| 词汇 | bias |
| 释义 | bias noun uk /ˈbaɪ.əs/ us /ˈbaɪ.əs/ biasnoun (PREFERENCE)C2[ Cusually singular, U ] the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment: 偏见;偏心;偏袒 The senator has accused the media of bias.参议员指责新闻媒体有偏见。 Reporters must be impartial and not show political bias.新闻记者必须公正，不应有政治偏见。 bias againstThere was clear evidence of a strong bias against her.有明显证据表明，她受到了严重的不公平待遇。 bias towardsThere has always been a slight bias towards employing liberal arts graduates in the company. unconscious biasUnconscious bias (= that the person with the bias is not aware of) can influence decisions in recruitment, promotion, and performance management.无意识的偏见会影响招聘、晋升和绩效管理方面的决定。 [ Cusually singular ] the fact of preferring a particular subject or thing: 倾向;趋势;偏好 She showed a scientific bias at an early age.她在少年时就显示出对科学的偏爱。 [ Cusually singular, U ] the fact of a collection of data containing more information that supports a particular opinion than you would expect to find if the collection had been made by chance: Understanding the bias introduced by human annotation of data is a crucial problem in AI research. selection biasA selection bias in the personality study might have meant that only confident, extroverted people volunteered to take part. publication biasHe describes how publication bias can mean that negative results aren't reported. survivorship biasThe methodological failings of the report included survivorship bias: the tendency for failed companies to be excluded from performance studies. The radio station was said to have a strong left-wing bias. Have you noticed any bias in the reporting of the Middle East situation in the media? There was a clear racial bias in the selection of candidates. The teacher seems to have a bias towards the girls in her class. This is a clear example of the bias found in historical accounts of the war. Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly ableism ableist agism agist Anglocentric discriminative discriminatorily discriminatory drumhead elitism one-sided one-sidedly one-sidedness one-way othering two-tier unbalance unequal unequally uneven You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Liking more Balance and imbalance biasnoun (IN BOWLS)[ C ] in bowls(= a game in which the players roll a large black or brown ball as close as possible to a smaller white ball), the shape given to one side of the ball that makes it not round: A bowl will turn towards the side with the bias when rolled. Bowls, bowling & croquet alley bisque bocce boule bowling alley bowling ball bowling green bowling lane counter croquet duckpin duckpin bowling jack lawn bowling mallet pin pinsetter skip strike tenpin biasnoun (CLOTHING)[ U ] fabrics & fashion specialized a direction at an angle across the threads of woven material斜纹 cut on the bias (alsobias-cut) If a piece of clothing is cut on the bias, the cloth has been cut in a diagonal direction: I like to wear skirts cut on the bias. The dresses in his new winter collection are all cut on the bias. Anything cut on the bias tends to make my hips look big. Leila's dress was cut on the bias so that it floated outwards from her whenever she moved. She wore a dress that was cut on the bias and studded with rhinestones. The collection includes bias-cut dresses and skirts with embroidered hems. The shoes would look fabulous with a simple, bias-cut silk dress. Textiles: general words baize Bargello brocade cloth cutpiece denier doff multi-stranded multifilament nap padding pile pill reweave strand suiting swatch the weft webbed yarn You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Style & appearance of clothes bias verb[ T ] uk /ˈbaɪ.əs/ us /ˈbaɪ.əs/-s- or UK also-ss- to cause someone or something to have a bias: 使…怀有偏见 bias someone against someoneThe judge ruled that the information should be withheld on the grounds that it would bias the jury against the accused.法官因该材料会导致陪审团产生不利于被告的偏见而责令将其收回。 Liking more druthers each each to his/their ownphrase fave favour favoured favourite give give me ... any day/every time!idiom lief over-favour prefer preferable preferably preference preferred rather soon top ten would (just) as soonidiom bias | American Dictionarybias noun[ C/U ] us/ˈbɑɪ·əs/ an unfair personal opinion that influences your judgment: [ U ]They vowed to fight racial bias in the school. [ Cusually sing ]Does news coverage reflect a reporter’s bias? biasverb[ T ]us/ˈbɑɪ·əs/-s- | -ss- The judge withheld the information on the grounds that it would bias the jury. bias | Business Englishbias noun uk /ˈbaɪəs/us [ C,usually singular or U ] the fact of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment in an unfair way: In her view, none of the interview panel had shown any bias. gender/racial biasa federal law prohibiting gender and racial bias in employment bias against sb/sthThe email suggested a clear bias against American products. bias in favour of sb/sthThe company showed a marked bias in favour of employing men. a clear/definite/strong bias [ C,usually singular ] the fact of preferring someone or something: bias towards sb/sthIn general, investment trusts have more of a bias towards emerging markets, including the Far East. [ C or U ] the fact that information is not correct because of the method used in collecting or presenting it: In the market research there was a bias in the sample of people who were selected to give their opinions. There is a need to build in safeguards against statistical bias. [ C or U ] FINANCE the fact of prices, etc. increasing or decreasing: Interest rates are set to have an upward bias in the next 12 months. a negative/downward bias a positive/upward bias Examples of biasbias Second, the high rate of follow-up participation reduces the risk of bias due to selective attrition. The degree to which the bias or variance is reduced will in turn affect the rate by which the model's error will decrease. Both schools used a "mixed" method of teaching reading with a whole language bias. Further, even when data are collected prospectively, the report of symptoms is subject to recall bias for individuals at the time of a positive test. This leads to a bias toward consumption, and thereby higher welfare. The following is the author's position on the subject, admittedly biased by a structural engineering background. In our context, their suggestions imply that a likelihood approach with random variety effects reduces bias in the estimation of (fixed) year effects. This did, however, bias the participants in an unprecedented, at times embarrassing, way. This excitatory bias is an order parameter for the induction of state transitions in cortical itinerancy. However, differences in these biases from one epidemic season to another are unlikely. The fluid particles avoid moving near the fixed wall y = 0, so that as they emerge from the origin they are biased towards the vertical. The standard methods are therefore biased, but the magnitude of this bias is unclear. A general gender bias in aspergillosis cases was evident, with rates in males outnumbering those in females for most age groups. The purpose was otherwise, thus no deliberate selection bias is entailed. Our sample was, therefore, more representative of patients placed on an order and less subject to referral or selection bias. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withbiasbiasThese are words often used in combination with bias. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. accusation of bias I cannot accept the accusation of bias in any circumstances. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 ascertainment bias The relatively low number of reports of patients with deletions may therefore be a result of ascertainment bias. attentional bias The results of the study are interpreted as a consolidation and extension of previous research on attentional bias and emotional disorder in younger participants. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with bias |
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