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Open access citation advantage ( OACA ), sometimes known as FUTON bias (for "full text on the net"), is a type of bias whereby scholars tend to cite academic journals with open access (OA)—that is, journals that make their full text available on the Internet without charge (not behind a paywall )—in preference to toll-access publications.
Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars is a 2012 "tell-all" book about the sex lives of Hollywood stars from the late 1940s to the early 1980s by Scotty Bowers, with Lionel Friedberg as a contributing author. Bowers makes many claims about the sex lives of many people, most of whom were associated with ...
Self-selection bias is a major problem in research in sociology, psychology, economics and many other social sciences. [ 1] In such fields, a poll suffering from such bias is termed a self-selected listener opinion poll or "SLOP". [ 2] The term is also used in criminology to describe the process by which specific predispositions may lead an ...
Reporting bias. In epidemiology, reporting bias is defined as "selective revealing or suppression of information" by subjects (for example about past medical history, smoking, sexual experiences). [ 1] In artificial intelligence research, the term reporting bias is used to refer to people's tendency to under-report all the information available.
Selective exposure is a theory within the practice of psychology, often used in media and communication research, that historically refers to individuals' tendency to favor information which reinforces their pre-existing views while avoiding contradictory information. Selective exposure has also been known and defined as "congeniality bias" or ...
Publication bias. In published academic research, publication bias occurs when the outcome of an experiment or research study biases the decision to publish or otherwise distribute it. Publishing only results that show a significant finding disturbs the balance of findings in favor of positive results. [ 1] The study of publication bias is an ...
Selection bias, which happens when the members of a statistical sample are not chosen completely at random, which leads to the sample not being representative of the population. Survivorship bias , which is concentrating on the people or things that "survived" some process and inadvertently overlooking those that did not because of their lack ...
Sampling bias. In statistics, sampling bias is a bias in which a sample is collected in such a way that some members of the intended population have a lower or higher sampling probability than others. It results in a biased sample[ 1] of a population (or non-human factors) in which all individuals, or instances, were not equally likely to have ...