Sentence examples for using a cutoff score from inspiring English sources

Critics also contend that because women score lower on the exams than men, and African-Americans and Latinos lower than whites and Asian-Americans, using a cutoff score to screen applicants typically results in a less diverse student body.

Using a cutoff score of 9 excludes 10.6 % of the patients from the diagnosis of MDD.

In a Korean study of primary care patients, Cronbach's α was 0.852, sensitivity was 90.9 % and specificity was 87%% using a cutoff score of 8 [24].

Eleven of the studies provided details about the diagnostic properties of the questionnaire and the pooled sensitivity ranged from 62 % with a cutoff score of 14 to 89 % using a cutoff score of 10.

Data discussed at the meeting showed that, in addition to being financially burdensome, GRE scores are strongly correlated with gender and race such that using a cutoff score to sort applicants lowers the number of women and minorities admitted.

The TS cognitive phenotype was defined as a dichotomous measure, rather than a quantitative trait, using a cutoff score.

However, the frequency was 25.8 % when we used a cutoff score of 9 in the initial validation study [8].

We used a cutoff score of 3 or more which is recommended by some studies on one hand but not encouraged by others.

We used a cutoff score of > 17 to indicate moderate to severe levels of depressive symptoms.

In addition, we used a cutoff score of ≥16 to increase specificity for depression (21).

Although the assays used non-comparable measurement scales, both did use a cutoff score to indicate ER positivity/negativity.