Quotes About Bias

I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women. After long enough, you just roll over and accept the fact that you're a sexist, bigoted, insensitive, crude, cretinist cretin.

Data has an annoying way of conforming itself to support whatever point of view we want it to support.

we biased ourselves toward resources over the processes. It is what I described in the previous chapter as something parents do, and it's an easy mistake to make.

Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties.

Irkla ilgili önyarg?lar insan?n beynini çürütüyor.

The patroller required no reason to stop a person apart from color.

Numbers can't be racist, right? But the data can be dumb or wrong, though, and if you feed shit into the computer, it gives you shit right back.

Newspapers are read differently now [. . .] Between the lines.

Yet sometimes the world judges females by a different standard and seeks to punish them unjustly.

El verdadero peligro de un ensayo de esta índole no radica en que se detecte un enfoque personal, sino en que se escriba con un tinte tendencioso.

The public never saw how producers and executives juiced up stories. Exaggerating some details and downplaying or ignoring others. How they went after something or someone, not based on how strong or important the story was, but what their ratings books told them.

Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. That was what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price.

The man looks the world full in the face, as if it were made for his uses and fashioned to his liking. The woman takes a sidelong glance at it, full of subtlety, even of suspicion. Had they both worn the same clothes, it is possible that their outlook might have been the same.

Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority.

Mr. Oscar Browning was a great figure in Cambridge at one time, and used to examine the students at Girton and Newnham. Mr. Oscar Browning was wont to declare "that the impression left on his mind, after looking over any set of examination papers, was that, irrespective of the marks he might give, the best woman was intellectually the inferior of the worst man.

We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We would prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen.

Our spiritual comparisons are also incredibly biased. We have an amazing ability to compare things in a way that causes us to come out on top. And when we come out on top, it's hard not to look down on people who don't measure up.

People don't tend to work that way. We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.

The simple truth is that the truth does not exist; it all depends on a person's point of view.

She was well aware that some people—particularly the older guys—thought she'd only been promoted to detective because she was a woman. It was possible they were right. But she'd worked her ass off, too.

Founder Rouse wanted to challenge a lot of ingrained biases in our culture; taste was not among them. He gave people the ticky-tacky houses they wanted. The only real choices were brick or wood siding, a Baltimore or a D.C. prefix for your phone.

It's amazing how people can take just one small part of a person and draw massive conclusions.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

Okay, she's tough, but if Miranda were a man…no one would notice anything about her, except how great she is at her job