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bias

[bahy-uhs] / ˈbaɪ əs /


NOUN
diagonal weave of fabric
Synonyms
VERB
cause to favor
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
WEAK
be fair be impartial be just


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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

"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

We recently studied prediction market traders from 1900 to 2024 and found that these markets are resilient to political bias despite skewed demographics among participants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

But these cases also tend to create distortions and bias.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

Another area pupils will be taught is AI's biases towards certain norms because of the information it is trained on.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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

“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

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

With most of its population crowded along the U.S. border, economic gravity has always biased Canadian growth along north-south rather than east-west lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

As a former Norwich striker I often get accused of being biased against Ipswich, but I am not being overly negative about them here.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Shouldn’t the focus be on improving ourselves, rather than challenging a biased system?

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

It is confirmed by other evidence, Catholic, Dissenting, pagan, scientific, and by the reports of illiterate men, unbiassed by science, and little biassed by religion.

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

The History is defective in its lack of objectivity; Graetz’s judgments are sometimes biassed, and in particular he lacks sympathy with mysticism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

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

He should not be biassed by any appearances; have no favourite hypothesis; be of no school; and in doctrine have no master.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett

These gentlemen know the river well enough as it now is, and are not biassed by old memories of what it once was but is no longer.

From Boating by W. B. Woodgate

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

"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

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

No one knew better or more dreaded the risk of biasing opinion by over or under-statements concerning the conspicuous persons of whom he wrote.

From Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D. by Brantz Mayer

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

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

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

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


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