Consider the following hypothetical example.

Proportional Bias

Custom Bias

Fuzzy Bias

Cut the cloth on the bias.

Every rumour contains a grain of truth.

Taking into account a potential measurement bias

This is not a partisan view.

And there's another cognitive bias I'll call confirmation bias, where we tend to accept data that confirms our beliefs and reject data that contradicts our beliefs.

Unfortunately, this leaves plenty of room for distortion and bias.

Because this isn't just the hypothetical retail value of some pirated movies that we're talking about, but this is actual economic losses.

The answer is that independence acts as a safeguard against any inflationary bias .

Rendering intent determines the bias in the color conversion.

Indeed, there was a real and massive social mobilization, but with a conservative bias.

But there is a more fundamental cause China s bias toward industrialization.

Not even physicians are immune to these influences indeed, in some cases, they actually create the bias.

Moreover, the bias toward manufacturing and export industries leads to a severe misallocation of capital.

And you'll notice that there's a very heavy bias towards North America and Western Europe.

Consider the case of a hypothetical Latin American retail company that borrowed abroad in dollars to build a shopping mall at home.

But it does not eliminate the short term bias embedded in the EU s fiscal rules.

Although the size of the measurement bias in the euro area HICP is uncertain , available studies indicate that it is likely to be limited .

They tend to exaggerate the support for the model and discount new evidence that contradicts it a phenomenon known as confirmation bias.

Contrary to what many think, there is no fundamental bias against this medicine in mainstream economics today.

The sudden release of large amounts of natural gas from methane clathrate deposits in runaway climate change could be a cause of past, future, and present climate changes.

The cow head protest, which was led by UMNO members, quickly fuelled racially charged manipulation of public sentiment.

In particular , frequent re basing of the national indices is important to ensure the accuracy and comparability of the HICP and to reduce substitution bias .

PressRuissa is a parody account (now suspended) spoofing a pro Russian media, a mix of satire and commentary on disinformation and bias.

People outside the country weren't considered sufficiently informed, their judgement wasn't worth the same, and they were accused of ignorance and bias.

This imagined state of affairs might be called the financial singularity, analogous to the hypothetical future technological singularity, when computers replace human intelligence.

He added that , although the size of the measurement bias in the euro area was still uncertain , available studies indicated that it was likely to be limited .

Even if the global economy holds at a 4.3 cruise speed a big if, in my view it will remain below its trend line potential for over eight years in a row, through 2015.

Even if the global economy holds at a 4.3 cruise speed a big if, in my view it will remain below its trend line potential for over eight years in a row, through 2015.

More people think their lives are improving, while others are doing worse, probably because of journalists persistent bias in favor of bad news.

But it also requires a global investment community public, private, and mixed that can move beyond short term thinking, ideological bias, ignorance, and cynicism.

This is low speed, low wind speed, and the maneuverability is very increased, and here I'm going to do a small jibe, and look at the position of the sail.

In fact, by establishing urbanization as an explicit objective something that Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan never did China has embedded a structural economic bias toward construction.

Governments, according to the conventional wisdom, should aim for stable prices, with a slight bias toward inflation to stimulate the animal spirits of businessmen and shoppers.

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As yet there is no conclusive evidence as to the magnitude of a potential bias in the HICP . Eurostat , the European Commission agency responsible for this area of statistics at the EU level , has attempted to avoid a measurement bias in the HICP by setting appropriate statistical standards for the national statistical institutes ( e.g. for revisions of expenditure weights in the index at appropriate time intervals and for the inclusion of new goods ) .

The mainstream media s tendency to avoid checking out or reporting what is actually newsworthy in Internet conspiracy theories partly reflects class bias.

( ii ) Other netting agreements In application of method 1 for step ( a ) the current replacement cost for the contracts included in a netting agreement may be obtained by taking account of the actual hypothetical net replacement cost which result from the agreement .

One could, of course, choose to see FIFA as a dysfunctional organization, rather than a criminal enterprise. But even in this more charitable scenario, much of the malfeasance is a direct result of the federation s total lack of transparency.

The precise magnitude of this bias for the euro area is difficult to estimate and probably rather small , given the continuous improvements made to the index by Eurostat . 8

Even within Wikipedias, where we're creating their own content online, there's a heavy bias towards the place where a lot of the Wikipedia authors are based, rather than to the rest of the world.

Today we have reached the delicate stage where the Iraqi regime is maintaining its early attitude of defiance and still shows no sign of wanting to go back on its annexation of Kuwait, despite the initiatives taken by the Arab states.