bias

A study of former NFL players who died from 2008 to 2023 estimates that 74.5% had CTE, accounting for bias in brain donations because the disease can be diagnosed only after death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

A judge will consider that issue Thursday in Monticello, N.Y., weighing the accusations of bias by one of the defendants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

"When we apply the model weights to historical simulations, we completely eliminated the positive bias," said lead author Crystal Fu, from Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

This phenomenon stems in part from the just-world cognitive bias, the tendency to believe that the world is fundamentally fair and that good people are rewarded while bad people are punished.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

As a result of the Armstrong decision, defendants who suspect racial bias on the part of prosecutors are trapped in a classic catch-22.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The findings also demonstrate why scientists must draw on several independent methods when reconstructing population histories, particularly when written records are incomplete, unreliable, or shaped by historical biases.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

In theory, systematic funds remove the emotionality and biases of human judgment by rigorously adhering to the rules set by their models.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Oblivious to her own biases about who Leo is and why, Mallory poses as a therapist keen on saving his life, but uses their faux sessions to mine his story for literary gold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

One human rights concern raised in recent years is that AI can display biases against particular groups if trained on large datasets scraped from the internet which can include racist, sexist and other undesirable material.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

I began thinking about what would happen if we all just acknowledged our brokenness, if we owned up to our weaknesses, our deficits, our biases, our fears.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

In their study, the researchers found that in nine of the 13 US areas they looked at, police data from periods of unlawful or biased policing was available to train these systems.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

My dad did, and my dad's very biased, as you could imagine.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

However, those associations have generally been modest, and scientists have not been sure whether biased attention contributes to depression or develops because of it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

“The Department takes allegations of discriminatory or biased conduct seriously,” the statement read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

We sought review in the Alabama Supreme Court and won a new trial based on the trial judge's refusal to exclude people from jury service who were biased and could not be impartial.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

As minds are differently biassed, this fact will be differently judged.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley

In′terested, having an interest or concern: affected or biassed by personal considerations, self-interest, &c.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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

That Mr. Wallace himself should be biassed in this matter might, perhaps, be expected.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes

Were those iniquitous proceedings an evidence of that "Justice, by nothing biassed or inclined, Deaf to persuasion, to temptation blind; Determined without favour, and the laws O'erlook the parties to decide the cause?"

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton

That smaller sample means certain demographic groups may be over- or under-covered, biasing the total estimates.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Much of the research in nutrition is funded by industry, which has been criticized for biasing the results.

From Salon ● May 1, 2025

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

Bullard said it's not just inflation biasing the Fed toward more action.

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023

There was one rule, or rather the absence of it, which had appealed very strongly to Mrs. Harold and gone a long way toward biasing her choice in favor of the school.

From Peggy Stewart at School by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson

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

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

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 Robert Green Ingersoll

There would be no harm in biassing me in her favour.

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton

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