Biases can be innate or learned. People may develop biases for or against an individual, a group, or a belief. In science and engineering, a bias is...
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Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, or congeniality bias) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information...
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Leonard Kevin Bias (November 18, 1963 – June 19, 1986) was an American college basketball player for the Maryland Terrapins. In the last of his four years...
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A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their...
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In electronics, biasing is the setting of DC (direct current) operating conditions (current and voltage) of an electronic component that processes time-varying...
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Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm and/or rationality in judgment. They are often studied in psychology, sociology and behavioral...
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commercial bias, temporal bias, visual bias, bad news bias, narrative bias, status quo bias, fairness bias, expediency bias, class bias and glory bias (or the...
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Recency bias is a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones; a memory bias. Recency bias gives "greater importance to the most recent...
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Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did...
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In statistics and machine learning, the bias–variance tradeoff describes the relationship between a model's complexity, the accuracy of its predictions...
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BIAS (originally known as Berkley Integrated Audio Software) was a privately held corporation based in Petaluma, California. It ceased all business operations...
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In statistics, sampling bias is a bias in which a sample is collected in such a way that some members of the intended population have a lower or higher...
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Bias tape or bias binding is a narrow strip of fabric, typically plain weave, cut on the bias. As the weave of fabric is at a 45-degree angle, the resulting...
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Look up Bias or bias in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bias is an inclination toward something, or a predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference...
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Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along phenomenon or creeping determinism, is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having...
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Statistical bias, in the mathematical field of statistics, is a systematic tendency in which the methods used to gather data and generate statistics present...
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Tape bias is the term for two techniques, AC bias and DC bias, that improve the fidelity of analogue tape recorders. DC bias is the addition of direct...
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Selection bias is the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups, or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved...
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Optimism bias or optimistic bias is a cognitive bias that causes someone to believe that they themselves are less likely to experience a negative event...
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Proximity bias refers to the cognitive bias that people have a preference for things that are close in time and space. The common proverb, out of sight...
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Bias Capital, LLC (commonly known as Bias Capital) is an American venture capital firm that invests in both early-stage start-ups and established growth...
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A bias tee is a three-port network used for setting the DC bias point of some electronic components without disturbing other components. The bias tee...
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Gary Bias is an American saxophonist, flutist and composer. Bias is a longtime member of the Earth, Wind & Fire Horns. He born and raised in Los Angeles...
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Intentionality bias, which is known as intention bias for short, is a bias that makes people believe that all human behavior is intentional and that unconscious...
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Algorithmic bias describes systematic and repeatable errors in a computer system that create "unfair" outcomes, such as "privileging" one category over...
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degree of commercial bias. It has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and ideological bias. While its reliability...
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Attentional bias refers to how a person's perception is affected by selective factors in their attention. Attentional biases may explain an individual's...
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In electronics, cathode bias (also known as self-bias, or automatic bias) is a technique used with vacuum tubes to make the direct current (dc) cathode...
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A bias incident or hate incident is an act of hostility motivated by racism, religious intolerance, or other prejudice. A bias incident is different from...
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Substitution bias describes a possible bias in economic index numbers if they do not incorporate data on consumer expenditures switching from relatively...
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