bias
verb/ˈbaɪəs/
/ˈbaɪəs/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they bias | /ˈbaɪəs/ /ˈbaɪəs/ |
| he / she / it biases | /ˈbaɪəsɪz/ /ˈbaɪəsɪz/ |
| past simple biased | /ˈbaɪəst/ /ˈbaɪəst/ |
| past participle biased | /ˈbaɪəst/ /ˈbaɪəst/ |
| past simple biassed | /ˈbaɪəst/ /ˈbaɪəst/ |
| past participle biassed | /ˈbaɪəst/ /ˈbaɪəst/ |
| -ing form biasing | /ˈbaɪəsɪŋ/ /ˈbaɪəsɪŋ/ |
| -ing form biassing | /ˈbaɪəsɪŋ/ /ˈbaɪəsɪŋ/ |
- to unfairly influence somebody’s opinions or decisions synonym prejudice
- bias somebody/something (against somebody/something) The newspapers have biased people against her.
- bias somebody/something (towards/in favour of somebody/something) The report suggests that television reporting is biased towards the government in power.
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- bias something to have an effect on the results of research or an experiment so that they do not show the real situation
- The experiment contained an error which could bias the results.
- These errors may bias the statistics.
- The sequence of questions may bias the answers.
- Their methodology resulted in biased findings.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘oblique line’; also as an adjective meaning ‘oblique’): from French biais, from Provençal, perhaps based on Greek epikarsios ‘oblique’.
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