Quotes About Bias

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.

The blind see what they want to see.

What is history, but a fable agreed upon?' Ã¢â'¬Â He smiled. "By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account." Sophie

As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?'... By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

It provides a convenient excuse for arbitrary decisions: asked why it rejected a student, a college can say that he or she looked wonderful on paper but didn't fit into the mix. The image of a fair but fickle process also pumps up the applicant pool:

Be careful of averages and how they're applied. One way that they can fool you is if the average combines samples from disparate populations. This can lead to absurd observations such as: On average, humans have one testicle.

A big part of the problem here is that the human brain often makes up its mind based on emotional considerations, and then seeks to justify them. And the brain is a very powerful self-justifying machine.

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

How easy it is first to leap to a false conclusion about someone and then to view everything he does in light of that conclusion.

I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.

I don't think women are better than men, but I do think that men are worse than women.

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Currently, we're finding that about 75 percent of potential jurors have anger or deep-seated hatred toward anyone associated with Enron.

You see I don't think much of my own sex, Mr. Hartright—which will you have, tea or coffee?—no woman does think much of her own sex, although few of them confess it as freely as I do.

Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.

History is mostly guessing, the rest is prejudice.

for most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice)

Bad and good are prejudices which the eternal reality cannot recognize;

Woman is to man as the slave to the master, the manual to the mental worker, the barbarian to the Greek. Woman is an unfinished man, left standing on a lower step in the scale of development.

We typically have a bias that tells us we are less susceptible to bias than everyone else.

Exposure to a mixed body of evidence made both sides even more convinced of the fundamental soundness of their original beliefs.' Confirmation bias is profoundly human and it is appalling. When new information leads to an increase in ignorance, it is the opposite of learning, the death of wisdom.