OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10030

bias

/ˈbaɪəs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
inclinación • parcialidad • predilección • predisposición • preferencia • prejuicio • sesgo • tendencia
Inclination towards something.
Morality […] give[s] a bias to all their [men's] actions.
nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biasses to draw too much
sesgo
The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
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