biased
part of speech
adjective (biased, more biased, most biased); verb past form of bias (bias, biases, biased, biasing)
meaning for a pupil
1) Unfairly favouring one person, side or idea over another, often without good reasons. tree →
2) (maths and science) Not fair or not random, like a biased coin or dice that lands one way more often. tree →
3) (past form of bias) Made someone or something unfair. tree →
sense in the lessons
In lessons on news and history pupils learn to spot biased reports that show only one side. In maths, a biased dice changes probabilities, and in science a biased test is not fair. In everyday life a biased referee favours one team. Phrases: "biased against", "biased towards", "biased opinion", "a biased coin".
examples
- The referee was biased towards the home team. tree →
- This article is biased because it only gives one side. tree →
- A biased dice landed on six far too often. tree →
- Try not to be biased when you judge the drawings. tree →
- The survey was biased because they only asked their friends. tree →
- Everyone can be a little biased without noticing. tree →
- Our science test was unfair and biased, so we did it again. tree →
note
Spelled with one s (biased) in most dictionaries; "biassed" is a rare British spelling. In maths, for a fair coin each side has probability 1/2; for a biased coin the probabilities are different, so you need to test it many times to find them. The noun is "bias".
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «biased» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.