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Subject for a media ombudsman
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bias
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Statistical bias is a feature of a statistical technique or of its results, whereby the expected value of the results differs from the true underlying quantitative parameter being estimated .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. 2 Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth. adv. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally. n. 1 (context countable uncountable English) inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from French biais "slant, slope, oblique," also figuratively, "expedient, means" (13c., originally in Old French a past participle adjective, "sideways, askance, against the grain"), which is of unknown origin, probably from Old Provençal biais , ...
Usage examples of bias.
I recollect his warmth of heart and high sense, and your beauty, gentleness, charms of conversation, and purely disinterested love for one whose great worldly advantages might so easily bias or adulterate affection, I own that I have no dread for your future fate, no feeling that can at all darken the brightness of anticipation.
If a cop is biased, sooner or later that bias is going to come out on the job, is what reporters say.
This is why so many people see the media as arrogant, elitist and biased, and why Mr.
The time has come to shift the debate from whether the news is biased to what can be done to correct it.
Fox hired John Ellis, and John Ellis, who is obviously biased, called the election for Bush.
We have to have the freedom to be biased or to believe whatever we believe, regardless of how wrong or objectionable others may think it is.
Consequently, investments large and small are accurately gauged in the current business, whereas estimates of their value are downwardly biased in a potential new business.
Among the most biased news sources were - no surprises here - the New York Times and the Washington Post.
He and his coadjutrix insinuated, that the treasurer was biassed in favour of the dissenters, and even that he acted as a spy for the house of Hanover.
It is by a pure effect of fancy and doctrinal bias that the parable has been perverted into a description of the Last Judgment.
The French national idea is democratic, but its democracy is rendered difficult by French national insecurity, and its value is limited by its equalitarian bias.
Bias, he bore all his fortune with him, but, in his case, it was carried under his arm.
A bias strip about eight inches wide and long enough to reach around the crown, plus three or four inches, should be joined on the lengthwise thread of the material.
Strictly speaking, ZUG means Pull, Tug, Draught, Procession, March, Progress, Flight, Direction, Expedition, Train, Caravan, Passage, Stroke, Touch, Line, Flourish, Trait of Character, Feature, Lineament, Chess-move, Organ-stop, Team, Whiff, Bias, Drawer, Propensity, Inhalation, Disposition: but that thing which it does NOT mean--when all its legitimate pennants have been hung on, has not been discovered yet.
It gives also an opening to snivel in public about persecutions by the magistrature, with impunity accused of bias and corruption.