bias

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Editorial note

This caused a slight DC bias within each sub band filter.

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Quick take

a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bias gathered in one view.

noun

a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

noun

a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

verb

influence in an unfair way; "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bias.

noun

a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

noun

a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

verb

influence in an unfair way; "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours"

verb

cause to be biased

adjective

slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric; "a bias fold"

Example sentences

This caused a slight DC bias within each sub band filter.

There is just too much incentives for profs to ignore biases in their research.

For example, you can think of the market as a random walk with an upward bias.

Even though they should be trained to know better, modern news programs make no effort to disguise their bias.

A high rating here would mean the phenotype would have a bias against being combined with dissimilar creatures.

Since I don't see this specifically addressed in the text: I suspect this is a classic case of survivorship bias.

It's not WhereEver Police Department that has an issue with racial bias and violent escalation, it's just a few bad apples.

But thanks to survivorship bias, you don't hear from all the ones who risked everything, turned their lives and relationships and health upside down, and then lost.

I think if you talk to cryptographers, you'll get a slight bias towards the belief that it's the latter: that there are implementation weaknesses at play here more than fundamental breaks in crypto.

Recognize that we all have a cognitive bias towards narratives, and especially interesting narratives.

Even then, it's not clear whether this is human bias or something wrong with the car log, because this data <i>is</i> from the car log and it would be nice to correlate it against that Google Map they have.

Any deviation from that norm is "bias".Keeping identifying information in a centralized location that is subject to subpoena by law enforcement is a norm now, too, one that has serious social consequences.