5 sentences with “bias”

Although exact numbers will never be known, not least because surviving sources have a pronounced anti-Viking bias, it is clear that their raids were on a scale that dwarfed their earlier efforts.

Thus, in this case, the cultural bias pitting European Christians against (perceived) non-European Muslims proved stronger than the pragmatic, conservative concern to suppress revolutions among European powers.

Although there is obviously a pro-Greek bias in the Greek sources describing the Persian war, they identify an essential reason for Greek victories: thanks to the viability of the phalanx, every Greek soldier (from any polis, not just Sparta) was a real and viable soldier.

In other words, unlike a democracy, in which the mass of non-proprietors could exercise the political right to vote, a republic would limit political rights to proprietors. In this way, republicanism showed a bias towards the elite, an understandable preference given the colonial legacy.

Today they highlight the difficult task of historical work; while the letters are primary sources, historians need to understand the context and culture in which the conquistadores, as the Spanish adventurers came to be called, wrote them and to distinguish their bias and subjective nature.