单词 | bias-free |
释义 | bias-freeadj. Free from bias (in various senses of bias n.); esp. not influenced by favouritism or prejudice; impartial; (of language) not discriminatory against or offensive to a particular group. ΚΠ 1921 Q. Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 17 549 A bias-free weight is as out-of-place with an arithmetic or harmonic average as a biased weight is for a geometric average. 1972 Link (Chicago) Mar. 8/2 The bias-free society we strive for will come about not in a flash of light. 1992 Amer. Libraries 23 367/1 This work will be useful in..eliminating the use of discriminatory words and encouraging the use of bias-free language. 2014 B. Chakrabarty Left Radicalism in India (2015) Pref. p. xv I cannot claim to have written a bias-free account. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1921 |
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