bias's Usage Examples:

His temper was naturally that of a trimmer; and he had thus many qualifications for the writing of well-informed and unbiassed history.

Wells, Adams's great-grandson - a valuable biography, containing a mass of information, but noticeably biassed; J.

Our long shot bias is more controlled because we have bookies dictating prices that we can have rather than a free flowing pool bet.

You will work on a mixed caseload with a property bias.

Here the Thai state drew strength from longstanding official international biases against swidden cultivation, mobile populations and highlanders ' forestry practices.

Worked double current - that is, with the tongue set neutral, having no bias either to the spacing or marking side - the relay will give good signals with 12 milliampere of current, though in practice 10 milliamperes are provided.

Freemans bias was peculiar; he is really a West Saxon of Godwines time reincarnated, and his Somerset hatred of French, Scots and Mercian foreigners sets off his robust loyalty to the house of Wessex.

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

The first impression of an unbiassed reader who dips into the poems of Donne is unfavourable.

Another area of the brain that appears to be linked to phobias is the posterior cerebellum.

4) causes the queen to remonstrate, in reply to her lady's suggestion of a game at bowls to relieve her ennui, "'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs, and that my fortune runs against the bias.

Thus it seems impossible, and for many unwise, to presume that anyone has a privileged and unbiased epistemological standpoint.

7-9), however, are read in the offertory; and Tobias and Sarah once occupied the position now held by Abraham and Sarah in the marriage service.

Synonyms:

prejudice, taboo, partiality, partisanship, irrational hostility, experimenter bias, tabu, racism, tendentiousness, Islamophobia, preconception, homophobia,

Antonyms:

dislike, fairness, profane, permissible, impartiality,