The committee said institutional bias was likely responsible for the varied results.

Sarcasm aside, institutional bias is often more systemic and harder to point out.

So it is hard to see any long term institutional bias.

Sir, - Mr Noel Dempsey's present commitment to waste incineration reflects an institutional bias.

He said after 30 years of research into institutional bias against Māori, he felt nothing had changed.

Most societies, including New Zealand, have such centres and it is from them that institutional bias emanates.

Some fear cultural isolation and institutional bias.

The roots of this double standard go beyond the content itself, to an institutional bias within the media industry.

But, it is the institutional bias against anything which threatens a company's bottom-line which allows these attitudes to fester.

Not if there is " institutional bias" here, an ailment to be diagnosed and treated in Conservative Central Office.

Predictably, our error wasn't viewed so kindly by Trump fans, who felt it revealed an unfair institutional bias against their candidate.

At the time, Julia Spelman, of advocacy group JustSpeak, said the figures from the report highlighted what was already known about institutional bias.

Institutional bias remains in the police, justice advocates say, after figures suggested Pākehā were let off twice as often as Māori.