Wednesday, 20 April 2016

meaning - What does "biased in your favour" mean in this sentence?

I checked several dictionaries and googled and checked previous biased-related questions here including Is it "biased towards" or "biased against"?, Word for being biased "towards the other direction"?, What do you call a person who is regionally biased? (unrelated),



Moreover, subscription-only LDOCE says:




biased (adj.):



  1. unfairly preferring one person or group over another:
    Of course I'm biased, but I thought my daughter's paintings were the best.
    racially biased attitudes.

    biased against/towards/in favour of
    news reporting that was heavily biased towards the government


  2. more interested in a particular thing than in another:
    biased towards
    The majority of infants are biased towards being social rather than being antisocial.




OED says:




biase (v.): To give a bias or one-sided tendency or direction to; to incline to one side; to influence, affect (often unduly or unfairly).,
biased: Influenced; inclined in some direction; unduly or unfairly influenced; prejudiced.




But I still can't understand the meaning of the following sentence:




I appreciate that you took the time to contact me. You are great in my opinion! But then I am very biased in your favour!




Does the sentence imply that:



a. The person saying this, is somewhat being unrealistically nice at their own expression of the addressee being great (in a negative way);
or



b. Do they mean that they're not great enough to be able to return the favor (in a positive way being keen on the addressee's greatness)?



I also notice that LDOCE uses "favour" rather than favor, which probably indicates that this usage is British only?

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