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Naturalness Bias

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

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

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…

Not My Scene Bias

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

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

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-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

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;…