In electronics: A fixed DC voltage or current applied in a circuit with AC signals.Examples include cultural bias and infrastructure bias. In the social and physical sciences: Any of a host of phenomena involving excessive influence of past/irrelevant conditions on present decisions.(Bias sounds cooler than that high-school-math word, right?) In neural network algorithms: Essentially, an intercept term. ![]() The list of cataloged cognitive biases is eye-popping. Translation to layman’s terms? Surprise, your brain evolved some ways of reacting to stuff and psychologists initially found those reactions surprising. Every word in that pithy definition except “from” is loaded with field-specific nuance. In cognitive psychology: Systematic deviation from rationality.This kind of bias means you can’t trust your statistical results. In data collection (and also statistics): When you fumble your data collection so your sample isn’t representative of your population of interest.
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