bias
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The lab doesn't give their subjects human-sounding names, in an effort to avoid bias in their research.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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
“Despite a recent 25% pullback from highs, the seasonal chart suggests a bullish bias for the next several months,” they say.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
His sympathy for either side was a bias for one.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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
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 new study is the first to examine how depressive symptoms and attention biases may influence one another over time in children.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
“When people watch the news, they don’t intentionally filter biases out, or feel they have to argue against the expression of the newscaster,” Mullen explains.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
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
"I might be biased saying this, but it definitely deserved to win," said the church's Reverend Kim Williams.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Excluding both equally would have biased the trend in inflation upward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 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
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 Burgon, John William
What impartial judge would allow his mind to be biassed by them, altered and garbled as they must unquestionably be, even supposing that their originals once existed?
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford
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 Lindley, Augustus F.
Although his judges were biassed against him he was acquitted on each count, and the result was received with enthusiastic cheers by immense crowds within and without the court.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
It has always been undertaken with some special practical problem in view, and is consequently always fragmentary and frequently biassed.
From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various
"If this person's goal, whether explicit or implicit, was in fact to understand the overall landscape of movies in this country, the algorithmic recommendation ends up seriously biasing one's understanding," the authors wrote.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2025
Bullard said it's not just inflation biasing the Fed toward more action.
From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023
By periodically biasing word selection in this way, a body of text is watermarked based on a particular distribution of tagged words.
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
Even if he was going to revise his views, was it right, was it candid, was it loyal to the truth, that he should revise them under the biassing influence of Meenie's eyes?
From Strange Stories by Allen, Grant
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
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 Fullerton, Georgiana
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