Quotes About Bias

Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, vain or uptight or mean to people.' People have a sense of who you may be because of the job you do. That's unfair judgment.

Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important.

The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups.

I think there's a value in people talking, it's just that we're in this culture now where everyone wants to 'out' each other at every moment, for their unconscious bias or whatever, and people then don't feel free to just talk. Do you know what I mean?

I don't take anything that I read in the newspaper at face value on either side - from anybody.

We test everything on a one- and a three-year cycle. And you want to stress-test a model, and the three-year test usually does that because you have a growth and value bias. You have different interest rate environments.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

In other words, even though they might be doing better than boys at school (as is often the case), girls have gotten the message that the boys are supposed to be the smart ones.

Speech codes may well increase tension and edginess rather than relieve them. A student at the State University of New York at Binghamton complains that "If you look at someone funny, it's a bias incident."137

Prejudice is best lubricated with ignorance

It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.

He liked me because I am short. I flatter myself. He did not dislike me. He liked no one except Josephine and he liked her the way he liked chicken.

The English are serial racists--one group gets accepted, another group becomes the scapegoat.

If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.

There's rampant sexism, of course there is! It just goes without saying. Every woman in the workplace knows this; [every woman] in the workplace has to work harder than a man to prove themselves.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.