How To Use Bias In A Sentence

U.S. network CNN for what it called biased reports on political unrest and on the alleged assault and torture earlier this month of opposition leaders, including Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main ANC Daily News Briefing
With a full tank of fuel, the weight bias shifts rearwards slightly, which helps traction, as does the standard limited slip differential.
We all have implicit or unconscious biases that impact our behavior. Christianity Today
We examined publication bias and related biases in funnel plots and carried out a test of funnel plot asymmetry.
Amoebiasis can be prevented by good hygiene and sanitary conditions.

I must admit to being a biased Observor here, as I do relatively poorly with the math elements of Economics, and I have attempted a writing career of expressing Economics in nonmathematical terms. Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Cutting a continuous bias strip This is a quick way of cutting a long length of bias strip. Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
Scores of jurors were quickly dismissed yesterday as the judge tackled the daunting task of finding an unbiased jury. Times, Sunday Times
It is one of those biases, all the rage in academic circles right now, that explain many of the eccentricities of human behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
The committee is of a/has a conservative bias.
Complain about their bad grammar or poor choice of headlines or biased editorials.
Mugabe previously dismissed Tibaijuka's findings as "biassed" and a product of western pressures. ANC Daily News Briefing
Crystal has shown how this bias in linguistics carries over into lay views of language.
Still less can they accept impartial public broadcasting combined with a biased press and biased satellite television.
Most data sets utilized in the study of hereditary diseases are constructed around probands, making correction for ascertainment bias necessary; this set of data is no exception.
A single attack of dysentery may be "amoebiasis", which can be cured by a complete course of medication. Find Me A Cure
Did you know that the way that you wrap the yarn around the needle can affect the twist and cause the fabric to bias or that continental style knitting can aggravate carpal tunnel syndrome?
The elements selected from the confusion of conflicting movements have this different and very distinctive bias.
Any words that strike you as important or meaningful, words that you feel are stressed, biased, repeated or isolated.
An adjudicator must be, and must be seen to be, disinterested, unbiased and impartial.
Political bias - raw and wicked - blights American newspapers and TV news.
Participants were randomly assigned by an ‘adaptive biased coin’ technique, rather than simple equiprobable randomisation, to ensure balance of group numbers.
The minor 'phobias, such as pyrophobia, or fear of fire; stasophobia, or inability to arise and walk, the victims spending all their time in bed; toxicophobia or fear of poison, etc., will be left to the reader's inspection in special works on this subject. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Bias cut is the champions, one after another of the flow lines to emphasize certain sexy body parts.
At last, the author use the corpus and questionnaire survey to discovers the Vietnamese students' biased error give her advice for the department of teaching Chinese as a second language.
If it does not reject this biased report, it would vitiate itself, it would begin - or re-begin the process of vitiating itself from its own relevance and importance. CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2009
My bias stands on history, a history of near on 35 years on the front lines, cleaning up the messes mad by experts, carrying the agenda of whomever is paying the bill. An Evolutionary Model of Depression, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Sequential block designs can lead to biased allocation.
See, I'm just biased towards interferometers; -) ** One arcsecond is 1/60th of an arcminute, and one arcminute is 1/60th of a degree. First Stellar Images
They derive all their income from product providers, which presents a huge conflict of interest in trying to provide unbiased information. Times, Sunday Times
This explains why the initial idea about the constitutive elements of civil society here was fairly urban-biased and middle class-related.
O'BRIEN: Tobias Hollerer is demonstrating something he calls augmented reality -- three-dimensional graphics inserted into the real world using computers that you wear. CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2007
Much of this reflects the entrenched acute-service bias of the National Health Service, and major change would have far-reaching implications.
A good self-esteem level is mostly dependent on how we value ourselves without any bias. Stephen Richards
It is difficult to override a deep-rooted cultural bias.
