"Do I think there is general bias towards the left?
To be sure, as people always say, Wall Street's general bias is to the upside.
"There's been a general bias in the community against this particle existing," Dr. Hicks said.
The general bias in anthropological theory draws heavily from Marxism, Dr. Chagnon writes.
The preliminary injunction does not necessarily indicate that the plaintiffs will prevail, since there is a general bias in the courts toward granting injunctions in intellectual property cases.
Of the three categories, coverage of war has attracted criticism for its lies, jingoism and general bias.
If what people feel they need depends on what others spend, the same cognitive illusion that affects wealthy Americans' attitudes toward taxes creates a more general bias against government.
"There are a variety of ways to look at this issue, but our general bias is that the lower the dependence on stock-based compensation, the higher the quality of the P&L," he wrote in a report in April, using shorthand for the income statement.
study (pdf), which looks in detail at the interaction between tax policy and debt (not just in the U.S., but across the globe), and argues, as I do, that the general bias in favor of debt likely "encouraged excessive leveraging and other financial market problems evident in the crisis".
They were also made in the wrong direction more frequently, suggesting a general bias towards optimism.
Loewenstein et al. (2003) coined the term "projection bias" to describe the general bias that has been documented in relation to the prediction of future tastes.
