Anti-weight discrimination laws, which also exist in just three other cities and the state of Michigan, are a kind of Rorschach test for discrimination laws of all kinds.
Given that Section 5 of the V.R.A. allows districts covered by its provisions to move out of coverage by consistently demonstrating that their laws have no discriminatory impact, this decision was something of an end run: places that have consistently failed the litmus tests of discrimination were, in a second, given the status of those where there's been legitimate progress.
Other studies perform different types of more direct tests of discrimination in Sweden (for example, Rooth (2001) and Åslund and Rooth (2005)).
Lastly, given that the current research revealed significant differences in the visual attention of infants to own- and other-race faces, future research should aim to combine eye-tracking data collection with tests of discrimination, recognition, and categorization of faces of different races in both infants and children.
The incremental predictive validity of these factors was estimated using tests of discrimination, calibration and reclassification.
All three of the prognostic models assessed performed poorly on all the tests of discrimination, calibration and goodness of fit.
Based on anecdotal testing of discrimination between real and random sequences, the default for t1 is set to 0.25.
Nevertheless, tests of discrimination alone are not sufficient for model evaluation, since they do not indicate whether calibration is also good [ 34, 35, 42].
Additional techniques that will be used to determine the value of SPUTOVAMO-R are tests of discrimination with calculation of Areas under Receiver Operating Characteristic curves, and calibration techniques to evaluate if predicted abuse corresponds to observed abuse.
Infant development was assessed from birth to 12 months of age by examining the acquisition of neonatal reflexes, the development of object concept permanence (OCP), computerized tests of discrimination learning, and infant social behavior.
Finally, evidence from tests of discrimination across groups differing in the frequency of smoking symptoms supported the hypothesized greater discriminant validity of the Smoking Impact scale over the two generic measures, in both samples (Table 6).
