Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sample group, and he reports that five of the ten studies found conclusive gains for bused blacks over their non-bused peers in a number of skill areas. The remaining studies are of questionable conclusiveness (in each case by Leach's admission) due to lack of controls, sampling bias, and as I pointed out in the case of Ann Arbor, because testing for effects was done too early after the policy change...
...cited excessive bureaucratic burdens and costs, rapid changes in federal policy, and a bias to solve immediate social problems as threats to the "loose collection of autonomous scholars" who make up the university...
Your article is very disturbing by reason of its obvious bias in favor of Sadat, the "moderate Arab...
Even discounting the bias of the Hanoi press, Western observers were reasonably satisfied that the Communist conquest of almost three-quarters of South Viet Nam was proceeding so far without widespread bloodbaths or reprisals. Some refugees reported public stonings as well as scattered executions. In Danang, a policeman was beheaded in the marketplace soon after the Communist forces arrived, and the Viet Cong tied several captured ARVN soldiers together and blew them up with grenades. In Hué, after a drumhead court-martial, five policemen were shot. None of the refugees, however, reported mass executions similar to those during...
...interviewer. Kathy Kleeman '74, said, "We try to get to know her as a person, what she is interested in and what she wants....We don't look at their grades and board scores and often don't know them at the end of the interview. That might bias our impressions." Radcliffe also sets a standard half-hour time for each interview, intended to prevent the applicant from guessing at how interested the interviewer is in the candidate by the length of the interview...