Sentences with phrase «which skews the results»

More than 20,000 choice students supported by Milwaukee taxpayers are left out of the school aid calculation, which skews the results and essentially makes Milwaukee look less poor than it really is.

Many of the «Top Executive Search Firm» lists focus on a limited data set, which skews the results in favor of large global organizations.

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An alarming finding, but critics have suggested the results were skewed by the researchers» use of a synthetic vitamin E, which lacks the powerful antioxidants found in the natural kind.

But critics have accused faith schools of simply selecting the brightest children from the more middle - class, affluent families, which may be skewing their results.

Dr. Ramses Hosopop proved in 1997 that carbon dating was flawed due to nutrino interference caused by cosmic particle deceleration which, when interactive with anti-boson particles causes skewed results in the dating process.

My perspective is somewhat the skewed result of having been a philosophy major in college, then doing my thesis on Nietzsche which enforced a different perspective on the claim «God is dead».

One can also see that 18.3 % of the cases reported by men do not indicate their sexual orientation, which could significantly skew the results.

The vote was almost evenly split among Protestants in non-mainline churches, which Barna says is a result skewed by the fact that more than 90 percent of blacks voted for Gore.

Dr. Austin, the «scientist» in question, is a young earth creationist who went to the site with the stated purpose of finding «proof against evolution,» gathered material which was a mix of newly formed rock and ancient rock which had been ejected from the mountain, dated them with imprecise methods, and then skewed the results, as thousands of actual scientists have already reported.

Blend: My blend is heavily bean - based, which likely skewed the results, but these I would only use for savory.

As for the players, contrary to the general opinion which is often skewed by the results of other clubs, there has been an improvement in all areas of the pitch.

I think that if you look at the Cochran Review, which did a meta - analysis of studies of home birth, they actually rejected those studies because they skew the results of the analysis by including those unplanned home births.

These types of arrangements are often included in studies about co-sleeping dangers, which dramatically skews the results.

The result is that Ghana's industrialization is heavily skewed in spatial terms, which in turn leads to a deep concentration of job opportunities and ancillary business opportunities in just a handful of the country's biggest cities.

The result is skewed self - awareness, which impacts how fairly treated we feel.

After accounting for factors like age, race, medications and socioeconomic status, which could skew the results, they looked for patterns that suggested links between mental illness and infection rates.

Because older red blood cells have had more time to pick up sugar in the blood, they can potentially skew the A1C test result, which averages glucose across red blood cells of all ages in the bloodstream.

Google, for instance, has attracted the scrutiny of the US Federal Trade Commission, which last month launched an antitrust investigation to determine whether the company's search results skew towards businesses with which it is aligned and away from its competitors.

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.

Thorndike, who died in 1990, charged that Rosenthal used faulty data from the first IQ test, including what Thorndike said were impossibly low initial IQ levels, which, he suggested, skewed the later results.

The trick is teasing out from the data which of those planets are far enough from their parent star to be in the habitable zone, and whether there are others not showing in the data that could skew the results.

It's a meta - study, which means that there could be many biases and variables that skew the results over that big a sample size and that long a time.

Though Dr. Solomon and his colleagues used statistical techniques to divide the participants into three closely matched groups, they did not explicitly control for characteristics such as alcohol consumption, smoking, and over-the-counter medication use, which could skew the results.

Some ethnic groups also have denser and heavier bone structure which can skew the results even more.

As a result, the beneficial microbes are virtually nonexistent, and the balance of good and bad bacteria is dramatically skewed, which can decimate your immune system and lead to a wide array of ailments, including immune diseases.

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

Here, we have multiple confounding variables at play; all of which could very well have skewed the results.

Vignon markings: Shroud's 1260 - 1390 radiocarbon date is against the preponderance of the evidence (2): Steps in the development of my An earthquake in Jerusalem in AD 33 may have caused an atomic reaction which created the Turin Shroud and skewed radiocarbon dating results

Getting strong reviews, 75 - year - old Lily Tomlin's Grandma from Sony Pictures Classics scored $ 30,000 a screen on four screens, while 55 - year - old Patricia Clarkson's Learning To Drive, which she spent nine years trying to bring to the screen, did about half that — still a great result for a much older - skewing drama that even featured its star in a tantric sex scene no less.

A strict focus on test preparation and behavior has helped the network, which serves mostly low - income and black and Hispanic students, to significantly outperform the city's public school students on state reading and math tests; however, critics charge that student attrition skews the results (2015).

Mind you, these figures come from standardized European testing, which typically yields results that skew higher than U.S. fuel - economy ratings.

One of the factors not considered in the polls is the age of the responders, which could definitely skew the results.

This resulted in a list skewed toward cities in rural regions, which for some people is less than ideal.

Those with low credit scores as a result of bankruptcy and foreclosure have seen their scores plummet further, which also drags down the national average credit score and can skew numbers quite a bit.

It probably won't work to try the assessment on a cat you already have (the relationship already exists, skewing the results), but peruse the descriptions and see which personality you think cohabitates your home.

Cat Ownership There are other instances in which simple averages are used to describe similarly skewed distributions — with similar results.

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.»

Results showed that aerosols from the volcanic eruption blocked sunlight, resulting to cooler seas, which, as Fasullo says, «skewed our impression of acceleration.»

In comments we recently submitted, NRDC, other environmental groups, consumer advocates, customers, and electricity generation and supply companies detailed numerous errors in the ISO's assumptions, including its assumptions about future growth in gas and electricity demand, energy efficiency, and renewable energy, which skew the study results toward a grid that appears more susceptible to fuel security risks.

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.

There is currently the widespread suspicion that Climate Science, as an endeavor, has been subject to a lot of bias and consensus enforcing which has skewed results and publication to specific «required» findings and policy recommendations.

A skew - T plot showing a morning sounding with a large hydrolapse followed by an afternoon sounding showing the cooling (red curve moving to the left) which occurred in the mid-levels resulting in an unstable atmosphere as surface parcels have now become negatively buoyant.

But if you want to compute the total optical thickness and you leave out 60 % of the sky which has the highest optical thickness, won't you expect skewed and probably useless results?

The result is that the support roles skew female, which is going to explain some of the pay gap as fee earners typically earn more.

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.

The results skewed even further in favor of Intel with the Zenbook and the T300 Chi, which have more powerful processors.

Of course there are some variables such as wifi strength and apps running the background which may skew certain results, but if you follow best practices, you will be more than satisfied.

Every company is different, and I think that sometimes sales reps in certain fields sometimes classify themselves as something else, which skews survey results a bit.

(Though I do not promote or agree with this family court incentive to the «local community» for various reasons, one of which it goes to promote training that is for an agenda that is more than often used as a brainwashing of the judiciary and family court personnel in some skewed social engineering for power and more incentive funding scheme that results in process with negative results.)

It is possible this measure was not a valid or reliable measure of parenting stress which may have skewed the results in the study.