(n.) A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.
(n.) A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
(n.) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
(n.) A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
(a.) Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
(a.) Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
(adv.) In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
(v. t.) To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a decrease significantly biased survival (p = 0.001).
(2) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(3) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
(4) In addition, despite the fact that the differences constitutes an information bias, the bias occurs in the same direction and magnitude in all the various subgroups and thus is nondifferential.
(5) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(6) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
(7) Results were inconsistent with both the feature detector fatigue and response bias hypothesis.
(8) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
(9) The greater use of health services for female children probably accounts for the female-biased sex ratio among the Mukogodo.
(10) The possibility that selective bias or unmeasured environmental differences might explain the difference in BP between the two groups is discussed.
(11) In Study 4, attributional biases and deficits were found to be positively correlated with the rate of reactive aggression (but not proactive aggression) displayed in free play with peers (N = 127).
(12) Significant biases in the distribution of cases of babesiosis were found with regard to season (P < 0,05), sex (P < 0,001) and coat colour (P < 0.01).
(13) This suggests that monitoring heart rate during limited portions of the day will provide a biased estimate of overall heart rate.
(14) Analogous biases and solutions apply to other sampling problems in health services research.
(15) Only eye position proved statistically significant; straight-ahead eye position induced more bias than did fixation of the visual stimulus.
(16) A model was investigated which simulated choices one may have between disease classification tests, to determine how the required sample size and bias in the estimates of the risk ratio and risk difference varied between tests.
(17) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(18) We confirm that sera from patients on intravenous therapy with lidocaine exhibit a positive bias in results for creatinine but that lidocaine itself does not interfere.
(19) We discuss advantages and disadvantages of total randomization, of Zelen-type randomization procedures, of Efron-type procedures vs more classical blocking procedures to control the balance between groups, and of Simon-Pocock-type procedures vs more classical stratification for controlling possible biases in prognostic factors.
(20) (4) R(XY)(t,tau) is a biased estimator of the shape of h(t), generally over-estimating both its time to peak and its rise time.
Lopsided
Definition:
(a.) Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship.
(a.) Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; full of idiosyncrasies.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has prolonged the recession and promoted a lopsided and unbalanced recovery which promises another collapse in the not-distant future.
(2) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
(3) It fills me with hope of change.” But, as local historian Eusebio Leal Spengler led the Obamas through the deserted streets, the tour also hinted at the dangers of lopsided tourist development that could leave the stunningly beautiful city centre feeling like a permanent theme park if mishandled.
(4) Because if the prime minister had half an eye on the longer run, he would realise that the current imbalance of power between workers and bosses, between labour and capital is so lopsided as to threaten the very political and economic viability of this form of capitalism.
(5) For Cohn, a teddy boy at heart, neither came close to the glamour and speed fix of the rapidly receding “golden age” he wrote about with such dash: Elvis’s “great ducktail plume and lopsided grin”, Phil Spector’s “beautiful noise”, and James Brown, “the outlaw, the Stagger Lee of his time”.
(6) The costs of progress in Latin America include lopsided and strained development (45% of Chile's people live in poverty compared to 20% in 1970).
(7) In a speech to the CBI, he will say: "Everyone agrees now that in the past Britain's economy had become lopsided – too dependent on debt, consumption and financial services.
(8) Lasse Gustavson, head of WWF's delegation, said: "While we think some of the new text is a good base for the future, such as the language on oceans, we see a lopsided victory of weak words over action words ,with the weak words winning out at 514 to 10."
(9) The signatories, including Eagle-Eye Cherry, Andreas Johnson, and members of Hellacopters, Peter Bjorn and John, and the Wannadies, attribute the lopsided distribution to the major labels insisting on tough terms in order to licence Spotify in the first place – including shares in the company and huge advances – while the music publishers and STIM, who represent songwriters, initially agreed to terrible licensing terms in order for the service to even get off the ground.
(10) The combination of liberalised banking with an undemocratic, lopsided and deflationary currency union that critics (on both left and right in this case) had always argued risked breaking apart was a disaster waiting to happen.
(11) But there was widespread frustration at the weakness of the compromise document and its lopsided emphasis on the economy above than the environment.
(12) This lopsided approach means neither the chancellor, George Osborne, nor the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, knows what is really happening to overall workers' earnings.
(13) If the origins of this deal have been tortuous, the final outcome could end up looking dramatically lopsided – even by the outlandish financial standards of national newspapers.
(14) The original contract was "lopsided" and "poorly-constructed", he says.
(15) It is this culture of lopsided sacrifice that has to stop – and the Rockefellers, oddly, are showing the way.
(16) The lopsided nature of industrial action is not new to Belgium, but is seen as creating more tensions than before, because the Flemish separatists, the N-VA (New Flemish Alliance), are now the largest party in government.
(17) Surgery to remove a tumour from his jaw in the 1980s left Broecker's face slightly lopsided, adding to an impression of eccentricity.
(18) Without Bryant, the San Antonio Spurs swept the Lakers in the first round of the postseason, a series that ended in Staples Center with Dwight Howard ending his forgettable tenure in LA by semi-deliberately fouling out of the lopsided loss .
(19) Progressives share so much, but so often our human nature and lopsided structures get in the way.
(20) In games between closely matched teams, which this series truly is despite the 76ers being a eight seed, lopsided scores are often as much the result of friendly bounces and random hot shooting streaks as anything else.