Quotes About Bias

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

My college coach was a baseball guy. So why is no one questioning why a baseball player is coaching or analyzing softball when the reverse happens?

Women artists, no matter how well recognized they are, are seldom given solo exhibitions or featured in significant group shows. They are never top-ranked in auction choices.

When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.

There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another African-American.

I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a feminizing experience. And that itself is something that they're almost supposed to not want to engage.

What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.

It really sucks when good things are being hated over the bad one.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.

Scientific objectivity is not the absence of initial bias. It is attained by frank confession of it.

Thus the most important thing to know, when reading any report of current happenings, is who is writing the report. What is involved here is not so much an acquaintance with the reporter himself as with the kind of mind he has.

As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

Infants prefer to look at dots that move in biological patterns rather than random ones. They will look longer at geometrical shapes that seem to be self-propelled than ones that seem to move passively. Children also have a bias toward life in the way they learn: they can learn about animals faster than inanimate objects, and they hold on to the memories of what they learn longer. Our knowledge of life, in other words, arises long before we can tell ourselves what we know.

According to Goddard's standards, 47 percent of the white soldiers and 89 percent of the blacks should be categorized as morons. The average white soldier, the psychologists found, had a mental age of thirteen years, just barely above the cutoff for feeblemindedness. The majority of Americans, in other words, was feebleminded or close to it.

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he's a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.

En esta vida lo único que sienta cátedra es el prejuicio.

In this world, the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

los peores misóginos siempre son mujeres.

Frente a un ataud, todos vemos solo lo bueno o lo que querremos ver

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he's a saint or they're not telling the whole story.

Cuando todo el mundo se empeña en pintar a alguien como un monstruo, una de dos: o era un santo o se están callando de la misa la media.

Porque en esta vida lo único que sienta cátedra es el prejuicio.