Quotes About Bias

When a black person kills a black person, the media ignores it completely.

The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic state.

Everyone has images in their mind of what to expect from different groups.

We have this imbalance where the people who are making algorithms aren't talking to the people who are using them. And the people who are using them aren't talking to the people who are having decisions made about their lives by them.

If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

I know some people believe impartiality is key, and it's necessary in some situations, but in others - if something is so fundamentally wrong, why do we have to make out we're impartial?

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

I was increasingly disappointed in how so many of the members here of the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job: the bias at which they come from it at.

In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.

As psychologists have shown in countless experiments, final estimates made this way are biased toward the anchor, so a low anchor produces a lower estimate than a high anchor does. That means the quality of the anchor is critical. Use a good anchor, and you greatly improve your chance of making a good forecast; use a bad anchor, get a bad forecast. Unfortunately, it is easy to settle on a bad anchor.

In the social sciences, "survivorship bias" is the common mistake of noting only those things that made it through some selection process while overlooking those that didn't.

As with reference-class forecasting, the big hurdle to black swan management is overcoming uniqueness bias. If you imagine that your project is so different from other projects that you have nothing to learn from them, you will overlook risks that you would catch and mitigate if you instead switched to the outside view.

This time is different" is the motto of uniqueness bias.

Megaproject development today is not a field of what has been called 'honest numbers'.14 It is a field where you will see one group of professionals calling the work of another not only 'biased' and 'seriously flawed' but a 'grave embarrassment' to the profession.

Men survey women before treating them. Consequently how a woman appears to a man can determine how she will be treated.

a muslim man carries out a mass shooting...and he's called a terrorist, a white man does exactly the same thing and he's called a madman both sets are mad, Yazz I know, Warris I know -p58, from Girl, Woman, Other

Waris said it's crazy that people are so stupid to think over one and a half billion Muslims all think and act the same way, a Muslim man carries out a mass shooting or blows people up and he's called a terrorist, a white man does the same thing and he's called a mad man both sets are mad, Yazz

a white girl walking with a black girl is always seen as black-man-friendly

Let's be very clear. Corporate media is not "objective"; they are not the "referees" trying to provide "all sides of the story." Corporate media are profit-making entities owned and controlled by the ruling class and some of the wealthiest people in the country. And, like all private corporations, they have an agenda.

In their minds, women can't do anything wrong.

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice. But in not noticing, one loses opportunities for greater insight into oneself and one's experience. A significant dimension of who one is in the world, one's Whiteness, remains uninvestigated and perceptions of daily experience are routinely distorted. Privilege goes unnoticed, and all but the most blatant acts of racial bigotry are ignored. Not noticing requires energy.