Quotes About Bias

We believe what we want to believe." page 109

You and I are not held to the same standards, Andrew. People will forgive a slip, a weakness, a minor personal folly — when it comes from a man. They may click their tongues at you, even gossip about your behavior…but at worst, it will only reflect on you. "If I misstep, it goes far beyond me. Errors on my part are proof that women are unsuited to professional work.

confirmation bias means we look for and find evidence to support our beliefs. We cherry-pick information that confirms what we already know, while ignoring (consciously and unconsciously) information that challenges our existing beliefs.

It seems like people go into Judger whenever there's any kind of conflict,

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

From a girl's point of view, the guy always chooses the slut. From a guy's point of view, the girl always chooses the jerk.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

When a white army battles Indians and wins, it is called a great victory, but if they lose it is called a massacre.

It's not always the story of what happened to you. It's the story the judge wants to hear.

Stereotyping didn't become stereotyping without being rooted in fact. - Petra Reuter

Scientific objectivity is one of our most deeply held, and crippling, illusions.

We know that if a study is funded by a food company, it is eight times more likely to turn up positive findings for that food company's product.

Essentially, each scientist (or even each person reading the research) with a point of view adheres to his or her position with near religious fervor.

prevents us from seeing the world as it actually is. Instead, we see only a distorted version of it. It is as if we see the world through a glass—a glass that magnifies the facts that liberals want us to see and shrinks the facts that conservatives want us to see. The

Indeed, social activism, progressive groupthink, Democratic Party partisanship, opinion and propaganda passed off as news, the staging of pseudo-events, self-censorship, bias by omission, and outright falsehoods are too often substituting for old-fashioned, objective fact gathering and news reporting.

The call for journalists to adopt objectivity was an appeal for them to develop a consistent method of testing information—a transparent approach to evidence—precisely so that personal and cultural biases would not undermine the accuracy of their work.

journalism has become an overwhelmingly progressive enterprise, and the disingenuousness with which it is mostly denied, defended, or even celebrated often leads to a pack mentality, groupthink, repetition, and even propaganda presented as news.