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The standard deviation. There are many, and it's easy to construct one. The mean of a sample from a normal population is an unbiased estimator of the population mean. Let me call the sample mean xbar. If the sample size is n then n * xbar / ( n + 1 ) is a biased estimator of the mean with the property that its bias becomes smaller as the sample size rises.
The sample mean is an unbiased estimator of the population mean because the average of all the possible sample means of size n is equal to the population mean.
bias - favouring one point of view.
Sampling bias.
Only if you make it unbiased. Samples can be weird. If you make it unbiased, then yes.