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title: "Infrastructure bias"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_bias"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T03:53:07.459896+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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In economics and social policy, infrastructure bias is the influence of the location and availability of pre-existing infrastructure, such as roads and telecommunications facilities, on social and economic development.
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In science, infrastructure bias is the influence of existing social or scientific infrastructure on scientific observations.
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In astronomy and particle physics, where the availability of particular kinds of telescopes or particle accelerators acts as a constraint on the types of experiments that can be done, the data that can be retrieved is biased towards that which can be obtained by the equipment.
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Procedural bias, related to infrastructure bias, is shown by a case of irregular genetic sampling of Bolivian wild potatoes. A 2000 report of previous studies' sampling found that 60% of samples had been taken near towns or roads, where 22% would be the average, had the samples been taken at random (or from equidistant points, or at specifically varying distances from towns, representative of the average terrain density).
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== References == |