bias

Definition 1

General: Inclination or preference that influences (but ought not to) one's judgment from being balanced or even-handed. Prejudice is bias in pejorative sense.

Definition 2

Statistics: Systemic inaccuracy in data due to the characteristics of the process employed in creation, collection, manipulation, and presentation of data, or due to faulty sample design of the estimating technique.


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