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bias someone against someone or something to prejudice someone against someone or something. Please avoid biasing everyone against me. One bad experience biased all of us against that brand of sausage. See also: against on the bias on a diagonal line; on a diagonal pathway or direction. The panels of the dress were cut on the bias. The seamstress sewed the fabric on the bias. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This could have led to uncertainties in the exposure assessment, biasing the effect estimates toward null. For example, despite the fact that Wal-Mart employees are far more likely to be retired, secondary workers or teenage members of a family, and to work part time, the study assumed they had the same demographic composition as workers at other employers, thus biasing wage and other comparisons. Because the other two arms of this trial are continuing, the DSMB released the least amount of information necessary, to avoid any risk of biasing study results. |
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