Arguably, not just the tone but the content of discussion risks distortion too.
That sounds a lot, but once you start processing that sound – adding effects, and so on – you start running out of information and risk distortion.
This was yet another case that had attracted political attention and seemed to have been processed with as much concern for China's foreign policy as for its criminal code.Of course, only a tiny proportion of China's legal cases carry such political significance, and to examine its judicial system solely through the prism of such cases is to risk distortion of the bigger picture.
However, in the setting of low influenza risk, with the reports of vaccine related adverse events in the media after the vaccine was available for the priority groups (Figure 2), people may shift their perceived risks away from influenza and towards vaccination, suggestive of availability bias (risk distortion by easily recalled events) [66].
The first was that markets allocate capital better than politicians do, so we risk distortions with tax provisions aimed at encouraging investment in one part or another of the economy.
For each comorbidity categorization, we calculated the standardized mortality risk ratio (SMR) across strata and divided this figure into the crude risk ratio (the unadjusted age/mortality association) to yield the relative risk due to confounding (RR c), which measures the direction and magnitude of risk ratio distortion due to confounding by comorbidity.
All of those problems apply to the company's own Web sites, and the risk of distortion is even worse when the name or logo appear on someone else's.
Just as the distinction between folk and aristocracy cannot be transferred from medieval Europe to tribal Africa or Classical Greece without risk of distortion, so the importing of a distinction between myth and folktale on the later European model is extremely problematic.
Because there's no lens, there's no risk of distortion and no need to focus.
Four different incentive payment approaches are presented and the effects of risk and distortion on optimal incentives are discussed.
