Bias vs. Skew — What's the Difference?

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.

To turn or place at an angle

A line going diagonally across the grain of fabric

To give a bias to; distort

A preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment.

To take an oblique course or direction.

An unfair act or policy stemming from prejudice.

To look obliquely or sideways.

A statistical sampling or testing error caused by systematically favoring some outcomes over others.

To display a statistical tendency toward

A weight or irregularity in a ball that causes it to swerve, as in lawn bowling.

Placed or turned to one side; asymmetric.

The tendency of such a ball to swerve.

Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.

The fixed voltage applied to an electrode.

Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.

Slanting or diagonal; oblique

(Mathematics) Neither parallel nor intersecting. Used of straight lines in space.

To influence in a particular, typically unfair direction.

(Statistics) Not symmetrical about the mean. Used of distributions.

To apply a small voltage to (a grid).

An oblique or slanting movement, position, or direction.

Inclination towards something.

(transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.

(statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

(transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.

(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.

To hurl or throw.

(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.

(intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.

(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.

(intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.

(South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.

(intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

(transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.

(not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.

(electronics) To give a bias to.

Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.

Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

(rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.

In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

Something that has an oblique or slanted position.

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.

An oblique or sideways movement.

A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.

A squint or sidelong glance.

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.

A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.

A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

A bias or distortion in a particular direction.

Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

(electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.

In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.

(statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.

To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.

(architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.

A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

The coping of a gable.

A line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.

Influence in an unfair way;

Awry; obliquely; askew.

Cause to be biased

Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; - chiefly used in technical phrases.

Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric;

A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.

To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.

To start aside; to shy, as a horse.

To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

To throw or hurl obliquely.

Turn or place at an angle;

Having an oblique or slanting direction or position;