bias

How does bias enter algorithms used in policing?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Researchers additionally performed sensitivity analyses to assess attrition bias.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

Under former Fed Chair Jerome Powell, for instance, bond markets tended to be more reactive to his press conferences rather than the policy bias from statements by the Federal Open Market Committee.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

The central bank is expected to leave the official cash rate unchanged at 4.35% while retaining a bias toward further tightening, as inflation remains above target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

When accused of racial bias, police and prosecutors—like most Americans—express horror and outrage.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Users of Chinese open-source models can tweak the models to bypass most censorship, though some say they can’t fully undo the influence of biases built into the training data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

The aim was to assess how their biases were affected by scene-by-scene content analysis of the racial representation of 29 popular kids shows and movies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

But after an investor has begun to participate in the markets, he or she may have developed biases that are hard to overcome.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

One of its core biases is that value stocks outperform growth stocks, which of course they haven’t for over a decade.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

And these differ from each other, sometimes dramatically, reflecting the authors’ biases and ignorance, and their informants’ manipulation of history to cast a flattering light on their family lines.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Researchers say that skewed ratio may be self-perpetuating: Because more boys are thought to have autism, diagnostic tools are biased toward boys’ autistic traits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Mikaela, who was supposed to judge the round with James, recused herself because she felt she would be too biased.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

As a Kiwi, I'm biased - but clearly Liam Lawson's been performing at Racing Bulls so far this year, and he's currently 'best of the rest' in the driver standings.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

He was freed after his conviction was overturned on procedural grounds, with the presiding judge also later ruled to have been biased.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Yet there is often a weak correlation between degrees of explicit and implicit bias; many people who think they are not biased prove when tested to have relatively high levels of bias.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Uninfluenced, un-in′flōō-enst, adj. not subject to, or acted upon by, influence: not biassed or prejudiced.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Travellers in general, and missionaries in particular, are biassed in several distinct ways.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

In′terested, having an interest or concern: affected or biassed by personal considerations, self-interest, &c.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

It may be inaccurate, and biassed and acrid, but it presents the family circle from within by one of themselves, and no more vivid picture can exist of that strange cockatrice brood of Pitts.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery

What impartial judge would allow his mind to be biassed by them, altered and garbled as they must unquestionably be, even supposing that their originals once existed?

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell

That meant that researchers could keep the organoids separated without biasing their experimental results.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2025

Much of the research in nutrition is funded by industry, which has been criticized for biasing the results.

From Salon ● May 1, 2025

But he told Reuters in an interview that the economy is biasing the central bank in that direction.

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023

Scientists who have internalized this concern may be subconsciously biasing their models to be unrealistically conservative.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2022

What are the results of such methods of biasing the mind?

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman

However, this is beside the question; and I want to avoid biassing your decision in any way.

From Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea by William Heysham Overend

Even if he was going to revise his views, was it right, was it candid, was it loyal to the truth, that he should revise them under the biassing influence of Meenie's eyes?

From Strange Stories by Grant Allen

He did not," he said, "state the impression upon his own mind with the purpose of biassing theirs.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott

There would be no harm in biassing me in her favour.

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton

But the truth is that, if we set aside matters of trivial import, the enormous majority of human judgments are those into which the biassing power off likes and dislikes more or less largely enters.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll