Quotes About Bias

I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in the stock market, in reports of crime and natural disaster, etc. The fact is that big, noisy, anomalous events catch our attention because they're anomalous, which isn't a problem in and of itself.

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

I hated Duke, and I hated everything Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me.

Men and women wonder if merely walking or driving justifies being followed, stopped, or questioned. This practice and the presumption of guilt so often associated with people of color must come to an end.

It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purses, hitting the lock button on store, or just basic attitudes. And even as a U.S. congressman, as a black man, it is very, very frustrating, and you build up an internal anger about it that you can't act on.

One of the saddest things in this world is to see a child grow up hating one of their parents because they only got one side of the story.

It's very dangerous for a storyteller to walk into a situation with a political agenda because you end up telling a story about issues instead of telling a story about people.

I'd say 50 on men is like 33 on women in Hollywood. The standards - it's just the way we do our storytelling. And I hope it will change, because I think it's dumb.

People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point.

Strangely, while illiberal feminists treat conservative women as men in drag, men who identify as women are treated as women.

For as long as anyone can remember, the history of Kosovo has been a battlefield pitting Serbs against Albanians. Each believes different things because each has been taught different things, and as they reach further back into time it becomes easier to argue whatever they want in order to find support for their view of the present.

Most racists are less vicious than Nazis, and at the same time, they're considerably harder to deal with. It is precisely the way that gardenvariety racists don't think of themselves as such that makes it tougher to address them, especially because, despite their lack of self-awareness when it comes to their biases, their willingness to deploy the same is legion.

Murray hated Jews as well. Blacks had some virtues, but Jews had none, in his view.

The problem with history was that it was written by the survivors, and they usually wrote in the sunshine on harvest day, from victory stands.

The information we gain that conflicts with our original assessment or conclusion, we conveniently ignore or dismiss, while the information that confirms our original decision makes us increasingly certain that our conclusion was correct.

The culture of news is a culture without nuance.

Invariably, identical facts provoke starkly different interpretations.

The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins.

When you are different, that can lead to judges not marking you right because they think you look 'odd' - and that's in any competition.

There is a difference between being offended and being prejudiced and even being bigoted against. There's a difference between that and racism.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Have you ever been offered a job by a poor person? No one has.

I think it is likely that within every department there are some officers who subtly, if not otherwise, are biased in the way they go about enforcing the law. I think that is just life. We know that to be true.