Bias - Other Aspects

Other Aspects

• Economic: when people/government interpret a law/contract in their favor for economic reasons.
• Inductive bias in machine learning.
• Cultural bias: Interpreting and judging phenomena in terms particular to one's own culture.
• Racism, regionalism and tribalism: Judging people or phenomena associated with people based on the race/ethnicity, region of origin, or tribe of the people, rather than based on more objective criteria.
• Sexism: Judging based on gender, rather than on more objective criteria.
• Sensationalist: Favouring the exceptional over the ordinary. However this sentence structure makes is sound like an appeal to popularity or normalcy fallacy. This is actually a more complex problem, whereby, the proponent elevates the importance of the evidence to more subjects than it is relevant. This is accomplished by willful bias, assumption or, putting conclusion ahead of evidence. In practice, this includes emphasizing, distorting, or fabricating exceptional news stories to boost popularity.
• Funding bias in scientific studies also known as the agent-principle dilemma.
• Medical bias is also known as a physician having a conflict of interest.