Quotes About Bias

I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.

White people think one thing and black people think another thing about the same event. And we automatically, before we really know what happened, kind of pick our sides.

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimination has played out. You can see it in the simple fact that someone convicted of the same crime is more likely to face the death penalty if they are black.

Some liberals have a problem with me simply because I work at Fox, and nothing I do short of storming off the set in a rage will get them to respect that I work there.

Availability heuristic: people estimate the probability of an event or the frequency of a kind of thing by the ease with which instances come to mind.

These days the branding of Fox News as "Fair and Balanced" often seems primarily to serve the purpose of proving that irony is not dead.

Now there was no need to be concerned with offering equal time or performing a news function.

Why is it that other people's plans so often seem ill thought out while our own make so much sense? I

People see what they want to see.

Although they sometimes claim objectivity, historians are the most subjective of all writers. Hidden behind the thousands of facts unearthed by research, they safely arrange the world to reflect their own vision.

The biggest problems we have in this world are because of what we assume about each other. People make decisions based on appearance or gender or race, without getting to know anyone in that group. Or they have a very limited sample. Then they say things and other people hear them and start to believe them. Pretty soon we have a cultural bias that affects all kinds of decisions.

Why do we remember the bad stuff and not the good?

There is troubling evidence that dismissal on the grounds of self-defense is far more common for men than women.

An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.

A bigot can be defined as a guy who gets caught practicing sociology without a license.

Our prejudices lead us to tear nature where we want it to break. Gary Greenberg, The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.