AIMech AI

Biases

61 Classes

Inductive biases, algorithmic biases, and representational priors.

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Concept Origin Kind / Branch Identifier Evidence / Status
Activity Bias
A use and interpretation bias occurring when systems/platforms get training data from their most active users rather than less active or ina…
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Amplification Bias
A processing bias arising when the distribution over prediction outputs is skewed compared to the prior distribution of the prediction targe…
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Anchoring Bias
An individual bias characterized by the influence of a reference point or anchor on decisions leading to insufficient adjustment from that a…
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Annotator Reporting Bias
An individual bias occurring when users rely on automation as a heuristic replacement for their own information seeking and processing.
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Automation Complacency Bias
aka Automation Complaceny
An individual bias characterized by over-reliance on automated systems leading to attenuated human skills.
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Availability Heuristic Bias
aka Availability Bias, Availability Heuristic
An individual bias characterized by a mental shortcut where easily recalled information is overweighted in judgment and decision-making.
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Behavioral Bias
An individual bias characterized by systematic distortions in user behavior across platforms or contexts or across users represented in diff…
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Bias
A systematic error introduced into sampling or testing by selecting or encouraging one outcome or answer over others.
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Cognitive Bias
An individual bias characterized by deviations from rational judgment and decision-making including adaptive mental shortcuts known as heuri…
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Computational Bias
aka Statistical Bias
A bias caused by differences between results and facts in the process of data analysis (including the source of data the estimator chose) an…
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Concept Drift Bias
aka Concept Drift
A use and interpretation bias due to the use of a system outside its planned domain of application causing performance gaps between laborato…
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Confirmation Bias
An individual bias characterized by the tendency to prefer information that confirms existing beliefs influencing the search for interpretat…
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Consumer Bias
An individual bias arising when an algorithm or platform provides users a venue to express their biases occurring from either side in a digi…
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Content Production Bias
A use and interpretation bias arising from structural lexical semantic and syntactic differences in user-generated content.
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Data Dredging Bias
aka Data Dredging
A use and interpretation bias where testing many hypotheses in a dataset may yield apparent statistical significance even when results are n…
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Data Generation Bias
A selection and sampling bias arising from adding synthetic or redundant data samples to a dataset.
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Deployment Bias
A group bias arising when systems are used as decision aids for humans since the human intermediary may act on predictions in ways that are…
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Detection Bias
A selection and sampling bias characterized by systematic differences between groups in how outcomes are determined potentially over- or und…
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Dunning-Kruger Effect Bias
aka Dunning-Kruger Effect
A cognitive bias in which people with low ability in an area overestimate that ability. Often measured by comparing self-assessment with obj…
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Ecological Fallacy Bias
aka Ecological Fallacy
A selection and sampling bias occurring when an inference about an individual is made based on their group membership.
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Emergent Bias
A use and interpretation bias resulting from the use and reliance on algorithms across new or unanticipated contexts.
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Error Propagation Bias
aka Error Propagation
A processing bias characterized by the effect of variables' uncertainties (or errors more specifically random errors) on the uncertainty of…
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Evaluation Bias
A selection and sampling bias arising when testing populations do not equally represent user populations or when inappropriate performance m…
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Exclusion Bias
A selection and sampling bias occurring when specific groups of user populations are excluded from testing and analysis.
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Feedback Loop Bias
A use and interpretation bias occurring when an algorithm learns from user behavior and feeds that behavior back into the model.
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Funding Bias
A group bias arising when biased results are reported to support or satisfy the funding agency or financial supporter of a research study.
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Group Bias
aka In-group Favoritism, In-group bias…
A systemic bias characterized by favoring members of one's in-group over out-group members expressed in evaluation resource allocation and o…
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Groupthink Bias
aka Groupthink
A group bias in which people in a group make non-optimal decisions due to a desire to conform or fear of dissent.
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Historical Bias
A bias characterized by long-standing biases encoded in society over time distinct from biases in historical description or interpretation.
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Hostile Attribution Bias
A use and interpretation bias where individuals perceive benign or ambiguous behaviors as hostile.