What attachments to the homestead shall thus inweave themselves about the hearts of those whose interests and life are cast with it -- and still more, of those who go forth from it, by taste, inclination, or bias, into the more bustling centres of competition and trade! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Neaten outer edge of bias strip or turn under raw edge.
The nation is first, and the plea is accurst That fosters a bias; its claims to obtend. Canadian Assimilation
Certainly the Cambrian record is deeply biased in favour of shelly fossils, as revealed by the exceptionally preserved Burgess Shale and Chengjiang biotas, where the vast majority of taxa and individuals were non-biomineralizing.
The term biased refers to a person or group who is judged to exhibit bias. Yahoo! Sports - Top News
Inner city initiatives exhibit a similar bias against local government.
It is an area of study with a strong academic bias, the foundations of which were none the less in local exploration.
As a result of this selection being chosen, testing for a liberal media bias, whether one views it as an assertion or an assumption was not within the purveyance of this study.
We should not rake the current religious bias regnant in America today as necessarily universal for all cultures.
As a self-confessed occasional HYS commenter on the BBC, it seems even their 'moderators' are tarnished by the bias and the 'house rules' are taken from their 'little labour book of creating wooly, abusable, and loopholed and rules and laws'. OPEN THREAD
Another possible origin of positive feedback is the finite internal impedance of the bias supply.
Hamsters reared in the laboratory can be made to have female-biased litters by keeping them hungry during adolescence or pregnancy.
As the sex ratio in the adult population of mallards tends to be biased toward males, some males remain unpaired during the breeding season.
The fact that nearly a quarter of respondents saw through the bias is itself impressive.
It is interesting to note that of the 18 homophones that were common to both experiments, the same response bias was observed in 16 of them.
The signing of Tendulkar was described as a whitewash merely to cover racial bias.
Its concern with celebrating femininity encourages it to pass over more of traditional psychology's gender biases than egalitarian feminist psychology does.
_ "The word drummed in his ears as he pelted to 'Bias's rescue. Hocken and Hunken
To eliminate the variable of aesthetic and perceptual bias, they also included some mirror-images.
Schanzer's language bias is clearly demonstrated when he says that the "United Nations General Assembly partition plan ... endowed the Palestinian Arabs with a state that included an expanded Gaza strip, the West Bank, and much of the northern territory. [emphasis added]" How considerate for sure, to be "endowed" with only portions of your own homeland, while a minority of the population, immigrants at that, is given a majority of the land. Book Review - Hamas vs. Fatah
Is this clear evidence of gender bias in the manual?
The issue of bias cohabiting with immense media power was on the table.
For Jason is proving, albeit from his grave, that death does not absolve bias.
It is unlikely that the remaining unsampled areas of the developing countries in tropical climates, or other highly populated parts of Europe, could significantly increase the overall urban bias above 0.05C during the 20th century. The 1930s are getting Colder « Climate Audit
Because of its strong enhancing effect it leaves a noticeable magenta colour bias in the more neutral hues or tones (the whites and greys).
KURTZ: But that goes to the broader point, which is one of the reasons this story has resonated, there is a widespread belief among critics, the BBC was sort of against the war, its reporting has been biased, and that they seized on this weapons of mass destruction story to kind of vindicate their point of view. CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2003
One example of stereotyping bias is the textbook portrayal of people of color only in paraprofessional roles (ie, as aides who assist professionals).
He had a right to be biassed, and assume that getting him here was a large and important undertaking-but it was a fair assumption. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
The interrogating carbineer who is invested, during such preliminary enquiries, with quasi-judicial functions -- being permitted to assume the role of prosecuting or defending counsel, or to remain sternly unbiased, as he feels inclined -- desired to learn how he had come by this jewel. South Wind
The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing is a product of the pointy-headed wowsers at the Association of American University Presses who established a Task Force on Bias-Free Language filled with cranks, pokenoses, blowhards, four-flushers, and pettifogs. P.J. O’Wowser
Phobias fall under the category of anxiety disorders and describe pathological fears; while many know the term from the infamous expression "arachnophobia" pathological fear of spiders, many different types of phobias have been observed in patients. Jalees Rehman, M.D.: 'Islamophobia' Is Not A Phobia
While there is likely some rightward political bias, the magnitude of the bias might not be that significant.
