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Bias Unfair Forms Baɪəs N.偏见 Umpire Favor Side

Front bias
Pron ['baɪəs]
Back 【bias】
n.偏见
The umpire should have no bias in favor of either side.
栽判员对两方应不偏不倚。
Vocab
biasa partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

Use the noun bias to mean a preference for one thing over another, especially an unfair one.

Some biases are completely innocent: "I have a bias toward French wines." But most often, bias is used to describe unfair prejudices: "The authorities investigated a case involving bias against Latinos." It is also a verb meaning "to show prejudice for or against," as in "They claimed the tests were biased against women." (In British English, it takes an extra S in the forms biassed and biassing.) The word goes back at least to Old Provençal, a former language of southern France, in association with the sport of lawn bowling, where it referred to the tendency of a ball to roll in one direction or the other.

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