Quotes About Bias

Fundamental Attribution Error." The error lies in our inclination to attribute people's behavior to the way they are rather than to the situation they are in.

Todas las historias tienen muchas versiones distintas. La versión elegida nos revela más acerca del narrador que acerca de la historia.

What I hope we can learn is to be aware of how our beliefs color what we see." I wanted to tell Brittain that Lemry was trying

Only women, children, and dogs are loved unconditionally whereas men are loved conditionally (, - and that's not right.)

If you are a woman and you're assertive and you want to get the job done, you're a bitch. If you're a guy, you're just assertive.

If asked to make a drawing, little girls almost always create scenes with at least one person, while males nearly always draw things—cars, rockets, or trucks.

One of the most important implications of own-race bias is that in eyewitness situations the testimony of a witness may be considered less reliable if the accused is of a different race. Most

Civil rights thus does not temper popular sovereignty, it replaces it. What we call political correctness is the natural outcome of civil rights, which makes fighting bias a condition for the legitimacy of the state. Once bias is held to be part of the "unconscious," of human nature, there are no areas of human life in which the state's vigilance is not called for.

If 'myth' is a slippery term, so is 'classical'. It is common shorthand for 'ancient Greek and Roman'. But this shorthand has a history, and a bias.

And I'll bet you," I said to Patsy, "that men who've never had any trouble at all saying 'charwoman' or 'cleaningwoman' will find it absolutely impossible to say 'clergywoman'.

the internal review at Hewlett-Packard a few years back that showed women within the company applied for open jobs only if they met 100 percent of the criteria listed; men, on the other hand, felt they needed to meet 60 percent of the requirements.3

Women with power and authority tend to intimidate people far more than men with the same qualities, particularly if those women deserve the position they have achieved.

Orättvisan passade tydligen bättre en del människor än andra.

To the man with a hammer, it is said, all things look like nails. When brain surgeons look at brain scans they see things that they think require surgery and I am, alas, no exception.

Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow,

Isn't it strange how some people strive to drag everything into politics! A political reason is assigned to everything, and "everything is politics.

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

he knew that men who want something are only too ready to arrange all the evidence to suit their wishful thinking and willingly exclude anything that contradicts it.

We unfortunately seem to be unconsciously biased against those in the society who come out on the bottom.

People have a basic desire to feel good about themselves, and we therefore have a tendency to be unconsciously biased in favor of traits similiar to our won, even such seemingly meaningless traits as our names. Scientists have even identified a discrete area of the brain, called the dorsal striatum, as the structure that mediates much of this bias.

When we are in the grasp of illusion – or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea – instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias, and it presents a major impediment of our ability to break free from the misinterpretation of randomness.

Al-Tabari understood that human truth is always flawed—that realities are multiple and that everyone has some degree of bias. The closest one might come to objectivity would be in the aggregate, which is why he so often concludes a disputed episode with that time-honored phrase "Only God knows for sure.

It has often been said that during the period of liberal Protestantism, when innumerable "lives of Jesus" were written, designed to help educated middle-class Europeans and Americans to respond to the gospel, the portraits that resulted were very obviously self-portraits. They told you more about the writer than about Jesus.

those who care for the good of their country have a duty to publish and that in doing so no one should allow "any private Views or Ends (inconsistent with the common Good) to bias or influence him.