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Notational bias is a form of cultural bias
Cultural bias

Cultural bias is when someone is biased due to his or her culture. The alleged problem of cultural bias is sometimes said to be central to social and human sciences, such as economics, psychology, anthropology and sociology....
 that is incurred when the available notation
Notation

The term notation can refer to:...
 to describe something introduces a bias in the human
Human

A human being, also human or man, is a member of a species of bipedalism primates in the family Hominidae . Mitochondrial DNA evidence indicates that modern humans originated in east Africa about 200,000 years ago....
 ability to approach it.

An example is the standard notation used for sheet music
Sheet music

Sheet music is a hand-written or printed form of musical notation; like its analogs?books, pamphlets, etc.?the medium of sheet music typically is paper , although the access to musical notation in recent years includes also presentation on computer screens....
 in the West, which may provide a limited ability to describe the melodies of the musical systems used in other cultures. Another example are questionnaires with precoded responses, omitting potentially more appropriate responses.

Computer programming languages provide another example.






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Notational bias is a form of cultural bias
Cultural bias

Cultural bias is when someone is biased due to his or her culture. The alleged problem of cultural bias is sometimes said to be central to social and human sciences, such as economics, psychology, anthropology and sociology....
 that is incurred when the available notation
Notation

The term notation can refer to:...
 to describe something introduces a bias in the human
Human

A human being, also human or man, is a member of a species of bipedalism primates in the family Hominidae . Mitochondrial DNA evidence indicates that modern humans originated in east Africa about 200,000 years ago....
 ability to approach it.

An example is the standard notation used for sheet music
Sheet music

Sheet music is a hand-written or printed form of musical notation; like its analogs?books, pamphlets, etc.?the medium of sheet music typically is paper , although the access to musical notation in recent years includes also presentation on computer screens....
 in the West, which may provide a limited ability to describe the melodies of the musical systems used in other cultures. Another example are questionnaires with precoded responses, omitting potentially more appropriate responses.

Computer programming languages provide another example. Each programming language provides a notation
Notation

The term notation can refer to:...
 which can introduce a bias in how problem solving is approached. For example, if a programming language makes it easy to notate a hash table
Hash table

In computer science, a hash table, or a hash map, is a data structure that associates Unique key with value .The primary operation that hash functions support efficiently is a lookup: given a key , find the corresponding value ....
 then hash tables are more likely to feature in the programmer's articulation of the algorithm used to solve a problem.

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Cultural bias
Cultural bias

Cultural bias is when someone is biased due to his or her culture. The alleged problem of cultural bias is sometimes said to be central to social and human sciences, such as economics, psychology, anthropology and sociology....
 Cognitive bias
Cognitive bias

A cognitive bias is a person's tendency to make errors in judgment based on cognitive factors, and is a phenomenon studied in cognitive science and social psychology....
 Sapir-Whorf hypothesis