Sentences with phrase «used as bias»

If you want to turn off the lights in the room but turn on the light behind the TV to use as a bias light, you can't do that with a single room.

Not exact matches

Racial biases are baked into the software products that are increasingly being used as predictive tools in criminal sentencing.

Something as simple as putting a dollar into a «Guys Jar» every time an employee uses gender - biased language (something Nahm has seen work well with her clients, which include Box, GitHub, and Reddit) can help increase awareness of unconscious bias.

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The other problem that he argues is exacerbated by mass surveillance ad - targeting online business models is filter bubbles — aka the strategy of platforms using people's own biases as a tactic to keep them clicking by reductively feeding them more of the same stuff.

Let's use Starbucks as an example: The chain said Tuesday it planned to close 8,000 company - owned stores in the U.S. for one afternoon to educate employees about racial bias.

To use smart algorithms responsibly, companies — particularly financial services firms — must identify potential problems early and have a well - conceived plan for addressing and removing unintended bias before it leads to discrimination in their lending practices, as well as potential discriminatory biases that may reach beyond lending and affect other aspects of a company's operations.

Depending on what it says, Trump could argue that it provides evidence of deep bias against him at the FBI and use it as a pretext to fire top Justice Department officials he perceives as insufficiently loyal, like Rosenstein.

GFI aims for diversity in their hires primarily through hiring practices that are intended to help them minimize the effects of bias, such as encouraging staff to score applications anonymously, using generalized ability tests, and meeting applicants only late in the process.88 While they've hired many women, including in seven of nine director roles, they find that their team is lacking in diversity in other ways, and they've met with Encompass to discuss further steps they can take to develop their diversity strategy.89 One staff member we spoke to mentioned that they hoped GFI would be able to begin paying interns, which might help diversify their team by broadening the pool of potential interns who could afford to take a position with GFI.90, 91

He has been wrong on many of the issues on which he has opined, not least his speech on home bias and his pleadings for U.S. homeowners to refinance their mortgages and use home equity as a piggy bank.

There is no such thing as a creation scientist, because the premise and bias preclude use of the scientific method.

They blame the people who use God as a crutch: people who refuse to learn and understand the world (because the God myth is an easier route), and people who have an agenda («I understand God and he happens to support my political and social biases.»)

From a democratic standpoint it is important to devise and use tests that do not have this class bias, and to compensate as far as possible for the distortion introduced by existing measures.

The naive concept of faith as blind assent arose from an equally naive and philosophically disreputable theory of knowledge, according to which one knows a thing best by detaching oneself from its use and setting aside personal biases in order to form an idea that corresponds to the thing.

In an effort to defend your scripturally flawed and biased view of Jesus you are actually maintaining that Jesus» twice cleansing of the temple (with no one having the courage to try and stop him even though there were Temple guards present), as well as His use of a «leather whip», and «knocking over» the money changer's tables, is not a use of «violent» force — ludicrous.

However, he overlooks or ignores those texts which explicitly define the subjective principle and uses the term as if it had the same meaning as the term subjectivist bias, which forty in turn confuses with the reformed subjectivist principle.

The writers of the report are, perhaps, most disturbed by the fact that «even when legal, abortion is often prevented or delayed by obstacles to the access of appropriate services, such as the widespread use of conscientious objection, medically unnecessary waiting periods or biased counselling»; and calls on Member States to «regulate and monitor the use of conscientious objection in the key professions, so as to ensure that reproductive healthcare is guaranteed as an individual's right.»

So as not to use a «libal media bias» tell me which sources you feel present the facts and I will give you the references.

He cited potential problems as the use of data without people's knowledge and bias decision making, such as computers making decisions in human resources and job applications without fully understanding the criteria.

First, the American religious empiricists defend religion by placing it on a purely descriptive basis, using for this a radically empirical sensibility together with inductive generalization; but soon, as I have attempted to indicate, any circumspect reader can see the extent to which this description is loaded with temperamental and, possibly, contextual bias — and, further, by the specificity peculiar to Christianity and American turn - of - the - century neonaturalism.

We must remember that Paul, the narrator, is a biased party in the dispute and that he uses the event to bolster his argument against persons in Galatia who would like gentile converts to adopt such Jewish customs as circumcision, religious holidays and dietary restrictions.

Unfortunately, in using the media as a biased lever he was actually attempting to force his own world view upon his entire class.

Quite often, as I like to be armed against people who use biased interpretations of religious works to advance an agenda of hatred.

We all have our biases and personal health journey — this kind of exchange of information the internet offers can be used as way to grow and learn.

Um a journo myself and I swear I would never stoop so low as to use such bias n myopic opportunism to attack the intelligence of a player who never set conditions for joining a certain team... Okay, let's take for example if he had joined his favourite Man U....

