Quotes About Bias

Prejudice means literally pre-judgment, the rejection of a contention out of hand, before examining the evidence. Prejudice is the result of powerful emotions, not of sound reasoning.

Our psychological predispositions pros or cons must not misleads us. All that matters is the evidence, and the evident is not in.

We receive as friendly that which agrees with [us], we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.

For despite the fact that Man was the only known Race, he still managed to find differences between himself and his brothers and sisters—differences of the coloration of their skin, of the location of their homeland, of the nature of their politics—and Man distrusted anything that was different.

You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!

Confirmation bias had tripped many a scientist, and no doubt many a cop as well. You find only what you're looking for, which makes it far too easy to overlook everything else.

This bias may be at the root of all other biases. Yet being right has little to do with making money.

Another characteristic of conflicts such as these," he said, gesturing toward the board, "is the propensity to demonize others. One way we do this is by lumping others into lifeless categories—bigoted whites, for example, lazy blacks, crass Americans, arrogant Europeans, violent Arabs, manipulative Jews, and so on. When we do this, we make masses of unknown people into objects and many of them into our enemies.

We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by our own private interpretation of the matter, we can see only the one possible motive behind the action, so that our solution may be quite plausible, quite coherent, and quite wrong.

It goes without saying that the artists sympathised not with the actual working classes but with their own idea of the working classes

When we observe or listen to other people, we often don't see them clearly or really hear what they're saying. We see and hear our projections and prejudices instead.

The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.

My view of journalism is that it needs to be independent but it's not independent when someone is paying the bills for you.

You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

Most journalists are idiots.

There has been far too much of journalists deciding they are on the side of something and going out to get the story, instead of truth seeking which is a different thing.

When I think of the name 'Joyce' I think of a grandma or an old chubby Mrs. Claus.

I judge by appearances. People tell me I shouldn't.

Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.

I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.

It's easy to pass judgement on someone else's racism, but what about your own?