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Bias
Bias
Bias is an inclination to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of alternatives. Bias can come in many forms.-In judgement and decision making:...

is an inclination towards something, or a predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, or predilection.

Bias may also refer to:

Social sciences

Cultural bias
Cultural bias
Cultural bias is the phenomenon of interpreting and judging phenomena by standards inherent to one's own culture. The phenomenon is sometimes considered a problem central to social and human sciences, such as economics, psychology, anthropology, and sociology...

, interpreting and judging phenomena in terms particular to one's own culture
Cognitive bias
Cognitive bias
A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgment that occurs in particular situations. Implicit in the concept of a "pattern of deviation" is a standard of comparison; this may be the judgment of people outside those particular situations, or may be a set of independently verifiable...

, any of a wide range of observer effects identified in cognitive science.
- See List of cognitive biases for a comprehensive list
Funding bias
Funding bias
The terms funding bias, sponsorship bias, funding outcome bias, or funding publication bias refer to an observed tendency of the conclusion of a scientific research study to support the interests of the study's financial sponsor. This phenomenon is recognized sufficiently that researchers undertake...

, bias relative to the commercial interests of a study's financial sponsor
Infrastructure bias
Infrastructure bias
In economics and social policy, infrastructure bias refers to the fact that the location and availability of pre-existing infrastructure such as roads and telecommunications facilities influences social and economic development.----...

, the influence of existing social or scientific infrastructure on scientific observations
Media bias
Media bias
Media bias refers to the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening the standards of journalism, rather than the...

, the influence journalists and news producers have in selecting stories to report and how they are covered
Publication bias
Publication bias
Publication bias is the tendency of researchers, editors, and pharmaceutical companies to handle the reporting of experimental results that are positive differently from results that are negative or inconclusive, leading to bias in the overall published literature...

, bias towards publication of certain experimental results

Mathematics and engineering

Bias (statistics) (disambiguation), the systematic distortion of a statistic
- Biased sample
  Biased sample
  In statistics, sampling bias is when a sample is collected in such a way that some members of the intended population are less likely to be included than others. It results in a biased sample, a non-random sample of a population in which all individuals, or instances, were not equally likely to...
  
  , a sample falsely taken to be typical of a population
- Estimator bias, a bias from an estimator whose expectation differs from the true value of the parameter
Exponent bias
Exponent bias
In IEEE 754 floating point numbers, the exponent is biased in the engineering sense of the word – the value stored is offset from the actual value by the exponent bias....

, the constant offset of an exponent's value
Birla Institute of Applied Sciences, Bhimtal
Birla Institute of Applied Sciences, Bhimtal
The Birla Institute of Applied Sciences, Bhimtal or BIAS, Bhimtal, is a sister concern of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India....

, is a sister concern of Birla Institute of Technology
Birla Institute of Technology
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra , is an autonomous engineering and technology oriented institute of higher education located in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India...

, Mesra, Ranchi, India.

Electricity

Biasing, a systematic deviation of a value from a reference value
Current bias, a steady-state current that is forced through an electronic device
Grid bias
Grid bias
Grid bias is a DC voltage applied to electron tubes with three electrodes or more, such as triodes. The control grid of these devices is used to control the electron flow from the heated cathode to the positively charged anode...

of a vacuum tube is used to control the electron flow from the heated cathode to the positively charged anode
Tape bias
Tape bias
Tape bias is the term for two phenomena, DC bias and AC bias, that improve the fidelity of analogue magnetic tape sound recordings. DC bias is the addition of a direct current to the audio signal that is being recorded. AC bias is the addition of an inaudible high-frequency signal to the audio...

(also AC bias), is a high-frequency signal (generally from 40 to 150 kHz) added to the audio signal recorded on an analog tape recorder
Voltage bias, a steady-state voltage inserted in series with an element of an electronic device

Places

Bias, Landes
Bias, Landes
Bias is a commune in the Landes department in Aquitaine in south-western France....

, in southwestern France
Bias, Lot-et-Garonne
Bias, Lot-et-Garonne
Bias is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in south-western France.-See also:*Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department...

, on the coast of southwestern France
Bias (genus), Wattle-eye bird

People

Bias of Priene
Bias of Priene
Bias , the son of Teutamus and a citizen of Priene was a Greek philosopher. Satyrus puts him as the wisest of all the Seven Sages of Greece. He was renowned for his goodness....

, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
Len Bias
Len Bias
Leonard Kevin "Len" Bias was a first team All-American college basketball player at the University of Maryland. He was selected by the Boston Celtics as the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA Draft on June 17, but died two days later from cardiac arrhythmia induced by a cocaine overdose...

(1963–1986), basketball player
Bias
Bias (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Bias was a brother of Melampus who received one third of Argos . Bias married his cousin Pero and had one child, Talaus, with her. When Pero died he remarried Iphianassa, daughter of Proetus, after Melampus had cured her from madness. He received one third of Proetus's kingdom...

, the brother of Melampus
Melampus
In Greek mythology, Melampus, or Melampous , was a legendary soothsayer and healer, originally of Pylos, who ruled at Argos. He was the introducer of the worship of Dionysus, according to Herodotus, who asserted that his powers as a seer were derived from the Egyptians and that he could understand...

in Greek mythology

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