Quotes About Bias

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

As far as I can tell most people in football do not take colour into account when judging people. I certainly don't.

We all know that looks matter. What most of us don't understand is just how much looks matter and how difficult it is for us to ignore a person's appearance when making a social judgment.

When you use social media to create a judgment on somebody, it is such a small sampling.

We're a very judgmental society.

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

I have heard stories of how the Malayali jury members trying to play down actors from our own state, stating various reasons.

Just because something doesn't confirm your existing beliefs does not mean it's a hoax.

At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is.

Because women get more labor rights than men, meaning they get maternity leave, the employer prefers to hire men.

Never underestimate a well-dressed bimbo.

Partly, it is because we tend to think of black and white poverty differently. Sandra Barnes (2005, 17), citing census data from 2000, notes that "75 percent of all impoverished are white," but also that (taken from Flanagan 1999): "poverty among whites appears to be less expected, less recognized, less stigmatized, and less often the focus of research and commentary." Andrew Hacker (1995, 100) adds that:

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping something might improve if I viewed all sides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and be able use one's prejudice as an excuse.

Hence insight may be regarded as the core of social knowledge. It is arrived at by being on the inside of the phenomenon to. be observed, or, as Charles H. Cooley put it, by sympathetic introspection. It is the participation in an activity that generates interest, purpose, point of view, value, meaning, and intelligibility, as well as bias.

There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions.

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

Whatever the "real" differences between the sexes may be, we are not likely to know them until the sexes are treated differently, that is alike.

Whatever the "real" differences between the sexes may be, we are not likely to know them until the sexes are treated differently, that is alike. And

availability bias—making decisions on the basis of more recent and more accessible information loss aversion—the strong preference to avoid a loss rather than to make an equivalent gain selective cognition—taking on board facts and arguments that fit with our existing frames risk bias—underestimating the likelihood of extreme events, while overestimating our ability to cope with them.

Out of sheer convenience, the vast majority of experimental studies, which have been conducted by academic researchers in North America, Europe, Israel and Australia, have used their own universities' undergraduate students as their subjects. As a result, between 2003 and 2007, 96 percent of people studied in such behavioural experiments came from countries that were home to only 12 percent of the world's population.

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There is so much bias for self-love, so much recklessness about truth in general, and so much of even a sincere faithlessness of narration, that no partial account of anything is to be trusted.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.