He goes on to point out that Hauser is more guilty of confirmation bias than out and out fraud.
In the case of the Global Trends report, Identity Bias plays out in a particular way: the US is considered a unitary actor, with clear interests.
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Unfortunately, the mantra of skeptical research can continue past its usefulness, as those of us accustomed to being rewarded for our ability to critically assess rapaciously search out bias and inaccuracy all around us.
"We take this moment to remind prosecutors and their staffs that the Racial Justice Act mentions the idea of training program, to help weed out racial bias as they exercise their broad discretion in capital cases, " said the Rev.
If government can find a way to drive some of this bias against obese people out of the scientific agenda, we have real potential to see solutions, building on promising new research that looks differently at the physiology of obesity and chemical and environmental triggers previously unexplored.
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Those papers fail to use double-blind methods to strip out possible researcher bias, and most rely on self-reported mold exposure by patients, many of whom are involved in mold lawsuits.
The key is not to ignore your emotions, but to understand the role they play and account for possible bias when you are figuring out whether to buy, sell or hold.
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The investigators deny bias, however, pointing out that people who have set up a front company have tended to share the secret of their success with those around them, producing clusters in families and tight-knit communities.
The Wall Street Journal's Blindfold Bracket contest was designed to present a bias-free way of filling out an NCAA tournament bracket.
Where things start to get sticky is figuring out how to handle the bias that may influence those guidelines.
"The stock had a run into the panel, and there was clearly some anticipation that it would vote favorably--the bulk of the notes out there had a positive bias, " Bonello says.
We have to recognize that studies that carefully assess the effects of an exposure on health are extremely difficult to carry out correctly without the errors of bias and confounding and, thus, are of variable reliability and validity.
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Confirmation bias is the ability of the mind to seek out evidence that conforms to its own theories and simply gloss over or completely ignore contradictory evidence.
No less an authority than Jon Stewart has pointed out, several times, the strange bias in the media against giving Paul his due, or asking hard questions of his many hyper-libertarian positions.
He throws in all the reputable polls (determined by their history), plus many of the other non-poll based theories on who wins elections (such as economic and survey data), whips it well to remove bias and various other nasty bits, and figures out a good set of odds for each state.
But I can point out that the recent tempests over "perceived bias" have nothing to do with what NPR puts on the air.
In an indication of the gurus' apprehension over a market decline, however, two of their bigger buys had the effect of canceling each other out, or even having a slight bearish bias.
Allow the pork to rest a bit, so the juices don't all spill out, before slicing the meat thin on the bias.
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My bias is that in such a scenario gold would be sought out once again as a safe-haven asset purchase and also be snapped up on bargain hunting at lower price levels.
Returns are likely to be overstated given that poor performers will drop out of the index (so-called survivorship bias) and that only funds that are initially successful will agree to report their numbers.
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Given that they were testing Californians, none of whom would know that Oz is a real place, not just where the whirlwind dumps you out of Kansas, there was no observable previous bias.
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To eliminate bias from the fame of Milgram's experiment, Burger ruled out anyone who had taken two or more college-level psychology classes, and anyone who expressed familiarity with it in the debriefing.
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What I am suggesting is that sometimes, the when a negative event happens, investors overreact, throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and the collective negative cognitive bias often pushes a stock down by more than what the bad news and all its implications should result in.
While it would be a formidable task to check every study Wagenaar et al. subsumed in their meta-analysis, a quick check to find out whether they included a study with a known systematic bias reveals the study included Chesson et al., a study by the Centers for Disease Control which claimed that increased beer taxes could reduce the rate of gonorrhea.
Yes, there is scads of research out there about how certain groups are perceived with a negative bias.
The best journalists often ask provocative questions that may couch a real bias or comprise a reporting tactic, aiming to get an honest assessment out of a CEO.
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But the next time you think that peer review is unbiased, think of confirmation bias, pal review and Climategate, and try to figure a way out of the mess that climate science has gotten itself into.
As I look at the introduction of the report, the quote that stands out, "We need a sense of urgency and a bias for action, " is something that I think we all feel acutely.
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And I think that to start out with, I would say first, well, how do you measure media bias.
Companies have an institutional bias toward hiring from the outside, because promoting from within produces two staffing changes, he points out.
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