bias

Mr. Friedman cites research that “people’s belief about their team’s ability is one of the best predictors of a team’s actual performance,” yet there is still potential for bias.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

"There's a lot of bias that goes into that two cents," Weber said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

In writing history, there must be intense rigor — evidence is important and if you have evidence that should counteract any bias or hypothesis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

“Employees often feel safer owning the company they know, but that can be familiarity bias masquerading as investment analysis,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

Once I had the record of the case, I could put together an appeal, usually based on some judicial irregularity such as bias, incorrect procedure, or insufficient evidence.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The dominant biases of scholarship—Western, Christian, English—could be challenged from every corner of the globe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The aim was to assess how their biases were affected by scene-by-scene content analysis of the racial representation of 29 popular kids shows and movies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

But after an investor has begun to participate in the markets, he or she may have developed biases that are hard to overcome.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

One of its core biases is that value stocks outperform growth stocks, which of course they haven’t for over a decade.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

The kinds of biases we’re talking about here aren’t so obvious that it’s easy to identify a solution.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

He put this partially down to the first two weeks of the period tending to correlate with Wall Street two-year projections – which are biased lower.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Mexico’s inflation was 3.55% in mid-June, with core inflation at 4.12%, and risks to the inflation forecast remain biased to the upside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Instead, such episodes seemed to reinforce his perception that he was climbing a mountain alone, battling institutions that were already biased against raw milk before hearing his case.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

There always will be people who claim Davis is biased toward the Dodgers, just as people claimed his predecessor, Joe Buck, was biased toward the St. Louis Cardinals.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

Yet there is often a weak correlation between degrees of explicit and implicit bias; many people who think they are not biased prove when tested to have relatively high levels of bias.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

I have particular pleasure in quoting these words by a man of immense erudition, because he does not belong to orthodox writers, and will not therefore be thought biassed by a preconceived opinion.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

These ideas gained wide acceptance in literary circles and gradually biassed the popular taste to such an extent that learned pedants could boast, like Khalíl b.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

Christina thinks you're so anxious not to favour him because he's your nephew that you are positively biassed against him.

From Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

They proceed to their work with a biassed mind.

From Tobacco Leaves Being a Book of Facts for Smokers by Brennan, W. A.

Each, biassed by previous irritation, accused the other in his mind of taking the shot from him.

From Greene Ferne Farm by Jefferies, Richard

That meant that researchers could keep the organoids separated without biasing their experimental results.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2025

Some economists viewed this increase as an anomaly given that the sector accounted for about 16% of total employment and speculated that a low response rate could be biasing the numbers higher.

From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023

Generated text can be watermarked by secretly tagging a subset of words and then biasing the selection of a word to be a synonymous tagged word.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2023

Scientists who have internalized this concern may be subconsciously biasing their models to be unrealistically conservative.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2022

Such ideas as these are corrupting courts, and biasing the public mind, and the injury is more than apparent to the observer.

From The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation by Nation, Carry Amelia

However, this is beside the question; and I want to avoid biassing your decision in any way.

From Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea by Overend, William Heysham

He did not," he said, "state the impression upon his own mind with the purpose of biassing theirs.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir

The subject is one of immense importance, and especially in this country, where it can seldom be discussed without adventitious circumstances biassing the inquirers.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

But the truth is that, if we set aside matters of trivial import, the enormous majority of human judgments are those into which the biassing power off likes and dislikes more or less largely enters.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Still the attitude created by the Tubingen theory largely persists as a biassing element in much that is written about Acts.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg