Actor-observer bias — In psychology, people are known to display an actor observer bias, when actors tend to attribute their own behavior to their circumstances (i.e., situation causes), but tend to attribute the behaviors of those we observe to their dispositions… … Wikipedia
Observer effect — may refer to: Observer effect (information technology), the impact of observing a process while it is running Observer effect (physics), the impact of observing a physical system Observer expectancy effect of psychology, how people change their… … Wikipedia
Observer-expectancy effect — Participant observer effect redirects here. Psychology … Wikipedia
Bias — This article is about different ways the term bias is used . For other uses, see Bias (disambiguation). Bias is an inclination to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of (possibly equally valid) alternatives. Bias can come in many … Wikipedia
bias — 01. The ref is obviously [biased] against us; his brother is on the other team. 02. During your speaking test you will be evaluated by a teacher other than your own. This is to make sure that the tester has no [bias] either for or against you. 03 … Grammatical examples in English
bias — See interview bias ; interviewer bias ; non response ; objective ; observer bias ; prejudice ; sample selection bias ; sampling error … Dictionary of sociology
Bias (disambiguation) — Bias is an inclination towards something, or a predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, or predilection. Bias may also refer to:In science and statistics: * Bias (statistics), the systematic distortion of a statistic ** A biased sample… … Wikipedia
Observer effect (physics) — For other uses, see Observer effect. In physics, the term observer effect refers to changes that the act of observation will make on the phenomenon being observed. This is often the result of instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of… … Wikipedia
observer — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ casual ▪ To the casual observer, it would have looked like any other domestic argument. ▪ informed, knowledgeable (esp. AmE) ▪ acute, astute … Collocations dictionary
Experimenter's bias — In experimental science, experimenter s bias is subjective bias towards a result expected by the human experimenter. David Sackett,[1] in a useful review of biases in clinical studies, states that biases can occur in any one of seven stages of… … Wikipedia
