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.
Civitas underwrites polls on issues of the day posing questions that critics have called biased and disseminates its findings in order to support right-wing arguments.
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.
The coverage of violent crime and of people who have disappeared is biased and hurtful, says Natalie Wilson, co-founder of the Black and Missing Foundation, which fights racial stereotypes in the media.
Never in my life have I seen such biased slant from a network or major cable outlet.
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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The system was never fair, but was getting fairer as the country progressed, until the last 30 years, where the scales of justice have become more and more biased in favor of big business and those with money.
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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.
Endorsement schemes involving non-profits are wildly successful precisely because members trust the advice of the organizations to which they belong advice which they have no reason to believe is biased.
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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.
We have also opposed the deeply flawed and biased Goldstone Report, and voted against multiple resolutions on the flotilla incident at the Human Rights Council.
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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Broder might not have known in advance that he was severely biased or that he would write such a hit piece, but his lack of self-awareness makes no relevant difference as the uninformed (like you) will be affected nonetheless by his article.
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.
First of all, the three judges that convicted Fujimori should have never been given this responsibility since they were openly biased against the defendant.
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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.
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