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Bias (disambiguation)

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

Bias may also refer to:

Scientific method and statistics

  • The bias introduced into an experiment through a confounder
  • Algorithmic bias, machine learning algorithms that exhibit politically unacceptable behavior
  • Cultural bias, interpreting and judging phenomena in terms particular to one's own culture
  • Funding bias, bias relative to the commercial interests of a study's financial sponsor
  • Reactivity, may result in a bias when participants behave differently when they know they are being observed. In survey research this is sometimes called response bias.
  • Demand characteristics, is when participants change their behaviour to fit their interpretation of the experiment's purpose
  • Observer-expectancy effect, is when researcher expectations influence participant behaviour (see also Pygmalion effect)
  • Social-desirability bias, is when participants adapt their behaviour to what they perceive to be social norms and expectations
  • Hawthorne effect, often relates to improving performance in response to an intervention
  • John Henry effect, sometimes relates to a behavioural change due to rivalry between groups, which may have negative outcomes
  • Infrastructure bias, the influence of existing social or scientific infrastructure on scientific observations
  • Publication bias, bias toward publication of certain experimental results
  • Bias (statistics), the systematic distortion of a statistic
  • Biased sample, 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
  • Personal equation, a concept in 19th- and early 20th-century science that each observer had an inherent bias when it came to measurements and observations
  • Reporting bias, a bias resulting from what is and is not reported in research, either by participants in the research or by the researcher.

Cognitive science

Mathematics and engineering

  • Exponent bias, the constant offset of an exponent's value
  • Inductive bias, the set of assumptions that a machine learner uses to predict outputs of given inputs that it has not encountered.
  • Weight and bias, two terms used to describe parameters in a neural network.
  • Seat bias, any bias in a method of apportionment that favors either large or small parties over the other

Electricity

  • Biasing, a voltage or current added to an electronic device to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function
  • Grid bias of a vacuum tube, used to control the electron flow from the heated cathode to the positively charged anode
  • Tape bias (also AC bias), a high-frequency signal (generally from 40 to 150 kHz) added to the audio signal recorded on an analog tape recorder

Places

People

  • Bias (mythology), multiple figures in Greek mythology
  • Bias Brahmin, a Brahmin community found in India
  • Bias of Priene, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
  • Bias, a Spartan commander caught in an ambush by the Athenian general Iphicrates
  • Fanny Bias (1789–1825), French dancer, one of the first who raised on pointes
  • Len Bias (1963–1986), American basketball player
  • Oliver Bias (born 2001), footballer
  • Tiffany Bias (born 1992), Thai basketball player

Organisations

In other areas

See also