bias

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

Neutrality means the FJC’s materials should be written by disinterested experts, vetted for bias and confined to helping judges understand evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

One major pitfall is that it may introduce visual bias into the hiring process, she noted.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

One of the biggest challenges is sampling bias because animals actively guarding eggs are much easier to notice and photograph than species that provide no parental care.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

Awareness of this risk did not require intimate familiarity with cognitive bias research.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

“Even if they have some of these biases, they recognize that they shouldn’t be telling the experimenter about those biases,” he explains.

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

Ottawa has plans to update the laws and standards regarding privacy rights, ensure safeguards for children’s online activities and protect vulnerable groups from online violence and algorithmic biases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

In theory, peremptory strikes may increase the fairness of the proceeding by eliminating jurors who may be biased but whose biases cannot be demonstrated convincingly to a judge.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

Instead, such episodes seemed to reinforce his perception that he was climbing a mountain alone, battling institutions that were already biased against raw milk before hearing his case.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

In a statement, Villarreal denied any wrongdoing, calling the claims false, biased and lacking evidence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

In 2025, 47% said they were biased against large corporations, nearly double that from 2018.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

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

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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.

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 Shields, Alexander

He was not one to be biassed by personal feelings or beguiled by fair appearances, in the face of stubborn, unaccountable facts.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

The public at large is generally just, because too enormous to be individually canvassed; but private circles are almost universally biassed by partial or prejudiced influence.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

They proceed to their work with a biassed mind.

From Tobacco Leaves Being a Book of Facts for Smokers by Brennan, W. A.

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

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

Scientists who have internalized this concern may be subconsciously biasing their models to be unrealistically conservative.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2022

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 Mayer, Brantz

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

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 Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

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 Ingersoll, Robert Green