Bias vs. Biased — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bias and Biased
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Bias
Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair. Biases can be innate or learned.
Biased
Marked by or exhibiting bias; prejudiced
Gave a biased account of the trial.
Bias
A line going diagonally across the grain of fabric
Cut the cloth on the bias.
Biased
Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.
Bias
A preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment.
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Biased
Angled at a slant.
The table had a biased edge.
Bias
An unfair act or policy stemming from prejudice.
Biased
(electrical engineering) On which an electrical bias is applied.
Bias
A statistical sampling or testing error caused by systematically favoring some outcomes over others.
Biased
(statistics) Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.
Bias
A weight or irregularity in a ball that causes it to swerve, as in lawn bowling.
Biased
Simple past tense and past participle of bias
She biased them against him for no apparent reason.
Bias
The tendency of such a ball to swerve.
Biased
Favoring one person or side over another;
A biased account of the trial
A decision that was partial to the defendant
Bias
The fixed voltage applied to an electrode.
Biased
Excessively devoted to one faction
Bias
Slanting or diagonal; oblique
A bias fold.
Bias
To influence in a particular, typically unfair direction.
Bias
To apply a small voltage to (a grid).
Bias
Inclination towards something.
Bias
The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
Bias
A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
Bias
(electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
Bias
(statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
Bias
(sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
Bias
(South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
Bias
(transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.
Our prejudices bias our views.
Bias
(electronics) To give a bias to.
Bias
Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
Bias
Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
Bias
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
To cut cloth bias
Bias
A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.
Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away.
Bias
A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts.
Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions.
Bias
A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
Bias
A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
Bias
Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
Bias
Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
Bias
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
Bias
To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction.
Bias
A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
Bias
A line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
Bias
Influence in an unfair way;
You are biasing my choice by telling me yours
Bias
Cause to be biased
Bias
Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric;
A bias fold
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