Objective Bias in UK Law
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The European Commission’s Google Shopping decision: Could bias have anything to do with it?
... ... Legal reasoning, however, provides an opportunity to test theplausibility of hypothesized bias: if the reasoning is strong, persuasive and objective, bias iseither irrelevant (that is, it has not influenced the decision) or unlikely. If reasoning is weak,unpersuasive, or subjective, bias may have ... ...
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Crime Prevention and the Future of the Probation Service
Recent expansion in the conventional work-load of the Probation Service has not removed the basic empirical and theoretical objections to present probation practice. However, there are few signs of...... ... Insupport of the fourth objective they called for are-direction from traditional client-centredmethods ... ...
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On network externalities, e‐business adoption and information asymmetry
Purpose: This paper seeks to investigate and provide empirical evidence of the interrelationships among network externalities, e‐business adoption and information asymmetry. Design/methodology/app...... ... -reported questionnaires, and thus may be subject to self-reporting bias. Futurestudies should use more objective measurements to reduce the ... ...
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Information Technology and the Quality Gap
During 1990, one of the largest service sector companies in the UK was in the process of implementing major change. Top management believed that total quality management (TQM) was an appropriate ve...... ... philosophicaland cultural level, attributable to an emphasis on objective and realist philosophiesof TQM implementation (see Figure 1). This is ... ...
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Harvesting knowledge from computer mediated social networks
Purpose: This paper aims to focus on how the advantages of computer mediated social networks (CMSN) can be effectively harnessed to create value for organizations in the form of ready knowledge and...... ... It will also serve as a starting point into the future of objective KMoriented CMSN. Possible response bias from some respondents can be ... ...
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Data mining and the impact of missing data
The actual data mining process deals significantly with prediction, estimation, classification, pattern recognition and the development of association rules. Therefore, the significance of the anal...... ... collected, thehigher the likelihood of missing databecomes.The objective of this research is to addressthe impact of missing data on the datamining ... data must be addressedsince ignoring this problem canintroduce bias into the modelsbeing evaluated and lead toinaccurate data ... ...
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The performance effects of attitudes of management vis-à-vis employee representatives in Belgium
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to move beyond the usual analysis of the effects of worker representation. Instead of estimating the impact of the mere presence of works councils on business ...... ... The data set is unique, combining subjectivewith objective data, so reducing the risk of respondents’bias.Keywords Quantitative, ... ...
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Managing Organizational Bias in the Post‐audit of MIS
Projects
Discusses how most organizations use formal methods which are purely objective and rational to evaluate system projects. Such methods are incapable of capturing the social aspects of system project...... ... Most of the criteria and the mechanisms are purely objective, whereas information systems are socio-technical in nature and the organization is made of people who are subjective and interest-seeking. This ... ...
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The values of public libraries: a systematic review of empirical studies of stakeholder perceptions
Purpose: Public libraries' relevance and raison d'être towards society is an often discussed subject within public, politics and research. The objective of this systematic literature review is to p...... ... The objective of this systematic literature review is to provide a synthesis ofempirical ... The included studies were subject to a risk of bias assessment on basis of a developed risk of the biastool, and qualitative ... ...
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Legal control of expert witness bias
Impartiality of expert witnesses means that such experts operate within scientific principles and legal procedures. By doing so, they assist the trier of fact. There are two aspects to the requirem...... ... of personal background and expert activity). They must also follow industry stan- dards of forensic science regarding objective technical accessible demands, laboratory man- ... ...
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