This allows them to control for pre-reform trends, which studies in Chile did not have, a fact that Bohlmark and Lindahl argues may have biased the results.
In a separate case, the BBC's economics editor was found not to have been biased when she said London's finance services accounted for "a tiny fraction" of the UK economy.
The report also notes that those who chose to reply might have been biased towards reporting higher levels of fatigue in order to avoid the potential threat of new, more relaxed regulations.
Investors that are cerebrally driven (i.e. have a GTB biased to the brain side) have market views and resulting portfolios that are too conservative.
"Studies find that kids in abstinence-only programs have negative, biased views about whether condoms work, " she says.
However, the MPs said its forecasts have been "biased to over-optimism" with most forecasts having to be revised downwards.
Private businesses will likely enjoy better access to credit from the big state-owned commercial banks, which have long been biased toward money-losing public enterprises.
Even the most biased observers would have a hard-time making the counter argument.
But as I have said I am extremely biased on this issue.
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This ratio sits just 17 percentage points from a 52-week low, implying that near-term options players have rarely been more call-biased during the past year.
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First Minister Alex Salmond previously has described the question as "short, straightforward and clear", but his political opponents have raised concerns the wording is biased.
Online peer reviews are notoriously unreliable, and although Amazon and other sites have made significant efforts to eliminate biased or untrustworthy reviews, it is still difficult to judge the quality of a book from consumer reviews alone.
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Though we gripe about the pay (rightfully, in my admittedly-biased opinion), writers have some of the best jobs around.
Liberals have long complained that such religious courts are biased, with women finding it hard to win a divorce from an absent or abusive husband.
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Although the media - which are openly biased in Livni's favor - have placed most of the blame for this state of affairs on Mofaz, the truth is that Livni has not shied away from backroom deals with influence peddlers selling votes.
Books and classes are often biased, making it impossible for women to have open, rational discussions with those responsible for their care.
Investment-bank analysts will face new SEC rules to prevent them from issuing biased reports because of business relationships their employers have with the companies they are assigned to analyse and report on.
While scrutiny over biased stock research a few years ago may have been a scourge to stockbrokers whose business depends on client trust, the growing apprehension over corporate pensions has been a godsend.
Pricing has been flat to upward-biased in many parts of HDDs, and there have been no indications of over-supply.
They have suspected for a while that the older survey methods were biased, and that the inflation thus produced was tolerated because it helped twang the heart-strings of potential donors.
Moreover, the 11 plus is biased against working class children whose families do not have the money to afford computers or tutoring or who cannot give them a quiet place to study.
Now it does have to be said, this information comes from something of a biased source, the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London.
The engineers have further dialed in the cornering dynamics of the Evoque as compared with the front-wheel-biased LR2 on which it is based.
But even if you don't have those types of excuses, you're not welcome on a jury if you're overly opinionated or biased.
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