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13. What is the difference between prejudice and bias?

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Prejudice, as an unreasonable position of a hostile nature. A prejudice person may often present biased statistics to support his beliefs.

Bias as applied to statistics: "Statistics. a systematic as opposed to a random distortion of a statistic as a result of sampling procedure."

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Prejudice- not based on reason or actual experience.
Bias- Usually based off of relation/knowledge or favor
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