The phrase "attributable to bias" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the reasons or causes behind a particular opinion, decision, or outcome that may be influenced by personal or systemic bias.
Example: "The discrepancies in the survey results are largely attributable to bias in the sample selection process."
Alternatives: "due to bias" or "caused by bias".
This has been suggested for decades, but was starkly depicted in an April study about how disparities in pain management may be attributable to bias from medical providers who believe things such as that black people age more slowly than white people, and that black people's blood coagulates more quickly than white peoples.
Could these associations be attributable to bias?
We do not know whether this is a true phenomenon or attributable to bias, misclassification, or small sample size.
Although this difference may be attributable to bias, it appears that patient perception of care is negatively impacted by isolation.
Evidence is presented that both results may be attributable to bias in the selection of cases and controls.
Part of the observed association between statin use and risk of diabetes in both randomized trials and observational studies might be attributable to bias from differential survival.
Nobody believes that cellphones protect you from cancer, so the finding is considered an anomaly, attributable to biases and errors in the data.
Finally, as our analysis was based on observational data our findings might be attributable to biases introduced by unmeasured factors.
Such discrepancies may be attributable to biases in how learning gains are calculated; indeed, normalized learning gains are particularly susceptible to bias, because there is a strong relationship between pretest scores and normalized learning gains (Coletta and Phillips, 2005; Brogt et al., 2007).
Based on our finding, we further attempted to adjust our results for the observed signs of publication bias, discovering that approximately half the observed statin effect could be attributable to publication bias.
Lawton has also previously noted Indigenous patients are far less likely to be placed on a waiting list for a kidney transplant, which he said was attributable to "systemic bias" among specialists who reject Indigenous people as candidates based on assumptions of "non-compliance".
