Quotes About Bias

Of course, everyone is intolerant of something or someone.

Americans are suckers for an English accent.

The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.

It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

I hate being judged but yet, I judge!

Our purest deeds are those done subconsciously. Otherwise they are biased.

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

Once individuals are identified as belonging to an outgroup, there seems to be no limit to he human capacity for cruelty.

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

Why was it that when noughts committed criminal acts, the fact that they were noughts was always pointed out? The banker was a Cross. The newsreader didn't even mention it.

And just like that, I'd been assessed and judged. Nurse Fashoda didn't know the first thing about me but she'd taken one look at my face and now she reckoned she knew my whole life story -- what had gone before and what was yet to come.

Why was it that when noughts committed criminal acts, the fact that they were noughts was always pointed out?

Dejemos a las mujeres guapas para los hombres sin imaginación.