A novel under-voltage lockout circuit is proposed which could generate reference voltage and bias current itself, and could stabilize lockout threshold voltage and hysteresis quality.
To ensure that measurements were unbiased by the experimenters' expectations, the image files were randomly coded.
The state-specific random swing factor determines which states have their electoral college votes allocated according to biased coin flips after the national random swing factor is applied. Wolfram Blog : Analyzing U.S. 2008 Elections with Mathematica
There will also be a bias in favour of SMEs when Government research funding is allocated.
And where does the dividing line lie between racial bias and crude, alcoholic thuggery? Times, Sunday Times
Furthermore, a priori assumptions in phylogenetic analyses, such as long-branch attraction can bias phylogenetic tree analysis. A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria
Many industry watchers were dumbfounded at the overt bias and political boosterism.
Americans also have a strong technological bias, and are a people of tools and gadgets, so to speak.
You're a biased party, the parents of the vic, and you're to go nowhere near this case or we'll slap you with obstruction. THE KILL CLAUSE
The Department has a strong bias towards neuroscience.
If a word stirs your feelings in one way and those of some of your readers in another, you cannot use that word safely; in spite of the most careful definitions and disclaimers the emotional bias will creep in and twist the effect of your words in the minds of some of your audience. The Making of Arguments
He believes that such behavior results from personality traits such as narcissism as well as a memory bias.
That would introduce a bias toward heart trouble among calcium channel blocker users.
Inadequate allocation concealment can bias the results of clinical trials.
It is not anti-military, but it does reflect–to a biassed extent–the "ugly American" construal of US intervention in global affairs. Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion
If children have been living or holidaying in poorer countries causes such as amoebiasis or worm infections should be considered.
When we were issued with our badges I can assure you that they had a Lancastrian bias.
The assumptions that our estimates of the proportion of eyries associated with geese and the proportion of geese that nested with falcons are unbiased can be confirmed only by data collected from other areas.
And maybe this is an error of bias on my behalf, but when I hear the term citizenship, "nation-state" citizenship is the last thing on my mind. Digital Citizenship – Criticisms & Conversations « open thinking
A good self-esteem level is mostly dependent on how we value ourselves without any bias. Stephen Richards
We are attempting to use examples of media bias to raise awareness of the deep systemic corruption afflicting the media.
Incorporation of any such existent data would surely bias our analysis.
We are biased of course, but she had a lovely nature. Times, Sunday Times
In the balance of nature there must be an opposite bias. Infinite in All Directions
While claiming to give unbiased information to consumers, the sites inevitably face conflicts of interest. Times, Sunday Times
The newspaper has a clear bias towards the Conservative Party.
The Newsnight programme was shocking both for its self-aggrandisement and its celebration of unfair bias. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
Its account of events was piecemeal and its analysis was biased.
The government has accused the media of bias.
As I understand it it can all be sorted out, but you are — I suspect unintentionally and in good faith — offering a bit of a straw man due to your not distinguishing a few key concepts, such as prudentialism versus constitutional judgment, empathy for a legal injustice versus sympathy resulting in bias, and a judge versus a justice. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:
O'Reilly's criticisms of PBS were mostly the same as his criticisms of NPR -- namely, that the public broadcaster is a biased, "far-left" network that excludes conservative voices and thus should not be the recipient of any taxpayer money. Bill O'Reilly: PBS Funding Should Be Cut Too (VIDEO)
Their favourite was the rose, followed by hellebores, peonies, clematis, magnolias, lilies, euphorbias, primulas, snowdrops, geraniums.
