'profound bias' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a strongly held prejudiced point of view which affects one's judgement in a particular situation. For example, "The journalist's profound bias against politicians led to her writing an unfairly negative article."
Mathematics conference organizers may claim they choose speakers purely by merit, but a statistical analysis of the proportions of male and female speakers suggests profound bias against women, according to mathematician Greg Martin.
► "Mathematics conference organizers may claim they choose speakers purely by merit," according to a Sifter published last Friday, but a new statistical analysis by mathematician Greg Martin of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, "suggests profound bias against women".
Unilateral infusions of muscimol into the FOF resulted in a profound bias towards ipsilateral responses in the Poisson Clicks task.
Recent experimental work on chordates has highlighted a profound bias caused by decay, resulting in the erroneous interpretation of badly decayed specimens as primitive members of a clade (stemward slippage).
Sequence generated by Ion Torrent, MiSeq and Pacific Biosciences technologies displays near perfect coverage behaviour on GC-rich, neutral and moderately AT-rich genomes, but a profound bias was observed upon sequencing the extremely AT-rich genome of Plasmodium falciparum on the PGM, resulting in no coverage for approximately 30% of the genome.
One need only imagine how the New York Times would have reacted if a Republican candidate had broken such a pledge, and then gone on to amass a war chest of $639m to his opponent's $360m, to see how profound the bias has been.But all this brought out some deep-rooted weaknesses in Mr McCain's character, too.
Consistent with this, a profound strand bias for the silencing of the+strand of both ZAM and Idefix was observed.
There is profound selection bias here.
Further, there is little data to explain why ADHD exhibits such profound sex bias.
To our knowledge this is first study to demonstrate glioma-associated, class II-restricted epitopes and to reveal a profound Th2 bias among glioma-specific T helper cells.
The significant non-compliance seen in maternity studies cannot be assumed to be random and so introduces profound selection bias where patients chose certain treatments or protocols [ 12].
