Difference between Prejudice and Bias

What is the difference between Prejudice and Bias?

Prejudice as a verb is to have a negative impact on someone's position, chances etc. while Bias as a verb is to place bias upon; to influence.

Prejudice

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To have a negative impact on someone's position, chances etc. To cause prejudice.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts. Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative. An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion. The damage caused by such fear or hatred.

Bias

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To place bias upon; to influence.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection(textile) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabrica voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrodethe difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it

We hope you now know whether to use Prejudice or Bias in your sentence.

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