What's the difference between biased and unfair?

Biased


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Bias

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.

Unfair


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deprive of fairness or beauty.
  • (a.) Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (2) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
  • (3) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
  • (4) The two main taxi associations said 100% of their members had parked their cars for the day in an effort to raise awareness over what they called unfair competition.
  • (5) The walk-out is by far the most serious confrontation with the government since the elevation of the conservative-led, three-party coalition to power in June – and, says unionists, underlines the scale of public anger over cuts that are widely seen to be unfair.
  • (6) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
  • (7) Miliband said: "Unfair pricing which hits the most vulnerable hardest is completely unacceptable.
  • (8) Trump variously complained that the Khans had been unfair to him, that Khizr Khan had no right to speak, and that Ghazala Khan was forbidden from speaking.
  • (9) Chris Leslie, the shadow Treasury minister, said the IFS analysis highlighted the "massive complexity of this unfair policy".
  • (10) In 2009, the Office of Fair Trading successfully sued Foxtons for extracting “unfair” charges from landlords.
  • (11) We think the sector rules were operating unfairly in the provider's favour, with consumers having little choice but to accept price increases or pay to exit their contract.
  • (12) It confirms that Fifa, through its internal bodies, is conducting a one-sided, unfair and biased investigation against Michel Platini, repeatedly violating his right to defend himself.” The Fifa appeals committee, chaired by the Bermudan Larry Mussenden, said the appeals had been rejected in full and the decision of the adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee, chaired by the German judge Hans Joachim-Eckert, confirmed in its entirety.
  • (13) "The suggestion that I deliberately misled the committee and refused to apologise are both untrue and unfair," she wrote in a letter to Keith Vaz, the committee's chairman.
  • (14) It was unfair because the court would decide a case by reference to evidence produced by the government, which was not seen by the other party to the case, giving the latter no real opportunity to answer it, he told the BBC.
  • (15) Trump’s transition team reportedly told French diplomats they disapproved of the conference going ahead, seeing it as an attempt to put unfair pressure on Israel and give an unjustified reward to the Palestinians.
  • (16) The problem is the practical one of doing something about it without being unfair to the cohorts of pupils who start sitting exams when the previous trend of ever-improving grades is put into reverse.
  • (17) There’s been a sharp rise in the number of death sentences and executions since Sisi came to power, some of which have taken place after grossly unfair trials.
  • (18) Griffin vowed to lodge a complaint at the "unfair" way the Question Time programme was produced, despite the BNP's claims that his appearance sparked the "biggest single recruitment night in the party's history".
  • (19) Murdoch had one on his, of course, but because he was facing hostile interrogation he looked (unfairly) as if he were wearing it in self-protection as a symbol of his own virtue.
  • (20) Junior doctors contract row: an explainer Read more “This is not a decision that we have taken lightly, but the government’s refusal to work with us through genuine negotiations and their threat to impose new contracts that we believe are unsafe for patients and unfair for doctors, leaves us with few options”, said Dr Johann Malawana, chair of the JDC.