In this paper, a monolithic thermal vacuum sensor based on a micro-hotplate(MHP)and operating under constant bias voltage conditions was designed.
John King's Sunday programming, State of the Union, is a benchmark in unbiased newscasting of current events – I hope his replacement program of Lou Dobbs maintains the high standards he has established with State of the Union. walter keller John King to replace Lou Dobbs
I am neurochemist-turned-attorney who just expected a little more by way of factual support for Carter's bias or lies a Clinton-esque lie for example. "Being a former President does not give one a unique privilege to invent information..."
The Morgan Stanley suit is thought to have been the first to allege workplace bias via electronic mail.
However, I am biasedly encouraged by the recent developments you have pointed out on a Twistor-string Theory that have occurred since The Road to Reality was written. Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
This paper shows that under certain conditons it is possible to diminish and even eliminate the nonlinear distorsion of a peak envelope detector by biasing the diode adequately.
I shall view it as a principle that operates without any bias towards the emergence of certain sorts of organ.
WSJ music critic Jim Fusilli introduces you to the 'Gee-Bees', the generationally biased among us who rarely attribute their affection for the music of their youth to fond memories. Music Sales, Show Tickets Rose in 2011
It is the relative subjective costs of falsely believing p and ~p that explains why desire or other motivation biases belief in some circumstances and not others. Self-Deception
White Americans saw an even steeper decline in antiblack bias: to 3.6 in the 2000s from 9.1 in the '50s, but they perceived antiwhite bias shooting up to 4.7 from 1.8 in that period. Week in Ideas
The same year that the shaping machine was invented - 1871 - the Company introduced the world's first testing table for bias of bowls.
Lydia has a strong artistic bias.
Today they recognize that human foibles, biases and our hunter - gatherer origins can often be critical factors.
Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » How Does the (US) News Shape the Way We See the World (tags: media MSM ignorance-by-avoidance bias journalism visualization cartogram openness education) ... How Does the (US) News Shape the Way We See the World « open thinking
The drive against political correctness includes plans to revise the curriculum for primary and secondary pupils to correct a perceived bias towards left-wing thinking. Times, Sunday Times
The newsweeklies can hardly get their biased pieces onto news-stands nowadays before they're discredited.
The thing about this biography is that it is not fair, it is unbalanced and it is biased, and it is what John Howard would call a ‘black armband biography’.
It claims conservatism is rooted in phobias that cause ‘fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity.’
Heath Ledger, this opinion not being bias towards his death, changed his acting style overnight to do something incredible in molding the Joker into something you feared and shivered at every time you saw him in a scene. Sound Off: The Dark Knight - What Did You Think?! « FirstShowing.net
Bayesian 'suggested the implausible image of a process that gets the correct answer, then adulterates it with a bias. Daniel Kahneman - Autobiography
The report accuses the ombudsman of ignoring evidence, dragging out investigations for years and being biased in favour of the NHS. Times, Sunday Times
The appearance of bias as a result of a pre-determination or prejudgment was a recognised ground of recusal. Times, Sunday Times
Training could change the cognitive and attentional biases.
In response, three states have adopted public financing systems to reduce the public's impression of bias in their states' elected judiciaries: New Mexico, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Doug Kendall: Will the Supreme Court Prevent Citizens United From Being Fixed?
A possible reason for the failure of previous studies to consistently obtain similar results may well be due to sampling bias.
But there is an actuality of financial interest which justifies disqualification because of the potential for bias, the fear of bias, or, if you like, overcompensation the other way.
Court of Appeals judges considered the bias issue and also raised concerns about technical aspects of Jackson's ruling.
Unlike Little et al, we are not worried that the artificial use of throat swabs and medication tray biased the recording of symptoms in the diary.
The coherence theory builds in a metaphysical bias towards monism: the idea that everything we know should somehow form one massive ‘complete theory of everything’.
We used a low dose of the drug to prevent catastrophic depolymerization of actin and major morphological changes, which both would have biased our analysis.
