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un·bi·ased

also un·bi·assed  (ŭn-bī′əst)
adj.
Without bias or prejudice; impartial. See Synonyms at fair1.

un·bi′ased·ly adv.
un·bi′ased·ness n.
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unbiased

(ʌnˈbaɪəst) or

unbiassed

adj
1. having no bias or prejudice; fair or impartial
2. (Statistics) statistics
a. (of a sample) not affected by any extraneous factors, conflated variables, or selectivity which influence its distribution; random
b. (of an estimator) having an expected value equal to the parameter being estimated; having zero bias
c. Also called: discriminatory (of a significance test) having a power greater than the predetermined significance level
unˈbiasedly, unˈbiassedly adv
unˈbiasedness, unˈbiassedness n
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un•bi•ased

(ʌnˈbaɪ əst)

adj.
not biased or prejudiced; impartial.
Also, esp. Brit.,un•bi′assed.
[1600–10]
un•bi′ased•ly, adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.unbiased - characterized by a lack of partiality; "a properly indifferent jury"; "an unbiasgoted account of her family problems"
impartial - showing lack of favoritism; "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge"
2.unbiased - without biasunbiased - without bias        
nonpartisan, nonpartizan - free from party affiliation or bias
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unbiased

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unbiased

adjective
2. Not inclining toward or actively taking either side in a matter under dispute:
Idiom: on the fence.
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Translations

unbiased

unbiassed [ˈʌnˈbaɪəst] ADJimparcial
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unbiased

unbiassed [ʌnˈbaɪəst] adj [person, opinion, information, advice] → impartial(e)
an unbiased jury → un jury impartial
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unbias(s)ed

adjunvoreingenommen; opinion, report alsounparteiisch
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unbiased

unbiassed [ʌnˈbaɪəst] adjobiettivo/a, imparziale
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

unbiased

a. imparcial, sin prejuicios.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
References in classic literature ?
If this judgment is unbiased and correct, and the little folks find this new story "real Ozzy," I shall be very glad indeed that I wrote it.
"You promised me your unbiased opinion of Cecilia," she reminds him; "and you haven't given it yet."
Knightley, and really able to accept another man from unbiased inclination, it was not long that she had to suffer from the recurrence of any such uncertainty.
Every unbiased observer may infer, without danger of mistake, and at the same time without meaning to reflect on either party, or any individuals of either party, that, unfortunately, PASSION, not REASON, must have presided over their decisions.
Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.
In all the rural district near about, and even in the town of Marshall, a mile away, not one person of unbiased mind entertains a doubt of it; incredulity is confined to those opinionated persons who will be called "cranks" as soon as the useful word shall have penetrated the intellectual demesne of the Marshall Advance.
Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces --though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
Miranda grumbled without ceasing during the progress of her hasty toilet, blaming everybody in the universe for the afflictions she had borne and was to bear during the day; she even castigated the Missionary Board that had sent the Burches to Syria, and gave it as her unbiased opinion that those who went to foreign lands for the purpose of saving heathen should stay there and save 'em, and not go gallivantin' all over the earth with a passel o' children, visitin' folks that didn't want 'em and never asked 'em.
Dashwood would have interrupted her instantly with soothing tenderness, had not Elinor, who really wished to hear her sister's unbiased opinion, by an eager sign, engaged her silence.
The missionaries may seek to disguise the matter as they will, but the facts are incontrovertible; and the devoutest Christian who visits that group with an unbiased mind, must go away mournfully asking--'Are these, alas!
"Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point."
He found the essence of Hellenism expressed in a phrase which he took from Swift, 'Sweetness and Light,' interpreting Sweetness to mean the love of Beauty, material and spiritual, and Light, unbiased intelligence; and he urged that these forces be allowed to have the freest play.