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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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The researchers also note that food frequency questionnaires rely on participants accurately remembering what they ate, which can introduce recall bias.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Krasner said “protect the office” meant “preventing outside bias and outside conflict from unjustly impacting the office’s justice work,” according to a court filing in his defense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The board will apparently act as a sort of ombudsman that will arbitrate disputes between employees and management regarding “alleged reporting bias or failure to meet agreed reporting fairness standards.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

EFF is seeking more details from CMS, such as how often denials were reversed on appeal, how the AI systems were trained and how they were tested to protect from bias, Cohen said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

In erecting this high standard, the Court knew full well that the standard could not be met absent an admission that a prosecutor or judge acted because of racial bias.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

This is because public data used to train many AI systems can reflect existing societal biases such as sexism or racism.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

But all inevitably carry their own biases, and none have the intimate understanding, sustained commitment or enduring responsibility that parents have for their children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

The dominant biases of scholarship—Western, Christian, English—could be challenged from every corner of the globe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

And these differ from each other, sometimes dramatically, reflecting the authors’ biases and ignorance, and their informants’ manipulation of history to cast a flattering light on their family lines.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

Researchers say that skewed ratio may be self-perpetuating: Because more boys are thought to have autism, diagnostic tools are biased toward boys’ autistic traits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Mikaela, who was supposed to judge the round with James, recused herself because she felt she would be too biased.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

I've stopped looking at all the discussions and arguments from my family’s biased point of view.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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

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 Fanny Burney

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

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

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

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

This time it went biasing off in the other direction and left an untidy smudge of paste on Westbury's nice, clean strip.

From Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Thomas Fogarty

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

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

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




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