Bias (disambiguation)

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Bias is an inclination towards something, or a predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, or predilection.

Bias may also refer to:

Social sciences

• Confirmation bias, tendency of people to favor information that confirm their beliefs of hypothesis
• Cognitive bias, any of a wide range of observer effects identified in cognitive science.
  • See List of cognitive biases for a comprehensive list
• Cultural bias, interpreting and judging phenomena in terms particular to one's own culture
• Funding bias, bias relative to the commercial interests of a study's financial sponsor
• Infrastructure bias, the influence of existing social or scientific infrastructure on scientific observations
• Media bias, the influence journalists and news producers have in selecting stories to report and how they are covered
• Publication bias, bias towards publication of certain experimental results

Mathematics and engineering

• Bias (statistics), the systematic distortion of a statistic
  • Biased sample, a sample falsely taken to be typical of a population
  • Estimator bias, a bias from an estimator whose expectation differs from the true value of the parameter
• Exponent bias, the constant offset of an exponent's value

Electricity

• Biasing, a voltage or current added to an electronic device to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function
• Grid bias of a vacuum tube, used to control the electron flow from the heated cathode to the positively charged anode
• Tape bias (also AC bias), a high-frequency signal (generally from 40 to 150 kHz) added to the audio signal recorded on an analog tape recorder

Places

• Bias, Landes, on the coast in southwestern France
• Bias, Lot-et-Garonne, in southwestern France
• Bias Bay, now called Daya Bay, in China's Guangdong Province
• Bias, West Virginia, a community in the United States

People

• Bias of Priene, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
• Fanny Bias (1789—1825), French dancer, one of the first who raised on pointes
• Len Bias (1963–1986), basketball player
• Bias (mythology), the brother of Melampus in Greek mythology
• Bias Brahmin, a Brahmin community found in India

In other areas

• BIAS (Berkley Integrated Audio Software), a software company specializing in sound processing software such as Peak and SoundSoap
• Bias (book), a book by journalist Bernard Goldberg
• Bias (genus), the genus of the black-and-white shrike-flycatcher
• Bias (textile) of a woven fabric, the 45-degree diagonal line along which it is most stretchable
• Bias frame, an image obtained from an opto-electronic image sensor, with no actual exposure time
• Bias ratio (finance), an indicator used in finance to analyze the returns of investment portfolios, and in performing due diligence
• Bremer Institut für angewandte Strahltechnik (BIAS), a research institute dedicated to applied laser optics
• Belgian International Air Services (BIAS), a former airline from Belgium (1959–80)
• Birla Institute of Applied Sciences (BIAS), a higher education institute located in Bhimtal, Uttaranchal, India

See also

• Handedness
• Bias-ply
• All articles with titles beginning with "Bias"
• All articles with titles containing "Bias"