1) ACLU target 2) Angle 3) Askew view 4) Bar to equity 5) Belief in one way 6) Bent 7) Bigoted attitude 8) Bigotry 9) Cause prejudice 10) Certain tendency 11) Character in the Iliad 12) Civil rights concern 13) Color 14) Data skewer 15) Diagonal 16) Diagonal cut 17) Diagonal line 18) Distorted judgement
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1) Affections 2) Ara 3) Bent 4) Diagonal 5) Favouritism 6) Homophobia 7) Incline 8) Inequality 9) Islamophobia 10) Membership 11) Oblique 12) Obliquity 13) Onesidedness 14) Partisanship 15) Predispose 16) Prejudice 17) Racism 18) Skew 19) Slant 20) Tendency 21) Tendentiousness 22) Tilt 23) Unfairness
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(controller design) Input device terminology. The difference between the mean of the outcomes and the target value. Only relevant when discussing accuracy.
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• (v. t.) To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess. • (n.) A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line. • (n.) A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias. • (n.) A leaning of ...
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1. Bias of technology, either change or difference, refers to a shift towards or away from use of a factor. The exact meaning depends on the definition of neutral used to define absence of bias. Factor bias matters for the effects of technological progress on trade and welfare. 2. Bias of a trade regime refers to whether the structure of protectio...
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Any influence that distorts the results of a research study
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(from the article `Melampus`) ...mythology, a seer who as a child received the understanding of the language of birds after two young snakes, whose lives he had saved, licked his ...
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(from the article `rocket and missile system`) ...other hand, must be corrected by improving the missile`s design—particularly its guidance. Guidance/en-route errors are usually measured by a ...
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(from the article `sociology`) Bias is sometimes presumed to be a chronic affliction of sociology. This may arise in part from the fact that the subject matter of sociology is ... Sampling errors and bias both constitute a continuing concern, especially since so much sociological knowledge is derived from samples of a larger ... [2 r...
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A tendency to misrepresent. The term bias is used in statistics to refer to how far the average statistic lies from the parameter it is estimating, that is, the error that arises when estimating a quantity. Errors from chance will cancel each other out in the long run, those from bias will not.
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<statistics> In a clinical trial, bias refers to effects that a conclusion that may be incorrect as, for example, when a researcher or patient knows what treatment is being given. To avoid bias, a blinded study may be done. ... Any deviation of results or inferences from the truth, or processes leading to such deviation. ... Bias can result f...
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(bi´әs) (in a measurement process) systematic error. any influence or action at any stage of a study that systematically distorts the findings. (of a statistical estimator) the difference between the expected value of the estimator and the true parameter value.
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(n) Bias is the lenient view towards a person or entity belonging to a particular section like gender, color, locality, believes or any such specialty which may lead to take an impartial decision or decision against the truth, to favor such person. A bias can be for or against a section.
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Bi'as (bī'
a s)
noun ;
plural Biases (-ĕz). [ French
biasis , perhaps from Late Latin
bifax two-faced; Latin
bis +
facies face. See
Bi- , and confer
Face .]
1. A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of b...
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Bi'as adjective 1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. [ Obsolete]
Shak. 2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
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Bi'as adverb In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth
bias .
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Bi'as transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Biased (bī'
a st);
present participle & verbal noun Biasing .] To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess. « ...
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Bowls are not round, they are very slightly egg shaped and one side has a bias. This side is offset to make the bowl curve. The bias side of the bowl is noted by the smaller round ring. Bias is correct when the bowl curves towards the Jack.
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A subjective opinion, preference, prejudice, or inclination, often formed without reasonable justification, that influences the ability of an individual or group to evaluate a situation objectively or accurately.
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A direction of a piece of woven fabric. Usually referred to as “the bias.” This is a 45 degree angle to the gain line, or diagonal direction of the fabric.
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Flaws in the collection, analysis or interpretation of research data that
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adjective slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric; `a bias fold`
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A woven fabric does not have a stretch across the grain line from left to right, and up and down. There is no stretch in the grain. However, diagonally across the grain is the bias, where the fabric will give a bit, which is why making garments “on the bias” or “cross-grain” give a woven a nice drape.
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[Scientific terms] a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
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[SAT terms] influence in an unfair way
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