Quotes About Bias

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

As the saying goes, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

As the saying goes, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Reader

History is supposed to be an accurate, and full, account of what actually happened. Politics is never about what actually happened. Politics is always one's point of view about what happened. History reveals, politics justifies. History uncovers; tells all. Politics covers; tells only one side. Politicians hate history truly written. And history, truly written, speaks not so well of politicians, either.

Science is not just about seeing, it's about measuring, preferably with something that's not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain. That baggage is more often than not a satchel of preconceived ideas, post-conceived notions, and outright bias.

The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.

But it doesn't make for good science. Science is not just about seeing, it's about measuring, preferably with something that's not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain. That baggage is more often than not a satchel of preconceived ideas, post-conceived notions, and outright bias.

apparently, for residents of Missouri. But it doesn't make for good science. Science is not just about seeing, it's about measuring, preferably with something that's not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain. That baggage is more often than not a satchel of preconceived ideas, post-conceived notions, and outright bias.

All I ask is to see accurate and authentic data, analyzed from all directions—free of bias and tunnel vision—before I layer my emotions upon it. In the end, we must live with the consequences of our decisions. After all input of facts and statistical analysis, our emotions may defy reconciliation with data.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.

I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.

There's an awful lot about our criminal justice system that is dysfunctional. Everyone who sets foot in a criminal courtroom will see myriad ways the system is dysfunctional.

I think you can tell a great deal from a name. For me, there are certain names that I hear, and I think, 'Urgh.' For me, a name is a shortcut of finding out what class that child comes from and makes me ask, 'Do I want my children to play with them?'

I still see referees officiating based on names on the front and back of jerseys and not based on how the rules are written in the rule book.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

Do we really want the truth, or do we want a truth that fits our narrative?

I had a very narrow-minded view on what was pretty and what wasn't. I automatically thought that tanned was attractive.

If someone plays five good games in a row for the Bavarians, there is more talk about them being in the national team than of those who play five good games in a row for Dortmund or Wolfsburg or Bayer Leverkusen.

It's human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That's bias.

It's a law of our natures, especially when the political fit is on us, to applaud where we already approve, and deride where we don't.

There is a tendency on the left, to think if someone in any way disagrees with the left it must be for the lowest possible reason and if you found the lowest possible motive you have found the right one. Theres this whole culture of no one would leave us or quarrel with us if they weren't a sellout. It is actually a very sick mentality and very widespread.

It is odd, when you think about it, that we accuse racists of "discrimination." This is the very thing of which they are by definition incapable: They think all members of certain groups are the same.