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Human Bias
A bias in human thought based on heuristic principles leading to simplified judgmental operations.
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Human Reporting Bias
An individual bias that arises when users depend on automated systems as heuristic substitutes for their own information-seeking and process…
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Implicit Bias
aka Confirmatory Bias
An individual bias characterized by unconscious beliefs attitudes feelings associations or stereotypes that affect information processing de…
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Individual Bias
A bias characterized by a persistent point of view or limited list of such points of view, applied by an individual.
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Inherited Bias
A processing bias arising when machine learning applications generate inputs for other machine learning algorithms passing on any existing b…
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Institutional Bias
A systemic bias exhibited at the level of entire institutions where practices or norms result in the favoring or disadvantaging of certain s…
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Interpretation Bias
An individual bias where users interpret algorithmic outputs according to their internalized biases and views.
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Linking Bias
A use and interpretation bias arising when network attributes obtained from user connections activities or interactions misrepresent true us…
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Loss Of Situational Awareness Bias
An individual bias occurring when automation leads to humans being unaware of their situation making them unprepared to assume control in co…
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Measurement Bias
A selection and sampling bias arising when features and labels are proxies for desired quantities potentially leading to differential perfor…
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Mode Confusion Bias
An individual bias occurring when modal interfaces confuse human operators causing actions appropriate for a different mode but incorrect fo…
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Model Selection Bias
A processing bias introduced when using data to select a single "best" model from many or when an explanatory variable has a weak relationsh…
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Popularity Bias
A selection and sampling bias where more popular items are more exposed under-representing less popular items.
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Population Bias
A selection and sampling bias characterized by systematic distortions in demographics or other user characteristics between represented user…
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Presentation Bias
An individual bias arising from how information is presented on the Web via a user interface due to rating or ranking of output or through u…
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Processing Bias
aka Validation Bias
A computational bias resulting from judgment modulated by affect influenced by the level of efficacy and efficiency in information processin…
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Ranking Bias
An anchoring bias characterized by the idea that top-ranked results are the most relevant and important leading to more clicks than other re…
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Rashomon Effect Bias
aka Rashomon Effect, Rashomon Principle
An individual bias characterized by differences in perspective memory recall interpretation and reporting of the same event by multiple pers…
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Representation Bias
A selection and sampling bias due to non-random sampling of subgroups making trends non-generalizable to new populations.
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Selection And Sampling Bias
aka Sampling Bias, Selection Bias…
A computational bias introduced by non-random selection of individuals groups or data failing to ensure representativeness.
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Selective Adherence Bias
An individual bias characterized by the tendency to selectively adopt algorithmic advice that matches pre-existing beliefs and stereotypes.
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Simpson's Paradox Bias
aka Simpson's Paradox
A selection and sampling bias where the association between two variables changes when controlling for another variable.
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Societal Bias
A systemic bias characterized by being for or against groups or individuals based on social identities demographic factors or immutable phys…
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Streetlight Effect Bias
aka Streetlight Effect
An individual bias where people search only where it is easiest to look.
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Sunk Cost Fallacy Bias
aka Sunk Cost Fallacy
A bias characterized by the tendency to continue an endeavor due to previously invested resources despite costs outweighing benefits.
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Survivorship Bias
A processing bias characterized by the tendency to focus on items observations or people that "survive" a selection process overlooking thos…
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Systemic Bias
A bias resulting from procedures and practices of systems that operate in ways which result in certain social groups being advantaged or fav…
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Temporal Bias
A selection and sampling bias arising from differences in populations and behaviors over time.
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Uncertainty Bias
A selection and sampling bias favoring groups better represented in training data due to less prediction uncertainty.
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Use And Interpretation Bias
aka Interpretive Bias
A computational bias characterized by inappropriately analyzing ambiguous stimuli scenarios and events.
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User Interaction Bias
An individual bias arising when a user imposes their own biases during interaction with data output results etc.
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