bias Examples

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Examples of bias in a Sentence

Examples of bias
1. Outside lay emancipated Berrytown, to unemancipated Kitty only a dumb panorama: inside, her meals, her lessons and perpetual consultations with her mother on bias folds and gussets while they made their dresses or sewed for the Indian missions.
2. Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not draw too much.
3. Fox News is often cited as an example of conservative media bias, yet its viewers claim it is CNN that is guilty of liberal media bias.
4. Tentatively, the market sentiment on May 5, 2004 could be described as favoring greater stability around the forward, however with a bias for a dollar depreciation. This is only a snap shot of expectations.
5. Whereas for the turning bias (contra- and ipsiversive turns) both drugs interacted according to an additive mode (non significant “Radiprodil x Tozadenant” statistical interaction).
6. In contrast, she mindreads with a negative bias--"clearly (sic) he thinks."
7. This study [ …] used three general HRQOL instruments and a recently validated disease-specific questionnaire that minimized the risk of monomethod bias.
Examples of biases
1. There are, however, reasons to believe that aquatic or semiaquatic habits were more widespread among eureptiles than traditionally assumed and that the exclusion of aquatic or semi-aquatic taxa biases the analyses.
Examples of biased
1. The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.
2. The table had a biased edge.
3. She biased them against him for no apparent reason.
4. A toss of loaded dice is still random, though biased.
5. Self-conscious maternalists like Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins ensured that New Deal programs were biased in favor of traditional two-parent families.
6. Okay. I'm a bit of a Snape bore, & have read most of the good and bad ones that come out on ff.net. Here's a biased account of which I think are good. [ …] 'I was Right' by Earthwalk. Widely considered the best Snapefic ther[sic] is.
7. Indeed, 29% of protein-coding genes have been shown to exhibit significant sex-biased expression in Drosophila, and up to 20% of Drosophila multitranscript genes display sex-biased expression of alternative transcripts.
8. Although weighting strategies were used to optimize the representativity of the general population, it is plausible that our results were biased because persons with a history of mental disorders might have been less likely to participate.
Examples of biasing
1. Measuring genital response can be embarrassing for participants, possibly biasing both sample recruitment and subsequent reactions to stimuli: individuals willing to undergo such testing procedures may not be representative members of the population at large, and may be more or less inclined to respond to verboten stimuli (such as pre- or circumpubertal children) during testing.
2. Kilocalories, a heavy right-skewed variable, were log-transformed to help robustize inference, and also, importantly, to avoid a few large observations from biasing results.