personal bias
11Personal equation — The personal equation, in 19th and early 20th century science, referred to the idea that every individual observer had an inherent bias when it came to measurements and observations. The term originated in astronomy, when it was discovered that… …
12bias — I. noun Etymology: Middle French biais Date: 1530 1. a line diagonal to the grain of a fabric; especially a line at a 45 degree angle to the selvage often utilized in the cutting of garments for smoother fit 2. a. a peculiarity in the shape of a… …
13bias — Synonyms and related words: a thing for, aberrancy, aberration, across, affect, affinity, angle, angle off, animus, aptitude, aptness, aslant, aslope, athwart, atilt, bag, bear off, bend, bend to, bendwise, bent, bevel, beveled, biased, biaswise …
14personal interview — /ˌpɜ:s(ə)n(ə)l ɪntəvju:/ noun an act of questioning respondents in a survey directly, by meeting them ● The advantage of a personal interview is that we have the chance to explain the questions. ● It’s possible that interviewers’ bias may… …
15Media bias — Part of a series on Censorship By media …
16Confirmation bias — (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.[Note 1][1] As a result, people gather evidence and recall …
17Optimism bias — is the demonstrated systematic tendency for people to be overly optimistic about the outcome of planned actions. This includes over estimating the likelihood of positive events and under estimating the likelihood of negative events. Along with… …
18Len Bias — Infobox NBA Player nickname = caption = Bias after being selected in the 1986 NBA Draft. position = Forward height ft = 6 height in = 8 weight lb = 210 nationality = USA birth date = birth date|1963|11|18 birth place = Landover, Maryland death… …
19Experimenter's bias — In experimental science, experimenter s bias is subjective bias towards a result expected by the human experimenter. David Sackett,[1] in a useful review of biases in clinical studies, states that biases can occur in any one of seven stages of… …
20Media bias in the United States — Journalism News · Writing style Ethics · Objectivity Values · …
