Quotes About Bias

That bias is built in because of the asymmetry of time: there is a nonzero probability at any moment that we will be felled by an unpreventable accident like a lightning strike or landslide, making the advantage of any costly longevity gene moot.

loss aversion, the sunk-cost fallacy, and throwing good money after bad, is patently irrational, but it is surprisingly pervasive in human decision-making.

Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

You could tell he was a bad guy because he didn't have a tan

When do we simply follow convention, doing what others request or demand; and when do we rely on our own individual judgment, with all its limitations and biases, and reject the requirements of the collective? In other words: How do we establish a balance between reasonable conservatism and revitalizing creativity?

When we say that there's a 5% chance that RED is true, we are making a statement not about the global distribution of biased roulette wheels (how could we know?) but rather about our own mental state. Five percent is the degree to which we believe that a roulette wheel we encounter is weighed toward the red.

If you decide what color jelly beans to eat based just on the papers that get published, you're making the same mistake the army made when they counted the bullet holes on the planes that came back from Germany.

Assessing the scale of the p-hacking problem is not so easy—

rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible.

The great threat we pose to each other is a fruit of our sublime ability to generalize.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind.

There is a sure rule for judging books just as there is for judging men: it is enough to know by whom they are loved, and by whom they are hated.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

Most of the human race, by one means or other, are prepossessed with principles opposed to the religion of reason.

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Having virtually invented a paid profession and being almost exclusively available to the rich, doctors were suspect to the working class.

We all also suffer from confirmation bias, the tendency to spot evidence in support of a proposition that we already think is true. So it is not always the case that people start with a belief and then set out to communicate it; much of the bullshit to which we are exposed comes from folks who have a compelling reason to communicate something and then come to believe it. Or to think they believe it.

The information we are fed is largely based on the information we choose to consume.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

Many Americans are eagerly watching the devolution of traditional news with relish because they agree with the prevailing narratives, whether based on true facts or imagined fiction.

Moral licensing comes into play when people rely on past behavior to dismiss current prejudiced behavior. This is better known as the 'Some of my best friends are...' defense.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

It's impossible to remove agendas.