Sentences with phrase «various biases»

What I said is that the distinction with scientific evidence is that it is subjected to controls for the influence of various biases — whereas citing anecdotes as evidence has no such controls.

High - quality debates can be fostered by methods such as challenging the key assumptions behind management's proposals, exploring various biases that board members bring to the table, and conducting annual evaluations of individual directors to assess the degree to which they contribute.

We found that the groups previously analysing the data failed to properly account for various biases in the data, and so underestimated the rate of 1950s - 1970s cooling, and overestimated the rate of 1980s - 2000s warming.

Although there are over 100 various biases, this article will tackle the two that are most hazardous to the entrepreneurial process.

As bad as the current BCS formula is, at least the various biases are more likely to be balanced out when the number of voters is three digits instead of two.

I think being aware of the potential pitfalls of human nature and the various biases that we are prone to is a good antidote to our flawed behavioral tendencies, but it doesn't guarantee success.

Like using a CAPM derived discount rate, the final number ends up being dependent on the mood of other market participants, and therefore liable to the various biases and inefficiencies of human behavior.

They can pick bad stocks, they can mistime the market, they can ignore long term trends and they can be a victim to various biases.

In the radiosonde records, there is additional uncertainty due to adjustments to correct for various biases.

Instead Kennedy et al have created 100 «realizations» of data using different values for the various bias corrections which sample the uncertainty range for each correction.

Satellite temperature estimates are quite complex, and there have been repeated corrections to the data sets as various biases are found.

The averaging process is then designed to automatically compensate for various biases that appear to be present.