bias
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The studies varied in quality, but the team assessed the risk of bias and the certainty of the evidence using established research methods.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
“Holding joy and fear at the same time is not abstract; it’s rooted in lived experience, medical bias, and real statistics.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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
“Last week’s payroll numbers were stronger than expected, confirming markets’ hawkish bias for the upcoming Fed meeting,” ING senior rates strategists Benjamin Schroeder and Michiel Tukker say in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
But these cases also tend to create distortions and bias.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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
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
The researchers found significant variability in the advice and spotted some potential demographic biases.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The aim was to assess how their biases were affected by scene-by-scene content analysis of the racial representation of 29 popular kids shows and movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Decades of cognitive bias research demonstrates that both unconscious and conscious biases lead to discriminatory actions, even when an individual does not want to discriminate.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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 experts I spoke with offered guidance on how to tell if your therapist is giving biased advice and what to do about it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
He was freed after his conviction was overturned on procedural grounds, with the presiding judge also later ruled to have been biased.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
I’m definitely biased, but you’re moving to the best city in the world.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Propaganda uses misleading, biased, or exaggerated information to promote a political cause.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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I could not have been biassed an instant by those who know not how to appreciate her.
From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
What impartial judge would allow his mind to be biassed by them, altered and garbled as they must unquestionably be, even supposing that their originals once existed?
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
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
That Mr. Wallace himself should be biassed in this matter might, perhaps, be expected.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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