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Bias A systematic distortion of thinking in judgement and decision-making – for example, beliefs and preconceptions adversely influencing actors’ interpretation of available information, as well as cognitive processes relating to the occurrence of cognitive biases such as overconfidence, confirmation bias, and so forth; any prejudicial inclination or predisposition which inhibits, deters, or prevents accurate judgement; an inclination towards a conclusion or position; any preference for one choice or response over others; a systematic error or a distortion of results in a statistical context, for example, due to faulty or inadequate selection of a sample; a lack of fairness; any systematic factor in an experimental situation which introduces or is conducive to error.
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