form of bias

collocation in English

meaningsofformandbias

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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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bias
noun
uk
/ˈbaɪ.əs/us
/ˈbaɪ.əs/
the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence ...
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(Definition offormandbiasfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The difference may be seen as aformofbiasagainst the public sector investments that are required to balance out more indirect costs than private investments have to do.
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That preoccupation and caricature is aformofbias.
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Let us have more broadcasts to foreign countries in their respective languages, but, above all, let them be free from anyformofbiaswhatever.
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Moreover, if one thinks about it, it is a healthyformofbias.
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There is nothing that one can do about that secondformofbias.
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Thisformofbiaswarrants the decision-maker being automatically disqualified from exercising its powers.
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Language may also introduce a more subtleformofbias.
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If the propaganda model is right and the filters do influence media content, a particularformofbiaswould be expected one that systematically favors corporate interests.
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In other words selective perception is aformofbiasbecause we interpret information in a way that is congruent with our existing values and beliefs.
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Other forms of bias recieved less prominence in the voluminous literature on neoclassical growth models.
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The cause of that differential is not known; it is apparently not due to any simpleformofbiasin the content or administration of the tests themselves.
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Different forms of bias can affect the results of sequential case-control studies in a foodborne outbreak investigation.
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The other forms of bias that often occur in contingent valuation analysis are 'hypothetical' bias and 'strategic' bias.
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These are extremely objective people who are quite capable of ridding their minds of all forms of bias.
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A number of factors, including various forms of bias, confounding and chance can potentially influence the findings of such studies, leading to estimates of risk being falsely high or low.
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There are three forms of bias, namely, actual, imputed and apparent bias.
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A growing body of research has demonstrated that practice pairing minority racial out-groups with counter-stereotypic examples can reduce implicit forms of bias.
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Selective reporting (spiking, double standards) are very commonly alleged against newspapers, and by their nature are forms of bias not easy to establish, or guard against.
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