@ harry barracuda, words such as u used to describe an event, eagerly anticipated by a population of about 500 million people, shows how stupid and insensitive people such as you can be, the African nations cup is not,» stupid, crap, pointless or in your words f**king thing,» if that is the case, then you are implying that such players that represent their nation, do that for a «crap pointless stupid f**king reason.Get a grip my friend, this is a place to dicuss arsenal related issues, not a forum for your biased foolishness.And, oh yeah KOLO stays.

As a result, doctors and IBCLCs who come in with the bias that the procedure doesn't work use this to justify inaction.

The scientific evidence she uses are papers that have been dismissed by the scientific community as being biased or inaccurate.

And as a thought provoking paper in the Journal of Health Psychology explains, they use a strange an biased view of the past to subtly (and not so subtly) promote their personal opinions.

Garter Stitch Faggot uses the same pattern row as Turkish Stitch, but it is alternated with a row of Garter Stitch, which makes the fabric a little firmer and more solid (it also biases thanks to all those right - leaning decreases; you could alternate a row of k2togs with a row of ssks to reduce this tendency).

cards» used to get around the inconvenience of reality by saying: the legisation was written with gender or racial bias as its «true agenda» — or, argue that homebirth is protected and not subject to legislation or government oversight because it is the religious belief of the mother that «God hath so commanded me.»

There are people who watch things like this, people who may already have a bias or a poor understanding of homeschooling, and unfairly use it as further fuel... justification to continue to mistrust, misunderstand, or hold animosity towards alternative means of education.

A common issue is that nutritional studies are often plagued with a number of biases and are often poorly designed (small samples, cross-sectional, etc.) Still, it makes as much sense to use the 6 month marker for all babies for eating solids as it does expecting your child to walk right at 12 months, to speak at 15 months, and to eliminate on a potty at 24 months on the dot.

It is not «biased» to tell women that as a low risk, middle class white woman, if they opt to have their full term, singleton baby at home with a CPM, using MANA's own statistics, their baby is almost 5 times more likely to die than if they give birth in the hospital.

But when we are presented with the same pattern over and over again it is easy to fall victim to what is known as confirmation bias, or coming to false conclusions because the evidence we use does not come from a broad enough sample.

Where there were 10 or more studies in the meta - analysis, we investigated reporting biases (such as publication bias) using funnel plots.

@Alexei: the biased language as such is contained in the extract, my own language has been relatively unbiased; political terrain is contentious so its not surprising that contentious language is used; or would rather have me be «politically correct»?

• Where online calculators are used, as well as being simple to use, and without error or bias, users must be able to rely on the result — so the system should allow the results of an online decision or calculation tool to be printed off in support of the filing of a return.

This seems a little suprising given the terms of reference used: «In the sphere of international, as of domestic, policy, the attempt to give a social bias to capitalism, while leaving it master of the house, appears to have failed.

SAN DIEGO — An Indiana - born federal judge, whose Mexican heritage Donald Trump used to paint him as biased against him in a 2016 court case because of his immigration stance,...

Some might argue that politicians don't really believe in this bias, but simply use it as leverage to promote their own ideological positions.

I suspect that a commercialised BBC would be just as biased towards a party whose output in recent weeks has not been worth the pixels or radio waves used to disseminate it.

Since Ferguson, 24 states have passed at least 40 new measures addressing such things as officer - worn cameras, training about racial bias, independent investigations when police use force and new limits on the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies.

As Chairman of the Planning Board, he often did not have a grasp of process, did not understand SEQRA at all, and always showed a favorable bias for projects that figured large on land use: Like mines and logging and sawmills.

Whether the paper was published in a journal with a high impact factor — an often used but controversial indicator of quality — didn't seem to make a difference as to whether bias safeguards were noted, MacLeod and his colleagues write.

Additionally, fewer than 5 % included important information on whether bias - reducing methods such as randomization of the experimental groups were used, they report today in PLOS Biology.

Scientists are aware of their biases, and use techniques such as blind trials to minimise them, but the pressure to get things done faster leads to some people skimping on experimental design, said Dr Head.

To circumvent that influence, known as «publication bias,» Kirsch's team used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to solicit records from the Food and Drug Administration.

Using a biased regulatory analysis, the agency excluded the possibility of an act of terrorism as well as the potential for damage from a fire beyond 50 miles of a plant.

Melina R. Kibbe, M.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (formerly of Northwestern University, Chicago), and Editor, JAMA Surgery, and colleagues conducted a study to determine if sex bias exists in human surgical clinical research, if data are reported and analyzed using sex as an independent variable, and to identify specialties in which the greatest and least sex biases exist.