It is really important that judges show no favour and no bias.
The density of the population figures by county shows a decided bias in favour of East Anglia.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Given data which are free from bias there are further snares to avoid in statistical work.
School leaders also have a responsibility to tackle unconscious bias where it creeps in. Times, Sunday Times
Under the law, there is a provision whereby judges can recuse themselves - that is, stand aside on the grounds of apparent bias.
First, it applies to the fertilization of humans only, not other animals -- not a negligible consideration, but still a biased, that is, a homocentric one. ProLifeBlogs
An obvious question is whether the mat bias is absent in azygotic meiosis after homologous chromosomes have coexisted in diploid cells for many mitotic divisions.
Scores of jurors were quickly dismissed yesterday as the judge tackled the daunting task of finding an unbiased jury. Times, Sunday Times
Against the positive backdrop, many people had expected a good run in Asian bourses on Monday, but surprisingly, they were generally range-bound with a mild upward bias on bargain-hunting interest offsetting a bout of profit-taking activity. Undefined
The whole emphasis is placed on the terms being negated, thereby reflecting a profound bias towards aggression as the norm.
For I question not, but God can so qualify and determine the will of a rational agent, (and that without the least diminution to its natural freedom,) that the inclination and bias of it shall wholly propend to good, and that from a mere love of goodness itself, without any consideration of a further recompence. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
The methods they employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour.
What worried Ross was a dangerous bias.
He added his approval to the proposed monetary awards for Leonhard Euler and the widow of Tobias Mayer.
The last includes both free-choice behavior in the apparent absence of biasing information, as done in restricted-choice ESP tests, and conation or striving as is done in PK tests.
What people did to me might hurt as well, but I would not carry their narrow-mindedness or bias as my burden.
She has a strong musical bias.
The industrial bias of canal building can be readily perceived by looking at Figure 7.3.
The UN Human Rights Council machers then recruited richard goldstone, a Vain south african Jewish judge, who despite being aware from the outset of the biased composition of the panel, permitted himself to be used as a fig leaf to provide credibility to the Israel bashers. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Woman-centred psychologists also criticize the gender bias of traditional psychological method.
Hence our new, more direct approach offering unbiased advice. Times, Sunday Times
a biased account of the trial
Psychological theories support two main forms of gender bias.
‘Stop being such a lubber about it,’ Tobias sighed but said nothing as Kennedy and the gunner, Gallagher entered the room.
Cognitive models focus on maladaptive or biased thought processes, whereas interpersonal models focus on social difficulties and stressful interpersonal environments as precipitants of psychopathology.
Many cultures bias their legacies, parental care, sustenance, and favoritism toward sons at the expense of daughters.
Place the fabric on the cutting mat, refolding it to align the cut bias edges.
The senators seemed to have no idea they were describing themselves when they tried to caricature Sotomayor as an overemotional, biased ideologue. Sunday Reading
Only in this way can the unprejudiced and unbiased position of the Times be understood.
Simple phobias can often be traced back to specific traumatic experiences. POSITIVELY FEARLESS: Breaking free of the fears that hold you back
Their favourite was the rose, followed by hellebores, peonies, clematis, magnolias, lilies, euphorbias, primulas, snowdrops, geraniums.
Most studies of professions based on the process model have been biased towards Anglo-American experiences.
Most importantly, the risk of eccentric or biased jurors convicting the innocent or acquitting the guilty also would be reduced. Times, Sunday Times
The global warming postulate is based almost entirely on models, and today's models are deliberately biased to support global warming. Trust the Experts: A Reasonable, Defeasible Presumption, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
An increasingly educated electorate can spot bias with greater acumen and astuteness than ever before.
Nine other studies were not included because they were not randomized, double-blind trials, meaning that their results could be biased.
These two quantities, standard error and bias, are integrated by the measure of root mean-square error.
The President excoriated the Western press for their biased views.
