Defense attorneys routinely mount biased arguments on behalf of their clients; indeed, it is their job to make the strongest one-sided case they can.
But the bias argument misses the point.
Mark McKinnon, the director of advertising for Bush's 2000 Presidential campaign and now for his reëlection, says, "I've never subscribed to the bias argument about the press.
Consistent with Banerjee et al. (2011) home-bias argument, Table 4 shows that the estimated coefficients of HBare negative (−3.152 and −3.306).
As you can see, although the bias argument might seem appealing at first blush to some, it is quite absurd when you break it down.
This is nothing more than a rehash of the old quota or reverse bias argument that's been used for years by conservatives to thwart affirmative action.
"The Constitution prohibits racially biased prosecutorial arguments," Sotomayor said, later adding that the prosecutor's comments "tapped a deep and sorry vein of racial prejudice that has run through the history of criminal justice in our nation".
If the work the social workers had done was of poor quality and their arguments biased, as the judge concluded in his summing up of the case, that is reprehensible.
3. The belief bias: When one's evaluation of the logical strength of an argument is biased by their belief in the truth or falsity of the conclusion.
Our finding of an absence of any protective effect shows that results from the observational studies might be biased and that the arguments for setting up such a trial are weakened.
(Needless to say, I'm biased in favor of this argument, since I wrote a book called "The Wisdom of Crowds," which argues in part that adding more people and more diversity of opinion to a group (like a market) is likely to make it smarter, not dumber).
