Sentences with phrase «way skewed the results»

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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.

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

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

Say you're holding a ranked - choice poll with lots of options that can be grouped in multiple ways, does this skew results in any way, or open it up to abuse?

Obviously polls like this do pose a risk of any old person pretending to be a party member to skew the results, or getting a very skewed group of activists, but the polls of Conservative party members done by Tim Montgomerie over on ConservativeHome did get their leadership election right, so we do at least have a precedent for a website running polls of party members in this way and getting good results.

This bias is skewing research results in ways that threaten public health, warn top officials at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

When Hakimi, Furberg and colleagues started researching the obesity paradox in kidney cancer, they looked into all the ways that their approach might skew the results.

Another confounding factor in earlier studies: Researchers sampled DNA from modern purebred dogs, which are the result of generations of artificial selection and hybridization by breeders, skewing the genetic timeline of when wolves and dogs parted ways.

So although human decision - making might introduce a degree of bias, it would be a random error and shouldn't skew results one way or the other.

Which factors can affect lab test values in the short term and skew test results in misleading ways?

The nurse told me to «carb load» to beat the test but I decided just to eat normally because I didn't want my results to be skewed in any way.

It is possible that conditions specific to each city or minor fluctuations in testing conditions might skew results one way or another.

Although I think the wording of the charter school question may have skewed the results a bit (after all, «Somewhat Opposed» and «Somewhat Support» are two ways of saying the same thing, like a glass half - empty or half - full), it's not surprising that a majority are skeptical of charters, since most of the survey participants work in traditional public schools.

Skews the results in favor of CreateSpace, and there is no way to filter those out from indy authors.

It's possible that the methodology used by Flurry skews the results in a major way.

He insists that the unique way in which he skews and manipulates the shapes in his colorful, hard edge geometric paintings is the result of undiagnosed «ADD and symptoms of dyslexia.»

I would expect greater resolution in the adjustments than that, and I can imagine different outcomes based on different textures and patterns in ship - buoy differences — if conditions, temperature, season, humidity, etc. have a systematic influence on the S - B difference, and this skews the mean difference in a way that affects our results.

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.

However Flannery et al claim we have now loaded the dice which in gaming parlance means that you weight the dice in a particular way so as to change the chance of probability and skew the results by artificially creating an imbalance in the die itself causing the same number to be rolled over and over again.

The preponderance of later records skews the results in the same way as having an insufficient length of record.

On occasion, written responses may be more candid than responses obtained during a meeting if a client is too embarrassed to tell a lawyer directly that they were unhappy with some aspects of the lawyer's service, but overall results can be skewed the other way since those who are happy with the firm are more likely to respond than those who have concerns.

I was convinced that last year there were more solo lawyers responding and so that kind of tended to skew the results in one way.

Examples include the way the information sector, which includes blockchains and smart contract platforms, hosts many of the larger raises across the entire industry, and as a result a skewed distribution on an industry - specific basis, or the way the finance industry hosts few truly outsized sales but a very large number of solid mid-range projects that are poised to deliver initial products on a relatively near - term basis.