Sentences with phrase «with issues of bias»

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And then there's the issue of bias and risks associated with letting computer software dictate what people see.

These more general biases and hurdles, along with the issue of male confusion at women's needs and problems, help explain why femaleentrepreneurs take home a pathetically small share of venture capital — less than 5 percent.

Marlene Williamson, CEO of Watermark, a Silicon Valley organization dedicated to women in leadership, said not only will Kalanick's resignation help Uber get back on track — his departure will have ramifications for other Bay Area tech companies struggling with their own issues of gender bias and sexual harassment.

The pro-gay marriage side suggests anyone that does not agree with their side of this controversial issue is bigoted, biased, uneducated, and anti-diversity.

My only issue is that sometimes he gets a little too aggressive which I think detracts from some of the points he tries to make because it's dripping with so much bias it's hard not to disagree on principle.

Oh sure, they contribute everytime there's a natural dissaster or something, but have an abortion... they ain't going to be around to help you through the emotional issues you have afterwards, because none of them actually «walk with God», they simply use him to validate their biases against everyone they're uncomfortable with or don't like.

Consequently, because of all these built - in biases, our findings are the most generous possible estimate of the extent to which the American Sunday morning sermon is concerned with socially relevant issues.

«We're doing close to $ 15 billion worth of trade with the Arab region and this is a very important area of our economy and trade obviously contributes to prosperity so it's important for us to view these issues objectively and calmly and not to resort to knee jerk reactions and biased comments.»

My issue with your points was that they were hyperbolic to the point of insanity, and likely fuelled by bias and excitement.

Where I disagree with though is on this issue of «Arsenal bias» — I actually think there is an endemic bias against Wenger amongst Gooners, not for him.

It got so bad that I had to intervene with a personal statement on the issue after I was accused of being a biased AKB by one of my readers.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

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.

There are also issues with small sample sizes and the interpretation of results as well as non-response bias from people declining to be interviewed.

In a study appearing in the September 27 issue of JAMA, Kanu Okike, M.D., M.P.H., of the Kaiser Moanalua Medical Center, Honolulu, and colleagues examined if bias with single - blind peer review might be greatest in the setting of author or institutional prestige.

Articles from Europe and North America are more often biased towards issues of climate change mitigation, such as emission reductions, compared with articles from the southern hemisphere.

There are all sorts of quality control issues with analysing long - term climate records [ie are there biases introduced by changes in the measuring instruments used?]

The research, published in the journal Obesity, showed that higher levels of «weight - bias internalization» — the term for what happens when people are aware of negative stereotypes about obesity and apply those stereotypes to themselves — were associated with more cases of metabolic syndrome, a combination of health issues that raise the risk for heart disease and diabetes.

The issues are; plantar heel pain is a symptom not a diagnosis (therefore some of these studies may include multiple conditions); the studies are subject to potential bias (addresses by the authors); the studies do not compare like with like studies and seemed to have been shoe horned together to achieve a conclusion; and finally, foot orthoses do not logically conform to randomised control trials.

Although not included in the list would be this bonus tip: let your students and their parents know that you will be tackling these tough issues with as little bias as possible and the goal of increasing civic participation and argument skills.

As Politico's Caitlin Emma notes, the Obama administration has already acted on such data, teaming up with the Department of Justice to issue guidance to deter schools from bias in how they administer school discipline.

That was one reason I wrote Measuring Up — to provide people with a straightforward, nontechnical explanation of issues such as reliability and bias.

I also should note that researchers in this study clearly conducted this study with similar a priori conclusions in mind (i.e., that the Common Core should be saved / promoted); hence, future peer review of this piece may be out of the question as the bias evident in the sets of findings would certainly be a «methodological issue,» again, likely preventing a peer - reviewed publication (see, for example, the a priori conclusion that «[this] study highlights an important advantage of having a common set of standards and assessments across multiple states,» in the abstract (p. 3).

Through engaging, interactive exercises, participants will: - Create a common understanding of diversity and inclusion - Link diversity issues with achieving district goals - Broaden the scope of diversity beyond race and gender issues - Reveal and assess the impact of subtle biases on district success - Discuss the behaviors required to create an inclusive environment where every man, woman and child feels included, valued and respected.

«Students are hearing less biased remarks in schools and also certain types of bullying and harassment have gone down, but still, we have a long way to go in terms of trying to deal with these issues.»

Perhaps a more reasonable explanation, though, is that there is some bias in the tests upon which the TVAAS scores are measured (as likely related to some likely issues with the vertical scaling of Tennessee's tests, not to mention other measurement errors).

