NATURALNESS BIAS: A belief that ones achievement is more due to their innate abilities, than their learned abilities1,2. For example, a scientist with Naturalness Bias…
NORMALCY BIAS: A tendency to minimize the probability of potential threats or harms, or their dangerous implications or consequences1,2. It is suggested that people and…
NONRESPONSE BIAS: Another name for Participation Bias (synonym)1; which is a bias that arise due to the differences in persons who participate in a study…
NO ABSTRACT AVAILABLE (NAA) BIAS: A bias relevant to studies of knowledge synthesis (e.g. systematic reviews), that occurs when new data or information is omitted…
NOT MY SCENE BIAS: A bias that occurs when one de-emphasizes the importance, ignores, or dismisses a study because it does not relate their interests…
NONPARTICIPATION BIAS: Another name for Participation Bias (synonym): A bias that arise due to the differences in persons who agree to participate in a study…
NO EVIDENCE BIAS: A bias that arises from assuming an observation is true because there is no current, or observable evidence to refute it. For…
NON-RESPONDENT BIAS: Non-respondents, or those joining a study later in recruitment, from a specified population, may exhibit exposures or outcomes which systematically differ from those…
NON-CONTEMPORANEOUS CONTROL BIAS: Secular changes in definitions, exposures, diagnoses, diseases, and treatments may render non-contemporaneous controls non-comparable1. This bias is related to Diagnostic Access Bias;…