Quotes About Bias

He doesn't look like the type who's into cookies anyway.

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge!

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

If we like them, they're freedom fighters . . . If we don't like them, they're terrorists. In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, they're temporarily only guerrillas.

Your view of the world is just as skewed as someone who has never seen combat... We all state our convictions from within our convictions.

of 'base-born old folk or ignorant and simple people, vulgar rustics', or of women

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

How can U fairly assess someone from the outside looking in ... majority of the times you will be wrong.

As the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights reported in its study of the racial implications of the law, the criminal justice system is "ten times more likely" to rule a homicide justifiable "if the shooter is white and the victim black" than if an African American kills someone white and claims self-defense. 32 In fact, the report notes, stand-your-ground laws actually worsen and increase the racial disparity outcomes of self-defense claims. 33

The whole culture of the white South was erected on the presumption of black inability.

and thus they selectively remember parts of their life, focusing on those parts that support their own points of view.

between the conscious lie to fool others and unconscious self-justification to fool ourselves, there's a fascinating gray area patrolled by an unreliable, self-serving historian—memory. Memories are often pruned and shaped with an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.

even reading information that goes against your point of view can make you all the more convinced you are right.

All of us recognize variation within our own gender, party, ethnicity, or nation, but we are inclined to generalize about people in other categories and lump them all together as them. This habit starts awfully early.

A stereotype might bend or even shatter under the weight of disconfirming information, but the hallmark of prejudice is that it is impervious to reason, experience, and counterexample.

The line "But some of my best friends are [X]," well deserving of the taunts it now gets, has persisted because it is such an efficient way of resolving the dissonance created when a prejudice runs headlong into an exception.

The confirmation bias is especially glaring in matters of political observation; we see only the positive attributes of our side and the negative attributes of theirs.

Therefore, when you are about to make a big purchase or an important decision—which car or computer to buy, whether to undergo plastic surgery, or whether to sign up for a costly self-help program—don't ask someone who has just done it. That person will be highly motivated to convince you that it is the right thing to do.

Memories are often pruned and shaped with an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.

Selective memory is the handmaiden of fashion.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Our favorite messengers are sometimes wrong and our least favorite messengers are sometimes right.