University Chancellor Harvey Perlman told faculty members in an email sent out Friday that the association's evaluative metric is biased against institutions like UNL, according to the Omaha World-Herald: "I had hoped our extraordinary accomplishments and steep trajectory would have made us less vulnerable, but the AAU's approach to the review made this result inevitable," he said.
Industry-wide data are in short supply, and those that are available suffer from what statisticians call "survivorship bias": institutions with terrible repayment records go bust, taking their bad numbers with them and leaving only the better records to be examined.Special report The hidden wealth of the poor What do you know?
Treatment choices may therefore be biased by institution choices.
That is home-made, rooted in profoundly dysfunctional economic institutions biased against investment, innovation and long-termism.
The limitation of our study includes patients selection of cervicocephalic arterial dissection was biased because our institution mainly deals with emergency patients with severe symptoms.
Our institutions are biased by design.
In recent years, many states have tried to increase community care, but advocates for the disabled say that spending is still biased in favors of institutions.
We are in uncharted territory with this referendum, and with it being such a close-run thing the danger of the grievances that have been bandied around by the yes campaign over the media's biased coverage, over financial institutions and major retailers raising concerns regarding the impact of independence – the danger of all this spilling over into something ugly should not be underestimated.
They argue that journalists are often poorly trained, biased and prone to defame institutions and individuals.
The majority of available studies are either small, do not include antepartum data, limited to single institutions, or are biased by inclusion of patients from registries and online vasa previa support groups.
Similarly, a policy person trying to find government work can be stymied by institutions that are biased toward people with technical degrees.
