Quotes About Bias

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

For the most part, for me and my friends, there's always an emotional attachment that clouds women's judgment.

Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what decisions a woman had or hadn't made.

And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?

To a misogynist: To err is woman.

Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

I start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent - substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.

No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.

If you look at any station, you will see that what people are reporting comes from what they believe in, where they stand, their background, what their countries believe in.

Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort items into categories and respond based on what is usually associated with those categories: a form of statistical discrimination, playing the odds.

You can shape statistics to make them look however you want them to.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he's praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she's sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

All Israelis think Arabs steal cars.

Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.

Males and females can both have a fixed mindset about math and science, but it hurts girls more because they are on the negative end of the stereotype.

I just think gay men are looked at much less favorably than gay women. If you look at the overall stereotype, lesbians are sexy, and gay men are disgusting. Girl and girl is fine, and guy and guy seems to just be something completely different.

I think there's definitely a stereotype of white privilege, and that stereotype gets expanded to mean rich, not oppressed, not suffering, et cetera. And yes, it's a misperception.

In mainstream media, everything gets turned into a stereotype of ourselves.

The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always a partial truth.

we form many incorrect beliefs because we have natural tendencies to evaluate evidence in a biased and faulty manner.

I don't blame the tour guide for this mistake. That a regular guy like J. P. Dinsmoor would have opposed U.S. imperialism, well, that's simply unthinkable out here; everyone knows that such views are the affectations of latte-drinking rich kids at fancy colleges, while the average