bias

In a sentence

Six example sentences with bias, each labelled with its topic.

• Interviewers show a clear bias toward candidates who share their hometown, rating identical answers higher without noticing it.

  Psychology

• A hiring model trained on twenty years of resumes inherited every bias buried in those older decisions.

  Technology

• Chronicles written by the victors carry an obvious bias, praising one dynasty while reducing its rivals to footnotes.

  History

• Jurors are questioned before trial to uncover any bias, and a cousin of the defendant is excused on the spot.

  Law

• Fans swear the referees carry a bias toward the home team, and the foul count in close games rarely proves them wrong.

  Basketball

• Readers accused the critic of bias, since every film from that studio received exactly one star regardless of its merits.

  Movies

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains bias. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• status
• analysis
• published
• stable
• modify
• scope
• positive
• demonstrated
• cultural
• analyse
• ratio
• tense