Jan 15, 2023 01:15
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French term

biais d'objectivité

French to English Medical Medical (general) Research study article
Hi,
Here is the sentence "il semble alors évident qu'il peut y avoir un biais d'objectivité du chirurgien, remplissant le questionnaire, dans l'interprétation des réponses apportées par le patient"

Thanks

Joanna

Discussion

joanna menda (asker) Jan 30, 2023:
Thanks everyone for all your suggestions.
Emmanuella Jan 15, 2023:
Biases in the interpretation... of research results
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15012470/
Gladis Audi, DipTrans Jan 15, 2023:
I agree with Conor. The source specifies biais "d'objectivité" = cognitive bias related to judgement (not reasoning).
Conor McAuley Jan 15, 2023:
I suggest that "unobjective" is the most straightforward way of translating the term.

Proposed translations

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can be biased

I think "biais d'objectivité" is a tautology here. I would just put something along the lines:

"It thus seems obvious that the surgeon might be biased while filling the questionnaire when it comes to interpret the patient's answers".
Peer comment(s):

agree Ilian DAVIAUD
3 hrs
neutral Andrew Bramhall : No tautology; also, your context sentence is badly flawed.
4 hrs
agree Drmanu49
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disagree Daryo : "a tautology"? no it's not - there many different types of bias https://www.verywellmind.com/cognitive-biases-distort-thinki...
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An objective bias

"it seems obvious then that there may be an objectivie bias on the part of the surgeon when filling in the questionnaire, through his (subjective) interpretation of the answers given by the patient"
Peer comment(s):

agree Matt Darley
5 hrs
Thank you!
neutral FPC : An objective bias would mean a bias which would be appreciated by anyone who weren't biased, i.e. an incontrovertible bias. It's fine but not what the text means: it simply says the surgeon's objectivity/judgment is biased
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Yep, thanks. If you read my proposed context translation, it is obvious what is meant.
neutral Emmanuella : Idem FPC
10 hrs
Thank you!
disagree Drmanu49 : a bias cannot be objective!
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lack objectivity

I would say:
[Given the circumstances,] it seems obvious that the surgeon completing the questionnaire may lack objectivity in interpreting the patient's answers.
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perception bias/es

Unconscious bias/es, an umbrella term, might also work...

e.g. the surgeon may be influenced by unconscious biases...
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Objectivity Bias

Deleted my earlier comment, as I'd mistakenly typed ObjectIVE Bias instead of ObjectivITY Bias. Objectivity bias/Biais d'objectivité seems to be a term of art used in the field of cognitive bias, with similar definitions in each language. See examples.

The point being, I think, that it's a cognitive bias induced by your own tendency to rates others views according to how objective you believe them to be - in this case, surgeons potentially discounting the patients' responses.

This is out of my field, though - I'm just going by the example texts.
Example sentence:

Objectivity bias in eyewitness performance

Biais d'Objectivité - Définition : Tendance à considérer que les personnes perçues comme objectives sont plus crédibles que d’autres

Peer comment(s):

agree MatthewLaSon : Hello, friend. This is my understanding, too. Take care.
2 days 17 hrs
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