Definition of UNBIASED

Choose the Right Synonym for unbiased

fair, just, equitable, impartial, unbiased, dispassionate, objective mean free from favor toward either or any side. fair implies a proper balance of conflicting interests. a fair decision just implies an exact following of a standard of what is right and proper. a just settlement of territorial claims equitable implies a less rigorous standard than just and usually suggests equal treatment of all concerned. the equitable distribution of the property impartial stresses an absence of favor or prejudice. an impartial third party unbiased implies even more strongly an absence of all prejudice. your unbiased opinion dispassionate suggests freedom from the influence of strong feeling and often implies cool or even cold judgment. a dispassionate summation of the facts objective stresses a tendency to view events or persons as apart from oneself and one's own interest or feelings. I can't be objective about my own child

Examples of unbiased in a Sentence

Let me offer an unbiased opinion. offered an unbiased judgment of the dancer's performance

Recent Examples on the Web

Officials say the policy is meant to serve as a guide for unbiased day-to-day interactions with transgender and nonbinary people, as well as those who are being detained or transported. — USA TODAY, "Summer snow, yellow jacket super nests, laundered cat: News from around our 50 states," 26 June 2019 Decision aids ideally present accurate and unbiased information in a way that is understandable, translating medical information into everyday language, and in a way that enables patients to compare treatment options. — Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "What you need to know about shared decision-making and how it can lead to better health care," 19 June 2019 Words have great power and there is a spectrum of actions that should be considered from a perspective that is objective and unbiased. — Aria Thaker, Quartz at Work, "How Indian media company Homegrown imploded in the wake of #MeToo," 11 June 2019 This is to ensure that the process is as unbiased and meritocratic as possible. — The Economist, "We’re hiring a journalist to write about Africa," 5 June 2019 The Facebook optimization team could come up with a best guess as to the gender, race, and ethnicity of every user, and make sure that the delivery of ads within certain categories like housing and employment are unbiased. — Antonio García Martínez, WIRED, "Are Facebook Ads Discriminatory? It’s Complicated," 11 June 2019 The goal with this approach, the researchers say, is to make an unbiased real-time assessment of users’ mental state in their natural environments. — Laine Higgins, WSJ, "Can Typos Give Insight Into Your Mental Health?," 11 Oct. 2018 This is why independent, unbiased polls have become an important part of elections — voters need sources of information not manipulated and managed by candidates or special interest groups. — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, "Who’s ahead in Idaho governor’s race? Look closely at who’s being polled," 22 Jan. 2018 Like search neutrality’s harshest critics might have predicted, The Creepy Line could describe examples of bias, but struggled to explain what ideologically unbiased search results would look like. — Adi Robertson, The Verge, "The long, tortured quest to make Google unbiased," 6 Dec. 2018

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