bias

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

Here we have a bias that is mainly geometrical.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Like our atavistic cravings for fat and sugar, many cognitive biases also may have made more sense in an earlier environment—what Mr. Jones calls “time-shifted rationality.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The researchers found significant variability in the advice and spotted some potential demographic biases.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 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

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 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 doctor of the diaries comes across as all too human—stubborn, biased, vain and vindictive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

I’m definitely biased, but you’re moving to the best city in the world.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

"Having visited all four Grand Slams, I might be biased, but Wimbledon is truly in a league of its own," Jacqueline adds.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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

My Lewis always says that my figure is exactly right, but I dare say he's biassed.

From The War-Workers by E.M. Delafield

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

Nor for every defect in faithfulness, through ignorance, want of courage, misinformation, or being biassed with affection for particular persons.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

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

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

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

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

In a 2020 study, epidemiologist Reem Masarwa, then a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues explored whether confounding factors such as heredity and maternal illness could be biasing acetaminophen research.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2023

That could cause the team to miss thousands of infections that caused few or no symptoms, potentially biasing the results.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 19, 2023

The horse started off on a biasing canter, much to my amusement.

From Medoline Selwyn's Work by Hattie E. Colter

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

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 Grant Allen

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

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

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