bias

This approach helps reduce bias and makes it easier to determine whether any observed benefits are actually caused by the treatment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

Because sitting captains of industry don’t always know where to find signs of change, they often succumb to a kind of observational bias.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

A balloon would start up jerkily, on a great bias, and be torn by the wind or blown against the houses of the square.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Baron Cohen has in the past suggested that his character had a knack for pushing powerful interviewees into uncomfortable territory by playing with biases and expectations.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

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

My dad did, and my dad's very biased, as you could imagine.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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

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

The polling samples were biased toward those who thought the broadcast was real, and the statistical analyses of the data were flawed.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

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

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

In a question of this kind the mind is perhaps unconsciously biassed by comparing one antiquarian idea with another.

From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Thomas Inman

I venture to think that no painter, however modern, and no critic, however biassed, could stand in front of that little portrait head in the Tate Gallery and honestly refrain from admiration and respect.

From John Pettie, R.A., H.R.S.A. Sixteen examples in colour of the artist's work by Martin Hardie

Uninfluenced, un-in′flōō-enst, adj. not subject to, or acted upon by, influence: not biassed or prejudiced.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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

It’s a cool observation, Turner says, although more work needs to be done to ensure that the Apollo 15 site isn’t biasing the results.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 20, 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

The doctor sprang from his chair and with eyes biasing and fists tightly clenched, stood over the captain.

From Tides of Barnegat by Francis Hopkinson Smith

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

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

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

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

There would be no harm in biassing me in her favour.

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton