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Psychologists call this normalcy bias, which is our mind’s assumption that things will continue as they always have.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Becerra’s critics subscribe to “this very American bias that an immigrant only moves once to the U.S., the land of opportunity, of hope — all that mythology,” Gradilla continued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

In recent U.S. races, there is also no bias by age, race or gender.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

He later apologised and denied he was accusing her of bias.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The common impression that pre-agricultural humans lived in an age of stone is a misconception based on this archaeological bias.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

Behavioral biases can tug investors in the direction of either panicking and holding on following a plunge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

Maybe then we can begin to fear less, to make fewer wrong assumptions, to let go of the biases and stereotypes that unnecessarily divide us.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

"I know I'm biased because she was mine, but she was the best human I've ever met," says Aaron John Huxter of his daughter Olivia-Grace.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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 plaintiffs alleged the department relied on documentation that “is the product of a biased, closed-off ‘process’ that ignored valid concerns raised by the public.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Yet today, many Jews believe that publishing is biased against them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Politicians and law enforcement officials today rarely endorse racially biased practices, and most of them fiercely condemn racial discrimination of any kind.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Yet the man might be biassed; sympathy for the deceived might paint the deceiver's conduct in colours even blacker than the truth demanded.

From Second String by Anthony Hope

Travellers in general, and missionaries in particular, are biassed in several distinct ways.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

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

Of course, one particular woman's opinion of her may very likely be biassed.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds

Travellers and missionaries have begun to read anthropological books, and their evidence is therefore much more likely to be biassed now by anthropological theories than it was of old.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

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

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

What are the results of such methods of biasing the mind?

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman

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

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

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

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

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