Chapter 2 provides an exhaustive review of problems with selection bias.
This is by no means an unbiased book, which makes it a delight to dip into casually. Times, Sunday Times
Such examination and subsequent awareness is not always easy because people have a tendency to be blind to their bias or ethnocentric perspectives.
Heaven will enable me to be reconciled to the event, because I pursue the dictates of that judgment, against the biasses of my more partial heart Sir Charles Grandison
It shows that there is no unified front even within the field of conjuring and that personal biases can affect the theory and, therefore, the understanding of methods.
Laurie undergoes a series of trials, trying to find some backbone against his phobias, while singing TV jingles.
One reason is "survivor bias"—having survived not only the bombings but homelessness, hunger and a typhoon in the immediate aftermath, the subjects may be a hardier lot than the Japanese population at large. Coal Is More Dangerous Than Nuclear
The fact that we were dealing with professionals, including RNs, physicians, architects, and designers, did not mean that their behaviors were without bias or partiality.
This partiality, monochromatism and bias could have been found in the Slovak press before 1989," he stated. Slovak Spectator
With interesting applications here for diagnosis, therapy models and possibly even pharmaceuticals, the authors concluded that "the absence of this protective bias in short-allele carriers is likely to be linked with the heightened susceptibility to mood disorders such as depression and anxiety that has been reported in this group. MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada
There were fierce attacks on the BBC for alleged political bias.
Tobias the cat lived in harmony with Daisy the Border collie, Timmy the mouse, and a peep of chickens.
This report is incredibly biased. The field judge who disqualified Yang is a Filipino judge of Korean decent.
This multidirectional form of crisis communication allowed the audience to compare and evaluate different sources and to understand better the biases of official information.
Good for unbiased opinions on, say, a gadget you might buy. Times, Sunday Times
During quality assessment, 233 references were excluded because they failed to report design features that limit the introduction of bias or were conducted in a non-target population such as gnotobiotic, neonatal, nursery, or recently weaned pigs and sows. ThePigSite - Industry News
Hamsters reared in the laboratory can be made to have female-biased litters by keeping them hungry during adolescence or pregnancy.
Devised in Norway, this is an amalgam of traditional approaches and Western psychology, with no religious bias.
Unfortunately, we did not anticipate the importance of observer bias, and we did not arrange for third party blinded observation.
An alternative with a strong constitutional law bias is Hartley and Griffith's Government and Law.
This also generates a bias signal required by the delay line chip.
Their attempts to provide more objective methods do not challenge the gender bias involved in psychological notions of objectivity.
Unfortunately, we have politicized the process of divorce, so abuse and bias will be even stronger now.
In the past our society imposed very strict codes of behavior, biased especially against women.
He takes the greatest interest in what goes on, feeling with and for me, and yet abstaining as he ought from biassing me either way, though we talk much on the subject, and his judgment is, as you say, good and mild .... The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
Silently, freely, and with no biassing influence, in the unapproachable chambers of her own thoughts did she weigh the real character of Eaverson, as far as she could understand it, against what was merely external and personal. Married Life: its shadows and sunshine
Over at Overcoming Bias, the smartest man I know argues that we underestimate the quality of women's lives - and overestimate the quality of men's lives - because the genders have different propensities to complain. The Social Psychology of Gender Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The slides were finally mounted with coverslips and coded for analysis to avoid bias.
Nearly all of them were cut on the bias, so that the fabric skimmed the body rather than clinging to it. Times, Sunday Times
A person in this stage also participates in transforming racial and cultural stereotypes, biases, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors.
The second is that if these problems arose, the companies activated a response plan to halt the suspected violation immediately, to investigate the circumstances thoroughly and in an unbiased manner and to penalize guilty perpetrators according to preestablished guidelines. How Companies Should Handle Office Romance
Objectivity does not depend on each of us being severally devoid of extra-disciplinary values; competition and collaboration neutralize the distorting effects of any one scholar's biases.

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