"His was not the measured, balanced presentation you might expect of a State Department official," said Robin Niblett, a specialist on Europe who spoke at the same event.
Balancing presentation order of the terms of a CATA question between and within participants has been recommended to minimize the influence of primacy bias on consumer responses and maintain their attention throughout the task.
Compared to balancing presentation order only between participants, this experimental factor may make the task more difficult/tedious for participants and shift their attention away from the sensory characterization task with possible detrimental effects for sample discrimination.
He also authored the "Resolution for Balanced Presentation of Evolution and Scientific Creationism" found on the website of the Institute for Creation Research (www.icr.org/article/153/ accessed May 31 , 2008.
In 1979, ICR attorney Wendell Bird wrote a "Resolution for Balanced Presentation of Evolution and Scientific Creationism" requiring public schools to give "balanced treatment to the theory of scientific creationism and the theory of evolution" for the sake of "academic freedom" (Bird 1979).
Moreover, all three bills are directly traceable to earlier efforts at least as far back as creationist lawyer Wendell Bird's 1979 "Resolution for Balanced Presentation of Evolution and Scientific Creationism," which invoked the obligation of public schools "to provide academic freedom for students' differing values and beliefs" by offering "the theory of special creation" (Bird 1979).
High quality DAs assure balanced presentation of the outcomes that can be achieved by competing alternatives on a population basis, and the risks and benefits of each.
However, our study ensured balanced presentation of violation and consistent sequences, which is also the case for many other AG learning studies (Friederici, 2004; Friederici et al., 2002).
However, these guidelines provide little explanation and elaboration about what constitutes a "balanced presentation", why balance is essential for informed patient decision making, what strategies developers use to present information in a balanced manner, nor how to assess the balance of information and options during the development or evaluation of PtDAs.
Balanced presentations can fuel unbalanced views.
