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Perhaps they could be called "errors", errors we have systematic tendencies to make, and when describing them, explain every time why they are errors, why they fail to cut through to the truth. Then people may not find it so easy to interpret "biases" as being like taste in music or clothes.
Disclaimer: I have no experience of trying to teach this stuff to anyone.
Yeah, I figured 'errors' would be a prime candidate for replacing 'bias'. Almost anything else that made any sense at all would be better.
Other possible words: "distortion", "contortion", "inclination", "tendency", "trend".
(generated using Google Translate, translating "bias" to another language and back)