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bias
in
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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- Southern white illiterates brought their biases intact to the West from the hills of Arkansas and the swamps of Georgia.†
p. 212.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(bias) a tendency to favor one side -- in people, a prejudice that affects fair judgment; more generally, any built-in lean to move or behave in a particular way (like a car that pulls right)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Specialized meanings of bias include:
- statistics: any of several errors that distort results
- textiles: a line or fold that is diagonal relative to the sides or grain of the fabric
- electronics: a steady-state current that is forced through an electronic device