Quotes About Bias

Public opinion is driven by perception rather than by fact, particularly in this town. If a newspaper

Did you imagine that science was a disinterested pursuit of the truth? Well, you were wrong.

In other words, I look through my eyes and see only a version of the world, a version that can be, and often is, colored or twisted by what I want to see.  Another person may witness the same events, and yet observe something entirely different.

Overall, the handbook focused us on trying to disprove our assumptions about a business and thus avoid falling into the trap of confirmation bias.

Mental Filter. You pick out a negative detail in any situation and dwell on it exclusively, thus perceiving that the whole situation is negative.

Mental Filtering. You filter out or ignore the positives and focus entirely on the negatives. It's like a drop of ink that discolors the entire beaker of water.

Mind Reading. You jump to conclusions about how others are thinking and feeling without any clear evidence.

To presume that dictionary-making can somehow avoid or transcend ideology is simply to subscribe to a particular ideology, one that might aptly be called Unbelievably Naive Positivism.

Troeltsch's so dumb he thinks a manila folder's a Filipino contortionist.

Truth sometimes does not matter, Quinn. There are those who have decided what they think your brother is, and nothing will persuade them differently, truth be damned.

There is something I want you to see. Something related to what I was saying about the propensity of human beings to prejudge others and then cling to that prejudice no matter how wrongheaded it may be."     The

What is it in the human condition that tries to impose our own view onto others, without the ability, capacity, propensity, to receive somebody else's openly?

the more opinions you have, the less you see

I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.

anti-Semitism may be a good starter, but it is a bad sticker.

Falsely accused, hideous press, enormous legal expense. I spent millions trying to see my daughter, Dylan, to get a less biased judge, couldn't swing it.

One could understand Judge Wilk's first impression, an impression he would never rise above despite all evidence to the contrary.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

No one is saying you cant be prejudiced or a bigot. We are all human and hold prejudices. If you state that you dont have prejudices, your lying! But, when you act on it and victimize innocent citizens and fellow innocen officers, than that is a concern.

The Handy Hammer Syndrome, in which the hammer in your hand makes everything look like a nail.

an incomplete listing of anything reveals that a selection has been made, and any act of selection is of course political.

They condemn what they do not understand.

It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.

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