debias

Verb

debias (third-person singular simple present debiases, present participle debiasing, simple past and past participle debiased)

1. (transitive) To remove bias (from)
   • Once judgmental biases are identified, researchers start trying to eliminate them using one of two strategies. The first accepts the existence of the bias and concentrates on devising schemes, such as training programs, that will reduce it. The second claims that the bias is not very robust and...1981, Baruch Fischoff, “Debiasing”, in D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, A. Tversky, editors, Judgement under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases, New York: Cambridge University Press
   • [These] ... may then be used to generate type fractions that are unbiased with respect to galaxy luminosity, size and redshift. The thresholding approach may also be based on these debiased likelihoods, .... The performance of our debiasing procedure may be judged from the thick lines in Fig. 2.2009, Steven P. Bamford et al., “Galaxy Zoo: the dependence of morphology and colour on environment”, in MNRAS, volume 393, number 4, →DOI, page 1324