metabias

Etymology

From meta- + bias.

metabias means A biasing factor, such as publication bias, that results in the available data becoming artificially skewed. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 94 out of 100.

noun

A biasing factor, such as publication bias, that results in the available data becoming artificially skewed.“An algorithm needs some method of altering its base bias as it is presented with sets of instances. The major claim of this paper is that, as the vast majority of algorithms are intended for use on a collection of problem instances, that meta bias is therefore necessary. Evidence for the fact that algorithms are intended to be reused is that the proponents of newly proposed algorithm test them on ”