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Visual Bias

VISUAL BIAS: A general term that refers to any systematic errors when categorizing, or identifying objects, characteristics, or people while using sight1,2. Also, an enhancement…

Vested Interest Bias

VESTED INTEREST BIAS: Another name for Bias Due to Conflicts of Interest (synonym)1; which is a distortion of estimates, interpretations, or conclusions due to a…

Valence Bias

VALENCE BIAS: A tendency to interpret emotionally ambiguous signals as positive or negative1,2. Signals in this scenario may be classified as words, phrases, facial expressions,…

Verification Bias

VERIFICATION BIAS: A bias that occurs when some patients in diagnostic screening studies are evaluated with a new experimental test, but not the gold standard…

Volunteer Bias

VOLUNTEER BIAS: Volunteers, or those who join a study early in recruitment, from a specified population, may exhibit exposures or outcomes which systematically differ from…