Word Finder - bias

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Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.

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The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.

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A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

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A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.

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The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.

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In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.

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A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.

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To place bias upon; to influence.

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Our prejudices bias our views.

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Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

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Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

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In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

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to cut cloth bias

His natural bias was to respect things as they were.

The townspeople show a bias in favour of French habits and fashions.

His natural parts were excellent; and a strong bias in the direction of abstract thought, and mathematics in particular, was noticeable at an early date.

This document provides guidance on the stages in scheme development at which optimism bias can be reduced.

To illustrate the self-serving bias with regard to success, I will draw on my own experiences.

This bias is reflected in the maxim that "correction should precede interpretation," which is no more than a half-truth.

The sovereign as compared with her ministers has, because she is the sovereign, the advantage of long experience, wide survey, elevated position and entire disconnexion from the bias of party.

Its author, with a considerable mathematical and mechanical bias, reckoned entirely with the quantity, not with the quality of his units, and relied almost implicitly upon his formulae.

That phrase accurately describes the prevalent bias of its author's mind.

Lotze was a man of considerable attainments in special science; perhaps he reveals here the bias of the scientific mind, and possibly even its limitations.

It gives copious details, and, as he had access to the correspondence and official documents of the Spanish leaders, it is, although necessarily possessing bias, the fullest and most authentic record existing of the events it relates.

Despite the almost inevitable US bias, it is still worth a visit.

Fake news goes beyond simple bias. It can be misleading or even nefarious in nature.

One of them seeing Bias without anything, advised him to follow the example of the rest.

Degrees of bias employees north Dakota was very similar.

This observer bias can influence the outcome of an assessment.

At the same time the political bias of the writers, and the political ideas of their day were allowed, in some cases perhaps half unconsciously, to affect their representations of past events.

A similar tone of exaggerated depreciation of the Massoretic Hebrew text, coloured by polemical bias against Protestantism, mars his greatest work, the posthumous Exercitationes biblicae de hebraeici graecique textus sinceritate (1660), in which, following in the footsteps of Cappellus, but with incomparably greater learning, he brings irrefragable arguments against the then current theory of the absolute integrity of the Hebrew text and the antiquity of the vowel points.

On offer is responsible eco-tourism with a bias toward community-based visits.

Attempts to estimate the width of the gulf separating the Church of England in Elizabeth's time from the corresponding institution as it existed in the early years of her father's reign are likely to be gravely affected by personal bias.

With regard to his views of art, he himself modified and revised them from time to time; and it is admitted that some of his judgments are founded on imperfect study and personal bias.

His Preussische Geschichte (4 vols., Stuttgart, 1899-1902), which is perhaps his most notable work, is an attempt to apply scientific rather than patriotic canons to a subject which has been mainly in the hands of historians with a patriotic bias.

Through the first sin Adam and his posterity lost Immortality, And His Will Received A Bias Towards Evil.

But he cannot be reproached with undue bias; he writes with the straightforwardness of a soldier, and is not ashamed on occasion to confess his ignorance.

The greater the degree of managerial discretion, the greater the need to ensure that managers are trained in how to avoid sex bias.

A bias to the subgroup eg the plan is.

It is in this department of criticism that the personal equation has the freest play, and hence the natural adherents of either school of critics should be specially on their guard against their school's peculiar bias.

On the contrary, they promote an atmosphere which is totally inimical to the existence of bias.

The bias toward the 80s and 90s is pretty intense.

Most of those associated in the undertaking were Whigs; but, although the general bias of the Review was towards social and political reforms, it was at first so little of a party organ that for a time it numbered Sir Walter Scott among its contributors; and no distinct emphasis was given to its political leanings until the publication in 1808 of an article by Jeffrey himself on the work of Don Pedro Cevallos on the French Usurpation of Spain.

His title "the Bad" seems little merited and expresses the bias of the historian Falcandus and the baronial class against the king and the official class by whom he was guided.

He devoted his leisure, not only to mathematical and physical science, but to a course of reading in English literature, his bias towards the antique in sentiment and style being strengthened by a perusal of the older classics, among whom Richard Hooker was his favourite author.

Psychologically, pragmatism starts from the efficacy and allpervasiveness of mental activity, and points out that interest, attention, selection, purpose, bias, desire, emotion, satisfaction, &c., colour and control all our cognitive processes.

Humanism, a word which will often recur in the ensuing paragraphs, denotes a specific bias which the forces liberated in the Renaissance took from contact with the ancient world, - the particular form assumed by human self-esteem at that epoch, - the ideal of life and civilization evolved by the modern nations.

The validity of results was also limited by the self-selection bias.

There are tons of online disputes as to Wikipedia's reliability, accuracy, and lack of bias.

Some areas lack bias almost completely, like their excellent science entries; other areas, like the current war in Iraq or hot-button topics like abortion and religion, are often biased, sometimes vandalized, and always in dispute.

There is a slight Nintendo bias here, with loads of items for the Wii and DS Lite, but that could just be an indication of where sales are going.

Hindsight bias is 20-20 and it reveals that the iPhone sold very well, despite being only available from a single American carrier.

Conflicts of Interest - Do managers engage in any activities outside the company that may bias future decisions?

The latter had a bias against Papias on account of the influence which his work had in perpetuating, through Irenaeus and others, belief in a millennial reign of Christ upon earth.

The question as to which theory came first, whether Alcheringaism is a scientific effort that swept away All-Fatherism, or whether All-Fatherism is a religious reaction in despair of science and of the evolutionary doctrine, is settled by each inquirer in accordance with his personal bias.

The fact they blinded the goniometer was significant, as they reduced bias.

Numbers ending in " 5 " have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.

We found no significant increase in the detection efficiency for either radioisotope with the MCP bias polarity reversed.

In thus acting he proved himself a true follower of his great countryman Linnaeus; but, without disparagement of his efforts in this respect, it must be said that when internal and external characters appeared to be in conflict he gave, perhaps with unconscious bias, a preference to the latter, for he belonged to a school of zoologists whose natural instinct was to believe that such a.

The first doge elected in Rialto was Angelo Particiaco, a Heraclean noble, with a strong bias towards Byzantium, and his reign was signalized by the building of the first church of San Marco, and by the translation of the saint's body from Alexandria, as though to affirm and to symbolize the creation of united Venice.

That a philosopher like Justin, with a bias towards an Hellenic construction of the Christian religion, should nevertheless have accepted its chiliastic elements is the strongest proof that these enthusiastic expectations were inseparably bound up with the Christian faith down to the middle of the and century.

He came to England with his parents in 1799, but in1804-1805spent a winter with them at Weimar, where he met Goethe and Schiller, and received a bias to German literature which influenced his style and sentiments throughout his whole career.

The British government seemed, at one time, rather to favour a British participation, but when the terms of the convention were published, the strongest objection was taken to the constitution of the board of directors which established German control in perpetuity, while it was evident from the general tenor of the convention that a political bias informed the whole; in the end public feeling ran so high that any British participation became impossible.