shuffle bias

noun. The phenomenon whereby a media player will repeatedly and disproportionately play related songs during a listening session despite being set to select songs at random from a full library.

My iPod exhibited shuffle bias when it played mostly Bouncing Souls songs even though I had set it in full shuffle mode.

by shmui April 5, 2010

First Choice Bias

When someone is listing options and you automatically choose the first choice. This usually leads to the person doubting you or you doubting yourself, eventually causing you to switch your answer.

Mike: Yo, Shaniqua.
Shaniqua: Hey, you wanna see a movie tonight?
Mike: Sure... what movie?
Shaniqua: How about Finding Nemo, Busty Cops 4, or He's Just Not That Into You?
Mike: I like Finding Nemo...
Shaniqua: GODDAMMIT MIKE CUT THE BULLSHIT WITH YOUR FIRST CHOICE BIAS!!

Joe: Hey, man
Paublo: Hey, Joe.
Joe: You wanna put dog shit on someone's doorstep?
Paublo: Sure. You wanna hit the Jefferson's, Al Murra's, Nagaski's, or the Smith's?
Joe: The Jefferson's I guess.
Paublo: Oh.. okay.
Joe: What? Ooh... you think it's my first choice bias choosing that.
Paublo: Huh? Oh no it's just...
Joe: that's cool dude.

by Ass Kicka November 14, 2010

Biased crowd

A phrase used exclusively on r/DotA2 and Twitch by DOTA 2 community to describe the tournament atmosphere when home crowd cheers for home team.

*Home team playing in USA and makes a play*

Crowd: LET'S GO LIQUID! USA! USA! USA!
r/DotA2: That's my boy!

*Home team playing in China and make a play*

Crowd: LGD! LGD! LGD! *Hold Chinese Flags*
r/DotA2: Holy sh!t! Look at how biased the crowd is. F*ck this nationalism.
Twitch: Biased crowd LUL

by itsdefinitelynotmyrealname November 3, 2019

biased

What every definition on this site is.

Everything I look up on here is so biased, it's not encyclopedic at all...

Is this really a dictionary? Everything is biased against itself.

by IYM October 20, 2021

biascufa

Acronym for Bitch Ass Cunt Face

Yo Daisy check this biascufa out trying to take our parking spot, what an asshole!

by Pia Bennett January 4, 2020

Letter Bias

Higher Education's practice of hiring Ph.D.s with little or no practical, real world experience, to educate over more qualified Masters and sometimes Undergraduate candidates. It can extend to less than doctorate degree holders having a "terminal" degree, such as a M.F.A., M.A. or M.B.A., over a M.S. degree holder. Even though a M.S. is a preparatory degree for a Ph.D. and contains a research component, many full time temporary and adjunct faculty members are consistently overlooked for promotion due to an "old boys club" type hiring philosophy from search committees, deans and provosts. Terminal degree holders are not immune to this type of discriminatory hiring practice either.

"I know we have a robust staff of full time temps. I know they are a safe bet for success and have been there for us, but we need a Ph.D. for accreditation," is an example of Letter Bias. Also, "they continue to teach 5 classes a semester, if we hire them tenure track we will have to work them less and pay them more, let's just get a Ph.D. it will look better anyway," is an example of Letter Bias.

by Bobby F. Dowd May 3, 2012

follower bias

When someone thinks a tweet/instagram post/etc is better than it really is simply because the poster has +10x more followers than they do.

That Rob Delaney tweet wasn't even funny, but he still got 2000 RTs. Total follower bias.

by tonsmorecowbell May 13, 2014