Bias
Bias is an unfair prejudice or inclination, especially one that prevents impartial consideration of a matter. The word bias can be used to refer to a number of different things:
-A person’s prejudiced attitude toward a particular group, race, or religion
-The act of showing favoritism toward one person or thing over another
-A person’s tendency to believe information that supports their own beliefs and disbelieve information that goes against those beliefs
-The systematic distortion of information in order to support a particular point of view