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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Bias

Hi.
" Krueger and colleagues (1998) also provide a very useful review of the bias in estimates of genetic and of shared and nonshared environmental factors from twin and adoption studies that fail to account for assortative mating."
http://focus.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?Volume=2&page=558&journalID=21

What does bias mean here?
  

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Hi, The people making the estimates are not doing it objectively. They are influenced unreasonably by their own subjecttive opinions. Clive

  • Hi, The people making the estimates are not doing it objectively.
  • They are influenced unreasonably by their own subjecttive opinions.
  • Clive
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Hi,

The people making the estimates are not doing it objectively. They are influenced unreasonably by their own subjecttive opinions.

Clive

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