USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bias is prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

Detailed explanation-2: -To be biased towards something means you favor it over something else. To be biased against something means you do not favor it over something else. So to be biased towards dogs means that you favor dogs over something else, such as cats.

Detailed explanation-3: -Three types of bias can be distinguished: information bias, selection bias, and confounding. These three types of bias and their potential solutions are discussed using various examples.

Detailed explanation-4: -The cognitive prejudice can be regarded as the discrepancy between social perceptions and the social reality, whereas the moral prejudice may be conceptualized as an incongruity between the perceptions or attitudes and the principle of justice shared by a group or society.