if 'prejudice' means 'bias'

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• prejudice — A forejudgment; bias; partiality; preconceived opinion. A leaning towards one side of a cause for some reason other than a conviction of its justice. See also average man test bias discrimination. Evidence. Within rule allowing exclusion of… …   Black's law dictionary

• prejudice — Prejudice, in normal usage, means preconceived opinion or bias, against or in favour of, a person or thing. While it is important to remember that biases can be positive as well as negative, nevertheless the term most commonly refers to a… …   Dictionary of sociology

• bias — [[t]ba͟ɪ͟əs[/t]] biases, biasing, biased 1) N VAR: usu with supp Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing. Bias against women permeates every level of the judicial system... There were fierce …   English dictionary

• Bias — In a clinical trial, bias refers to effects that a conclusion that may be incorrect as, for example, when a researcher or patient knows what treatment is being given. To avoid bias, a blinded study may be done. * * * 1. Systematic discrepancy… …   Medical dictionary

• bias — {{11}}bias (n.) 1520s, from Fr. biais slant, slope, oblique, also figuratively, expedient, means (13c., originally in Old French a pp. adjective, sideways, askance, against the grain ), of unknown origin, probably from O.Prov. biais, with… …   Etymology dictionary

• Anti-bias curriculum — The anti bias curriculum is an activist approach which its proponents claim challenges forms of prejudice such as racism, sexism, ableism/disablism, ageism, homophobia, and other –isms. Anti bias curriculum has a strong relationship to… …   Wikipedia

• Computational trust — In Information security, computational trust is the generation of trusted authorities or user trust through cryptography. In centralised systems, security is typically based on the authenticated identity of external parties. Rigid authentication… …   Wikipedia

• Anthropic units — The ability to characterize, quantify, and measure objects in the physical world is an essential milestone towards the development of complex human civilizations. A vast number of measurement standards have evolved over time, and these standards… …   Wikipedia

• Utilitarians (The early) — The early utilitarians Bentham and James Mill G.L.Williams Jeremy Bentham was born in 1748 in London; his prosperous father, a lawyer who became wealthy from property rather than the law, planned out for his son a brilliant legal career. After an …   History of philosophy

• Fusion of horizons — is a dialectical concept which results from the rejection of two alternatives: objectivism, whereby the objectification of the other is premised on the forgetting of oneself; and absolute knowledge, according to which universal history can be… …   Wikipedia

• Childhood and migration — has long been a neglected issue in social sciences despite the fact that children make up a large proportion of migrants and take on important roles in mediating between their world of origin and their host society. Through school and other child …   Wikipedia