Quotes About Bias

Why is it that everything she did was justified and everything I said was unforgivable.

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on Friends is.

You want to make the first move but you can't because people will think that "OH YOURE A GIRL, WHY WILL YOU DO THAT?"

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

It is hard knowing that maybe if I was born a man and doing the exact same thing I would have more money than sense.

If people don't want to cast you, they give you this stupid excuse that it's because you don't fit into a certain image.

Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.

I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

In terms of mainstream media it's very difficult to break through if you're on the left.

She thought briefly of one police force in a neighboring state, some years back, which without a second thought had for many years classified people murdered in its jurisdiction as "male victim," "female victim," and "prostitute.

The progressive media scarcely covered the Haitian protest. Somehow the idea of Haitian black people calling out the Clintons as aid money thieves did not appeal to the grand pooh-bahs at CBS News, the New York Times, and NPR.

Soon Jews were also removed and excluded from journalism, farming, teaching, and the theater. By 1938, Jews could not practice investment banking or the professions of law and medicine. This combination of segregation and state-sponsored discrimination against Jews mirrors what the Democrats did to African Americans.

All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is a subtle form of disease.

Managing diversity means treating everyone, not equally, but equitably.

Not for the first time, he cringed when he saw his own prejudices manifest in other people.

Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does.

Love is a telescope: hatred is a microscope.

Data that conflicts with beliefs is often ignored," the doctor said. "It has been a serious problem in every field, including in medicine, even among those who should know better.

the power of a free press. Its power was amplified when everyone had a voice. Theories without a foundation in facts or basis in reality could take flight and go viral. No barriers to entry. No editors. No fact checking, or if there was, it couldn't be trusted; "fact checkers" had biases and agendas, too, after all. The loudest voices dominated the chaos that was social media hysteria, and all of it contributed to the chaos. Suppression and censorship only fueled the flames.