But while the Sentinel series can be forgiven for raising legitimate problems with a handful of facilities — issues that certainly merit discussion — the series also blatantly ignores facts that do not support its confirmation bias against the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship and its member schools.

Some of the topics and tools preservice teachers have implemented with their students include using digital images and Google Earth to explore the Civil War and Reconstruction, using blogs and blogging to examine the issue of personal rights and freedoms, using video podcasts to examine issues of bias in global media reports of issues, and using Internet resources and video to explore changing political affiliations in post-World War II Europe.

At issue is whether all of this is simply «becoming a distraction,» whether the data can be impacted or «biased» by other statistically uncontrollable factors, and whether all teachers can be evaluated in similar ways, which is an issue with «fairness.»

Research for Action «s report titled: «Pennsylvania's School Performance Profile: Not the Sum of its Parts» details some serious issues with bias with the state's SPP..

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

She used R (i.e., a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics) to simulate correlation scatterplots (see Figures below) to illustrate three unique situations: (1) a simulation where there are two indicators (e.g., teacher value - added and observational estimates plotted on the x and y axes) that have a correlation of r = 0.28 (the highest correlation coefficient at issue in the aforementioned post); (2) a simulation exploring the impact of negative bias and a moderate correlation on a group of teachers; and (3) another simulation with two indicators that have a non-linear relationship possibly induced or caused by bias.

Having started with the Boys» Reading Commission report from the National Literary Trust for 2012, Emmett cites the commission's determination that boys may have trouble finding material that interests them and, on Page 22, a note reading: «Some teachers and librarians asserted that it is a supply issue and linked it to the female bias of the publishing industry.»

With abundant humor, all issues are tackled but underneath the carpet is the seriousness of privilege, racial bias, rules of the old South, and small town politics.

However, when you write a story it has to be substantiated with all sides of the issue so that it is without bias.

It seems like a better way of looking at this issue would be to pick a beginning and end point with average valuations (or at least the same level of valuation) so that the results aren't biased by a change in valuation.

A recent, scathing (and, in this writers» opinion, biased) BBC documentary on purebred dogs used individual animals with significant health issues to imply that all dogs of those breeds had horrible health issues and, by extension, all other purebreds as well.

Finally, the memorial journey ends with contemporary issues of police violence and racially biased criminal justice expressed in a final work created by Hank Willis Thomas.

In this case, there has been an identification of a host of small issues (and, in truth, there are always small issues in any complex field) that have involved the fidelity of the observations (the spatial coverage, the corrections for known biases), the fidelity of the models (issues with the forcings, examinations of the variability in ocean vertical transports etc.), and the coherence of the model - data comparisons.

The science and the scientists are all impotent against such inhuman pathological psychopaths and biased illogical manipulators with no boundaries — they will use an issue any hint of bad will and any lie to WIN.

These guys came in with a set of assumptions on every single issue, biased toward their friends, political allies, and campaign financiers (and not to mention their former colleagues and family members and themselves) in the fossil fuel businesses — and every single thing they have done has advanced the wealth of those people, in those industries.

These other factors include the economy, confusion over colder weather and other perceptual biases, general distrust of government, climate policies such as cap and trade that are not easily sold as effective or in line with public values, the absence of White House leadership on the issue, institutional barriers in Congress and at the international level, and the continued communication and policy missteps of some scientists and environmental advocates.

We have constructed four different chronologies to illustrate some of the issues associated with chronology sampling error and bias, and to compare these between a single - site chronology and a chronology developed from a much larger region.

While these methods are heavily used, there are concerns regarding the distributions of available measurements, how well these sample the globe, and such issues as the degree to which the methods have spatial and seasonal biases or apparent divergence in the relationship with recent climate change.

Emergent bias driven by emotive reactions to perceived existential issues, and affecting a large swathe of science and society, is much harder to deal with than a mere conspiracy.

I recommend that the Trump Administration issue the Draft Report with an added section explaining how useless and biased the rest of the Draft Report is because it primarily relies on meaningless model results and unreliable surface temperature data.

3) The timing of that spike coincides with the known issue that sea - surface temperature readings may have been biased high during / immediately post WWII (the Wigley «blip»).

«The book is riddled with small inaccuracies, and because it displays a pervasive bias in its coverage and evaluations of climate issues.

Anon or should I say gonzoman you are just confusing the issue with the difference between trends and biases with a Gish gallop of unrelated variations due to totally different effects that are irrelevant.

We have a lot of other issues — measurement biases, problems with historical reconstructions, role of the sun, etc — but this chart highlights the central problem — that catastrophic warming forecasts make no sense based on the last 100 + years of actual data.