Systemic bias

"Systemic bias" is a neologism used to describe a bias which is endemic in or inherent to a system, especially a human system. The analogous problem in non-human systems is often called systemic error. The word corresponds to that used in systemic pesticide or to systemic risk, though in the latter cases systemic means something that undermines the whole system at once.

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Neologism - Bias - Endemic - Systemic pesticide - Systemic risk - System

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When it is used to contrast with random error, in that it is not just a matter of inaccurate results or readings, but results that are persistently inaccurate in a particular way, then the more common usage is systematic bias or systematic error. Some users of the phrase try to draw a distinction between systemic and systematic corresponding to that between unplanned and planned, or to that between arising from the characteristics of a system and from an individual flaw.

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Random error - Systematic bias - Systematic error

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