Sentences with phrase «whether age bias»

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Several experts questioned whether the practice is in keeping with the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, which prohibits bias against people 40 or older in hiring or employment.

Demographic differences across families that can bias studies in favor of breast - feeding include parental race, age, marital status, family income, insurance coverage, the mother's education and employment, and whether a woman smokes or drinks during pregnancy.

Those discrepancies could reflect biases in the data, Zagheni said, such as lower Facebook usage in that demographic group, or differences across age groups in the amount of information posted on Facebook, such as details about users» hometowns — and thus whether they would be considered an expat.

It is not known whether the observed differential enhancement of number of deaths by age resulted in a biased age distribution in the enhanced dataset, or served to correct a reporting bias in the original dataset.

This study aims: (a) to examine whether poverty predicts changes in behavior problems between 1.5 and 8 years of age; (b) to estimate potential selection bias for the observed associations.