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Sources of bias

Sources of bias

Posted Mar 7, 2013 12:49 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Sources of bias by man_ls
Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)

Yeah, I must have put it clumsily. My point was that lack of information is one obvious source of bias. But even when we have full information, we *still* have a definite tendency to be biased toward group members - even if subconsciously, as per your link.


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