biass

To tie this in with another topic, I would suggest that maybe human irrationality biass the market on both ends of the bell curve.

The Minimum Wage, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Where the biass really causes lasting damage is in the discussion of a major political decisions such as "Attack Iraq and Iran Yea or Nay."

From porn to Portillo | Mark Lawson 2011

One solution to all this is to stop buying the papers that show a biass.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

When a school has a biass to one gender in a significant way it hugely effects teaching and robs parents of choice of mixed sex or single sex education.

Parental choice doesn't exist 2007

Who is it that has endeavoured to biass simple juries, by an Argument as warm and vehement, as those of the Bar, in a Case where the Province was contending vs. a Custom -- House -- Officer?

John Adams diary 12, 30 December 1765 - 20 January 1766 1961

If the Convention who are comparatively so little biased by local views are so much perplexed, How can it be expected that the Legislature hereafter under the full biass of those views, will be able to settle a standard.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Various

Compliance do a little biass and over-sway Judgment.

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

I am not to give up my right to your protection and patronage, because you have commended my book: for though I acknowledge so many obligations to you, I do not add this to the number; in which friendship, I am convinced, hath so little share: since that can neither biass your judgment, nor pervert your integrity.

Dedication 1917

You see what excellent dispositions I have to be an useful member of society: I had always a strong biass to the study of natural philosophy.

The History of Emily Montague 1769

You see what excellent dispositions I have to be an useful member of society: I had always a strong biass to the study of natural philosophy.

The History of Emily Montague Frances Brooke 1756