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

Russian Bias

A timed moment where Stalin assists specifically anyone who is the Soviet Union, From the old and special Po-2 bomber bi-plane to the famous, powerful and fast MiG-15/17/19 fighter jet, from the T-26 manueverable and small light tank to the worldwide used T-55A MBT (correct me)

Stalin will assist with the amount of penetration shells can provide, or help a rolling Tu-4 near its doom, stop spinning and climb back to safety

The Yak-9T is made with a special, Russian Bias 37mm NS-37 aka "Fridge Launching" cannon

The MiG-17 can reverse repair at certain points of the aircraft by damage the same amount at the same place (same to other side) due to Russian Bias

The Tu-4 is known as the Russian Death Star for its B-29 copy replacing 12.7mm mg turrets with 23mm autocannons, making the Tu-4 nearly the pure Russian Bias

Po-2 is an extremely slow, but damn mavueverable, confusing the hell of German pilots and comes with special stalinium airframe, make it survive more likely against 30mm MK 108s and air-to-air collisions, and also an RP grinding machine.

by DeadassDefs October 2, 2017

normalcy bias

The state of being in denial about super bad shit that is happening. Being geared toward everything being awesome today and tomorrow, just like it was yesterday (except that some douche bag did some holocaustic shit).

Dude A: Starting tomorrow, we can all get incarcerated forever without any warrants or trials 'cuz the politicians just voted for that, and Obama said so!

Dude B: No way, dude!! I'm going to ride my skateboard, because I live in a bubble and want it to stay that way. Normalcy bias sure beats how depressing the truth is!

by Sailor Poison December 17, 2011

boasy

To be extremely boastful or over the top with something

Yo have u seen the new boy Tanj, he’s so boasy about everything

by Hacker256 September 4, 2018

biased

1. A preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment.
2. An unfair act or policy stemming from prejudice.

my teacher failed my paper cuz shes biased against my opinions on affirmative action

by t-radical squared May 15, 2005

bias wrecker

in a k-pop group there is you favourite, your bias and than there is another member who makes you rethink who your bias is and puts them on equal platforms.

min suga is my bias but damn nam joon is such a bias wrecker for me like rap monster who no it's only dance monster

by aussiecuntsismenamemate September 23, 2019