Bias vs. Stereotype

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Main Difference

The main difference between Bias and Stereotype is that the Bias is a inclination or outlook to present or hold a partial perspective and Stereotype is a thought that may be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things

  • Bias

    Bias is prejudice in favour of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

    Biases can be learned implicitly within cultural contexts. People may develop biases toward or against an individual, an ethnic group, a sexual or gender identity, a nation, a religion, a social class, a political party, theoretical paradigms and ideologies within academic domains, or a species. Biased means one-sided, lacking a neutral viewpoint, or not having an open mind. Bias can come in many forms and is related to prejudice and intuition.

    In science and engineering, a bias is a systematic error. Statistical bias results from an unfair sampling of a population, or from an estimation process that does not give accurate results on average.

  • Stereotype

    In social psychology, a stereotype is any thought widely adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of behaving intended to represent the entire group of those individuals or behaviors as a whole. These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality. Within psychology and across other disciplines, different conceptualizations and theories of stereotyping exist, at times sharing commonalities, as well as containing contradictory elements.

Wikipedia
  • Bias (noun)

    Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.

  • Bias (noun)

    The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.

  • Bias (noun)

    A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

  • Bias (noun)

    A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.

  • Bias (noun)

    The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.

  • Bias (noun)

    In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.from 1560s

  • Bias (noun)

    A person’s favourite member of a K-pop band.

  • Bias (verb)

    To place bias upon; to influence.

    “Our prejudices bias our views.”

  • Bias (adjective)

    Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

  • Bias (adjective)

    Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

  • Bias (adverb)

    In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

    “to cut cloth bias”

  • Stereotype (noun)

    A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).

  • Stereotype (noun)

    A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.

  • Stereotype (noun)

    A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.

  • Stereotype (noun)

    An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

  • Stereotype (verb)

    To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.

  • Stereotype (verb)

    To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

    “to stereotype the Bible”

  • Stereotype (verb)

    To print from a stereotype.

  • Stereotype (verb)

    To make firm or permanent; to fix.

Wiktionary
  • Stereotype (noun)

    a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

    “sexual and racial stereotypes”

    “the stereotype of the woman as the carer”

  • Stereotype (noun)

    a person or thing that conforms to a widely held but oversimplified image of the class or type to which they belong

    “don’t treat anyone as a stereotype”

  • Stereotype (noun)

    a relief printing plate cast in a mould made from composed type or an original plate.

  • Stereotype (verb)

    view or represent as a stereotype

    “the city is too easily stereotyped as an industrial wasteland”

Oxford Dictionary

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