Quotes About Bias

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

I was very anti-French everything for a very long time.

When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you.

In the U.S., highly selective renditions of its history have served in practice to impose blinkers on some of its citizens and catered to vested interests.

I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I'd asked for software recommendations via Twitter and Facebook. For seemingly every function, the answer was 'Man, you have to use Evernote.'

Everything is subjective, right? A question that's easy for you is hard for somebody else, and vice versa.

If you're not a victim, and you don't need help, then you're definitely seen as a threat as a woman.

The notion that a black suspect can do no wrong and is always the victim is B.S.

We should get rid of 'tick box' measures that do nothing to address underlying inequality in areas like employment. And we should interrogate the claims of victimization made by some organizations to get their slice of pie.

Judges can bring their own biases about sexuality in the courtroom, causing victims untold pain in the telling and retailing of their stories.

Although study after study shows black men are more likely to be victims of crime, rarely do they receive victim treatment. When black athletes are crime victims, the undertone seems to be they somehow were at fault.

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

Any reasonable person can look at video games and see that we don't represent women well.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

I have a bias, and I don't deny that. But it's not so much an emotional attachment with objects that we study: it's a point of view based on the evidence. We simply know more about Enceladus.

Nobody talks about it. But everyone knows that if you signed at Michigan or UNLV, you were viewed one way. If you signed at Duke or Indiana, you were viewed another way.

He's a man, dear," Amelia explained kindly. "Sustained thinking is very difficult for them." "As opposed to women," Leo retorted, "who have the remarkable ability to make decisions without doing any thinking at all.

He's a man, dear,' Amelia explained kindly. 'Sustained thinking is very difficult for them.' 'As opposed to women,' Leo retorted, 'who have the remarkable ability to make decisions without doing any thinking at all.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.

Educators worried that they might encourage women to pursue math and science who would then be left high and dry. One electrical company asked for twenty female engineers from Goucher, with the added request, "Select beautiful ones for we don't want them on our hands after the war.

Hunting after arguments to make good one side of a question, and wholly to neglect and refuse those which favor the other side ... [is] willfully to misguide the understanding; and is so far from giving truth its due value, it wholly debases it.

When men age they're called sophisticated. When women age they ain't called at all.