词汇 | biased |
释义 | biased adjective uk /ˈbaɪ.əst/ us /ˈbaɪ.əst/ C1 showing an unreasonable like or dislike for someone or something based on personal opinions: The newspapers gave a very biased report of the meeting.报纸对会议的报道明显偏袒一方。 I think she's beautiful but then I'm biased since she's my daughter.我认为她很漂亮,不过毕竟她是我女儿,我对她有点儿偏袒。 Synonyms one-sided slanted Opposite unbiased unfair unfairThey objected to the state's unfair treatment of dissenters. unjustThey protested unjust laws. biasedThe newspaper gave a very biased report of the meeting. slantedThe report was slanted in favour of the developers. discriminatoryThe company has a zero-tolerance policy toward discriminatory practices. prejudicedIt is well known that the company is prejudiced against older workers and refuses to hire anyone over the age of 50. A biased collection of data contains more information that supports a particular opinion than you would expect to find if the collection had been made by chance: The unexpected results may be partially due to the biased sample used in the study. A lot of people think that most newspapers are biased towards one particular political party.许多人认为大多数报纸都偏袒某一政党。 Liverpool only lost the game because the referee was biased. The president criticized the Western press for their biased views. It's obvious that most of the committee are biased in favour of the Labour Party. His account of the situation was very biased and you should check your facts before making a judgment. 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: Balance and imbalance biased | American Dictionarybiased adjective us/ˈbɑɪ·əst/ showing an unreasonable preference or dislike based on personal opinion: The newspapers gave a biased report of the meeting. biased | Business Englishbiased adjective (alsobiassed)uk /ˈbaɪəst/us preferring or disliking someone or something more than someone or something else, in a way that means that they are treated unfairly: biased against sb/sthHe believes the American justice system is biased against blacks. biased in favour of sb/sthThey claimed that the settlement was biased in favour of corporate clients. giving results that are not accurate because information has not been collected correctly: A biased sample of interviewees has a set of characteristics that are different from those of the population as a whole. Compare unbiased Examples of biasedbiased The following is the author's position on the subject, admittedly biased by a structural engineering background. It should be noted, however, that a biased picture may have been produced by the selection of household tasks included in the survey. 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. To assess the calibration it was important to use statistical models that were not biased by the high frequency of zero counts in the data. Biased attention to signals of threat or danger are thought to create cognitive distortions through a process of overactivation. The second reason is again the limited number of polymorphic loci employed in the analyses, possibly leading to biased estimates. Standard deviations on the other hand will be positively biased. However, the subjects studied lived in a residential home and many were ex-smokers, so underlying age-related pathology may have biased the findings. Our simulations showed that selection against large size (associated with biased mutation) similarly decreased within-population variability in both panmictic and clonal populations. Since, in addition, directly assessed numbers tend to be biased, various indirect elicitation methods have been developed. The defence attacks the second witness claim by pointing out the corroborative evidence that the witness is biased (17). The species responding to baits represent a relatively small sample of the meliponine guild, and may be biased to include foraging generalists, rather than specialists. This selection must be biased by both discrete immediate goals such as quenching thirst, and by general requirements such as self-preservation. In lemons, the relative mean proportions were not as stable through time even though the overall trend was also male biased. 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. |
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