bias
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There’s also no question the Ballon d’Or voters, made up of writers from France Football and L’Equipe, alongside international soccer ambassadors, have a European bias.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
EFF is seeking more details from CMS, such as how often denials were reversed on appeal, how the AI systems were trained and how they were tested to protect from bias, Cohen said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Though some literary professionals expressed fears of ghettoization, many welcome these new entities as necessary to fight bias, foster new writers and serve readers of Jewish and Israeli books across borders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
"And we tested this in a large nationwide study using analysis methods to emulate a randomized trial and reduce some of the bias associated with observational studies," he noted.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
This is quite clearly the kind of unconscious bias that the IAT picks up on.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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But nonprofit monitors come with their own biases and business ties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
But there are also concerns about AI models making wrong decisions as a result of biases in the patient data used to train them, and incorrect medical advice being given by AI chatbots.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The researchers found significant variability in the advice and spotted some potential demographic biases.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 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
In theory, peremptory strikes may increase the fairness of the proceeding by eliminating jurors who may be biased but whose biases cannot be demonstrated convincingly to a judge.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Yet today, many Jews believe that publishing is biased against them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Researchers say that skewed ratio may be self-perpetuating: Because more boys are thought to have autism, diagnostic tools are biased toward boys’ autistic traits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
As a Kiwi, I'm biased - but clearly Liam Lawson's been performing at Racing Bulls so far this year, and he's currently 'best of the rest' in the driver standings.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
He was freed after his conviction was overturned on procedural grounds, with the presiding judge also later ruled to have been biased.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The idea of overtaking Slytherin in the House Championship was wonderful, no one had done it for seven years, but would they be allowed to, with such a biased referee?
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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Above all, the critic should be impartial, and by no means allow himself to be biassed by either prejudice or prepossession, whether personal or political.
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 W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
The same spirit, biassed by sentiment not ruled by reason, has remained since more has been disclosed of the real nature of this Codex208.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
Uninfluenced, un-in′flōō-enst, adj. not subject to, or acted upon by, influence: not biassed or prejudiced.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
I should make a statistical inquiry among school-children, before their pristine wisdom had been biassed by teachers.
From The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll by Various
That smaller sample means certain demographic groups may be over- or under-covered, biasing the total estimates.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
While not all participants had pets of their own, their fondness for animals likely motivated their willingness to participate in the experiment, potentially biasing the results.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
But he told Reuters in an interview that the economy is biasing the central bank in that direction.
From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 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
The doctor sprang from his chair and with eyes biasing and fists tightly clenched, stood over the captain.
From Tides of Barnegat by Francis Hopkinson Smith
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
There would be no harm in biassing me in her favour.
From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton
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 Sir Walter Scott
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 William Heysham Overend
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 T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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