Quotes About Bias

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pushed into math or computers or anything like that. Girls took AP history and AP English and AP European history. And boys took calculus and physics.

It's great to engage with the mainstream media to get messages out, but the most empowering tool is to create records of our lives, and our own images, which are not filtered through judgements, biases, or misunderstandings.

Tools are not neutral. The computer is not a neutral tool.

There's an ideological belief on the left that you should not use nonpartisan tools.

Most people, they're dug in. 'Michael Jordan is the best player, and there's nothing LeBron can do.' A lot of people dug in that LeBron is whiny and he complains, he jumped teams, he wants all the best players. And once you have your mind made up on a particular topic, there's no moving you off of that.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone knows that monopoly power is bad for markets, that people are racially biased and that illness is unequally distributed by social class.

I think often there is great rivalry between neurosurgeons and cardiac surgeons. I think I maybe have a bit of bias with neurosurgeons' opinion that nothing tops neurosurgery! But that makes for a quite interesting conflict between the two.

There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

were trying to tell the dumb blonde to close her mouth, but the woman clearly took her hair color very seriously.

Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?

You will be far more likely to receive racial preferences than to suffer racial discrimination.

By deleting, distorting and generalizing, we inhabit our perceptions and interpretations of Reality

memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

Every time Donald Trump thinks things are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is, is rigged against him.

It was understandable. But very unfair.

It is not just that it is more difficult for women to succeed; they get treated much more harshly if ever they mess up.

More interesting is another cultural connection this reveals: that unpopular, controversial or just plain different views when voiced by a woman are taken as indications of her stupidity. It is not that you disagree, it is that she is stupid.

Eyewitnesses could be the most unreliable. Not only did people lie, but even the truth tellers did not always get it right. Human brains had a way of filling in details that fit their own personal worldviews.

My bias is that it does exist. But I would never say that I know that. Until I prove it.

based on the way they look. If

Any subject that displays inequality or may promote discrimination

Just like religion, science as an institution is and always has been plagued by the temptations of confirmation bias. With alarming ease it morphs into pseudoscience, even – perhaps especially – in the hands of elite experts, and especially when predicting the future and when there's lavish funding at stake.