grid bias

Electrical voltage placed on control grid of a vacuum tube. Determines the level at which electrical action takes place in the tube for purposes of amplification, rectification, relaying, switching or other functions. Sometimes used to describe levels of anger or frustration.

Calm down; don't let your grid bias get out of control.

by Old hiker July 12, 2017

Community bias

A community bias is a cognitive tendency to think in a certain way that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgment by giving disproportionate weight and importance to your own community and related extremely specific issues not looking at the big picture, other communities, people or other issues that are not related to your own community.

Communities can be territorial or social or related to an extremely specific issue: i.e. parochial communities, same industry workers communities, trade unions communities, generational communities (young and old people), et cetera

A community bias is a powerful form of group-think.

"It's incredible! The steel industry workers' trade union obtained significant wage increases in recent years, while we have not achieved anything, no wage increases, no more benefits!"

"Give up this useless community bias! Our bank salary is three times that of the workers of steel industry!"

by MdB29071988 November 18, 2016

Bias Conflict

Short for Inextricable Cognitive Bias Conflict. An extremely common, automatic conflict which erupts between individuals because every individual can only perceive and interpret events anchored in their biases which generate their cognitive biases.

Each one of two men rents a room in a house in Lakeland, Florida. Along with the landlady, the three live in a Bias Conflict because until each one comes to comprehend Cognitive Biases, each one will continue perceiving and interpreting everything based on their inherent biases.

by but for October 14, 2018

gender-bias

Gender-bias (also synonymous with gender-specific) is used to describe what is really happening when someone states their sexual preference. If straight, a male is biased towards women, and a straight woman is biased towards men. Gay men towards men, etc. Someone who is not gender biased might be bisexual (prefer both sexes), or might be epicene (does not judge based on sex). Someone might have no gender biase in their sexual preference, but might instead decide to impose a gender restriction to their life-style for one reason or another.

'Do you prefer men or women?'
'I don't have a preference, I am not gender-biased in the slightest.'

by ismirth July 2, 2007

Popularity bias

Something in Blocksworld thanks to 5 year olds

Idiots: let's end popularity bias by hate!
Pro militarys declare war on the idiots
idiots: FUUUUUUU

by No Username Found October 30, 2016

liberal bias

A myth invented in conservative think-tanks as part of an all-encompassing effort to co-opt and/or corrupt all of the best ideas of a socially responsible, free country: In this case specifically, the existence of a free and curious media that functions independently from the government (but see also: affirmative action, feminism, social security, constitutional protection, judicial restraint, environmentalism, and social liberalism in general).

"Thank God we have Bill O'Reilly and Fox News to tell us the news as President Bush would have us know it -- before it gets filtered through the liberal bias for that pesky 'truth' the mainstream media is always harping on.

by D. Kling September 5, 2008

racial bias

when you are biased against someone due to their race.

For example, when a White person, who by the way doesn't have to necessarily be a sworn racist, has a racial bias against a Black person when all other things are equal. You may hear things like, "Although you have completed your case plan or although you have graduated from college...there are still concerns..."

by Curvygirl November 19, 2013