Bias is an inclination toward something, or a predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, or predilection. Bias may also refer to: Scientific method and statistics The bias introduced into an experiment through a confounder Algorithmic bias, machine learning algorithms that exhibit politically unacceptable behavior Cultural bias, interpreting and judging phenomena in terms particular to one's own culture Funding bias, bias relative to the commercial interests of a study's financial sponsor Infrastructure bias, the influence of existing social or scientific infrastructure on scientific observations Publication bias, bias toward publication of certain experimental results Bias (statistics), the systematic distortion of a statistic Biased sample, a sample falsely taken to be typical of a population Estimator bias, a bias from an estimator whose expectation differs from the true value of the parameter Personal equation, a concept in 19th- and early 20th-century science that each observer had an inherent bias when it came to measurements and observations Reporting bias, a bias resulting from what is and isn't reported in research, either by participants in the research or by the researcher. Cognitive science Cognitive bias, any of a wide range of effects identified in cognitive science. Confirmation bias, tendency of people to favor information that confirm their beliefs of hypothesis See List of cognitive biases for a comprehensive list Mathematics and engineering Exponent bias, the constant offset of an exponent's value Inductive bias, the set of assumptions that a machine learner uses to predict outputs of given inputs that it has not encountered. Seat bias, any bias in a method of apportionment that favors either large or small parties over the other Electricity Biasing, a voltage or current added to an electronic device to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function Grid bias of a vacuum tube, used to control the electron flow from the heated cathode to the positively charged anode Tape bias (also AC bias), a high-frequency signal (generally from 40 to 150 kHz) added to the audio signal recorded on an analog tape recorder Places Bias, Landes, on the coast in southwestern France Bias, Lot-et-Garonne, in southwestern France Bias, West Virginia, a community in the United States Bias Bay, now called Daya Bay, in Guangdong Province, China Bias River, a river in north-western India People Bias (mythology), multiple figures in Greek mythology Bias Brahmin, a Brahmin community found in India Bias of Priene, one of the Seven Sages of