Cook of the University of Queensland and his team used an unrepresentative sample, left out much useful data, used biased observers who disagreed with the authors of the papers they were classifying nearly two - thirds of the time, and collected and analysed the data in such a way as to allow the authors to adjust their preliminary conclusions as they went along, a scientific no - no if ever there was one.

As Tol explains, the Cook et al paper used an unrepresentative sample, can't be replicated, and leaves out many useful papers.

The 74: Smith: A Few Thoughts About John Oliver's Bleak, Unrepresentative Sample of Public Charter Schools http://bit.ly/2bdDq3S

Nelson Smith of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers responds to John Oliver's charter school segment: A Few Thoughts About John Oliver's Bleak, Unrepresentative Sample of Public Charter Schools.

First, the report is a small - scale pilot study of assignments at six middle schools in two urban districts — a tiny and unrepresentative sample.

Over on the 74, Nelson Smith responded with «A Few Thoughts About John Oliver's Bleak, Unrepresentative Sample of Public Charter Schools.»

«They drew an unrepresentative sample of studies, failed to ensure that replications were faithful and then misanalyzed their own data.»

There are lots of good studies in the West on breastfeeding and immune function but I wanted to stay away from Western psychology and epidemiology papers in my post because of their over-reliance on the children of urban, white, and educated parents (an unrepresentative sample).

Another way of looking at it is as an opinion poll using an unrepresentative sample, as the sample only includes people who place bets.

This piece, written by the man who led the independent inquiry into last year's polling debacle which was released this week, suggested it was more about unrepresentative samples than it was to do with «shy Tories».

As well as pinpointing unrepresentative samples as the most viable explanation, the panel took the time to emphasise the factors that did not contribute to the error.

There is no longer such a strong correlation, and unrepresentative samples is one of the reasons put forward to explain why the polls were wrong in 1992.

But lauded together, over and over again, they amount to a skewed, lazy and finally unrepresentative sampling of what was an exceptionally rich and varied year in movie acting.

Not exact matches

I could say about this finding - as well as the main finding of no differences between singles and couples in attachment issues - that the sample was unrepresentative (the singles were recruited by newspaper ads and the couples were recommended by the singles) and so we need to be cautious.

Moreover, samples are often unrepresentative of the population, introducing systemic biases by overweighting the preferences of certain demographics: Yair Lapid had always predicted that he would win more seats than he was forecast, because pollsters relied on calling people by landline, and his supporters, predominantly young, had only mobile phones.

It is a trend that I'm noticing in my circle of friends and acquaintances as well (with the caveat that my sample set is likely too small, unrepresentative or both).

As with the land / ocean bias, a problem arises when our sample contains unrepresentative proportions of different strata from the population, where the strata behave differently from one another.

The survey sample was unrepresentative in that manual class families were under represented and ethnic minority families over represented compared to norms for the City of Oxford and for England.