0 the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment: --
She showed a scientific bias at an early age.
Unconscious bias (= that the person with the bias is not aware of) can influence decisions in recruitment, promotion, and performance management.
There has always been a slight bias in favour of/towards employing liberal arts graduates in the company.
1 a direction at an angle across the threads of woven material: --
2 to cause someone or something to have a bias: --
3 an unfair personal opinion that influences your judgment: --
4 the fact of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment in an unfair way: --
bias in favour of sb/sth The company showed a marked bias in favour of employing men.
bias against sb/sth The email suggested a clear bias against American products.
gender/racial bias a federal law prohibiting gender and racial bias in employment
In her view, none of the interview panel had shown any bias.
5 the fact of preferring someone or something: --
The purpose was otherwise, thus no deliberate selection bias is entailed.
A general gender bias in aspergillosis cases was evident, with rates in males outnumbering those in females for most age groups.
The standard methods are therefore biased, but the magnitude of this bias is unclear.
The fluid particles avoid moving near the fixed wall y = 0, so that as they emerge from the origin they are biased towards the vertical.
However, differences in these biases from one epidemic season to another are unlikely.
This excitatory bias is an order parameter for the induction of state transitions in cortical itinerancy.
This did, however, bias the participants in an unprecedented, at times embarrassing, way.
In our context, their suggestions imply that a likelihood approach with random variety effects reduces bias in the estimation of (fixed) year effects.