The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BIAS
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More clues leading to the result BIAS
- Prejudice from another time restricting author initially
- Again hiding a prejudice
- Unfairness of twice concealing answer
- Going both ways, when leaning
- Family member taken aback about a prejudice
- Prejudice putting bismuth before arsenic
- Prejudice shown when in support of substantial cut
- Scholar’s written about middle part of Pride and Prejudice
- Prejudice shown by British international — when?
- Swinging while leaning
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What does BIAS mean?
BIAS noun- Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.
- The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
- 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.
- In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
- A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
- To place bias upon; to influence.
- Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
- Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
- In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.