biasing

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The process of adding a bias, or fixed tendency, that pushes a result in one direction.

   Like tilting a pinball table so the ball keeps rolling toward one side.

   The biasing of the sample toward urban voters distorted the poll's findings.

   Engineers corrected the biasing in the circuit to stabilize the output.

   Similarskewing

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of bias.

   Critics accused the editor of biasing coverage in favor of the incumbent.

   The faulty sensor was biasing every reading slightly high.

   Note

   The -ing form of a transitive verb, so it almost always has an object right after it: biasing coverage, biasing every reading. After a form of be it builds the progressive (was biasing). As a gerund it names the act and can still keep that object (accused of biasing coverage). When it takes an article and a plural instead, the biasings, it has become the noun for the process.

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