Quotes About Bias

The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.

But the rising chorus urging ESPN to change its stripes is missing something: The intersection of sports and politics is natural. And the left-wing lean of ESPN is inevitable. Conservatives bothered by the slant should stop hand-wringing and start their own network.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

Editorials are, obviously, pieces of opinion journalism. They are not intended to be dispassionate, balanced accountings of a news situation or issue. They present a strong and strongly argued position and do not necessarily present or even take into account the opposing position.

It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.

At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite.

If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.

Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'

In politics, during my organisational roles, I have never seen gender bias within my organisation.

I'm not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.

I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life.

Mainstream media journalists, especially in the United States and West Europe, prefer to ignore those problems in their own countries which they usually criticize in other countries, including in Russia.

Differences in racial outcomes are not the same thing as institutional racism any more than the fact that far more men than women are locked up is evidence of institutional sexism.

Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

All growing up, the outside world wants to tell you what you can and cannot do as a female - what sports are acceptable, what sports are appropriate, what is appropriate to study, what is appropriate to say. But luckily, I have a strong family, and my mom is the most amazing mom in the world. She never let me worry about biases.

The consequences for failure are very different if you're a woman or a person of color than they are if you're a guy. If you're a guy who makes a mistake, you get a second chance. Often, for those of us who are outsiders, we make a mistake, and that's the end of the conversation.

Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Evil people can not see the evil in others because of their own evil.