Quotes About Bias

But we can and should remember to ask who or what might be missing from the data we're being told about.

Efek kepemilikan itu tidak rasional, dan itu nyata-tetapi tidak mempengaruhi orang-orang yang berpengalaman dalam situasi-situasi realistis.

There are some overtly racist and sexist people out there—look around—but in general what we count and what we fail to count is often the result of an unexamined choice, of subtle biases and hidden assumptions that we haven't realized are leading us astray.

For obvious reasons, this particular flavor of survivorship bias is called "publication bias." Interesting findings are published; non-findings, or failures to replicate previous findings, face a higher publication hurdle.

The counterintuitive result is that presenting people with a detailed and balanced account of both sides of the argument may actually push people away from the center rather than pull them in. If we already have strong opinions, then we'll seize upon welcome evidence, but we'll find opposing data or arguments irritating. This biased assimilation of new evidence means that the more we know, the more partisan we're able to be on a fraught issue.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.' – Upton Sinclair, American writer

Middle-class and more affluent blacks are also disproportionately the targets of subprime mortgage loans, paying much higher rates of interest than comparable white borrowers, and are subjected, according to the available evidence, to racial profiling of all types.

You can always find an expert to confirm your belief, no matter how ridiculous.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.

Now no one can fault the conqueror for writing history the way he sees it, and certainly not for digesting human events and discovering their patterns according to his point of view. But we can fault him for not owning up to what his point of view is.

He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had

One of the most malevolent characteristics of racist thought is that it never produces new knowledge.

There is no way to answer the systemic distortions of the press.

Why young women? Why not young men?" She smiled. "Because the history of this world is written by men determined to cast women in the worst light.

We are particularly susceptible to bias when we are hurting or desperate. An

However, researchers have also found that whites who hold implicit biases are convinced that their advocacy for voter IDs is not based on racism but rather on ensuring election integrity.

Racism is a prejudice erected into a system.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

The newspaper fits the readers program while the listener must fit the broadcasters program.

It wouldn't have been such a leap, truth be told. She'd been seeing things through men's eyes for years. Her entire career, men had informed her what was good and what wasn't. And she'd always assumed they were right.

Labour markets, meanwhile, are becoming biased towards a limited range of technical skill sets, and globally connected digital platforms and marketplaces are granting outsized rewards to a small number of "stars".

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.