Quotes About Bias

Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.

That's the problem with our perspective; we always assume we're right based on the information we have.

Steering Trying to persuade tenants to go to a certain neighborhood or preventing them from going to a particular neighborhood.

Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. Right now you and Jeremy might get along fine, but in a few years he'll think of himself as a man but you'll probably still be a boy to him. And if he feels that way, he'll turn on you in a minute.

The Japanese didn't want Koreans to live near them, because they weren't clean, they lived with pigs, and the children had lice. Also, Koreans were said to be even

Men have choices that women don't.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

When people are drunk the first time you meet them, you are inclined to think of them as permanent dipsomaniacs

0.00000001% of what's happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

We cannot tell, at first sight, who is correct or wrong, because we are all caught up in a different perceptive, views and opinions.

If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support rather than illumination.

We must reject the presumption that holding Christian beliefs disqualifies us as "biased," while the philosophical naturalists get a free pass by presenting their position as "unbiased" and "rational." Most of all, we need to liberate Christianity from the two-story division that has reduced it to an upper-story private experience, and learn how to restore it to the status of objective truth.

Every history book, no matter how ostensibly objective, is basically lies filtered through bias and a certain amount of relative ignorance.

The public's dilemma is to know how to consume the news with an ability to extract opinion from the simple facts and evidence... The best solution to the fact/opinion dilemma is to acquire more diverse information across the ideological and geological divide. If you find yourself relying on one source of information for the news, whether right or left, you are likely to be exposed to more opinion that reinforces rather than challenges your own.

That is how a man speaks. And that is why.

A focus on one method above all others is a kind of fetish. These cases suggest that some of the historical examples of "science gone awry" arose from what I designate methodological fetishism. These are situations where investigators privileged a particular method and ignored or discounted evidence obtained by other methods, which, if heeded, could have changed their minds.

Balance was interpreted, it seems, as giving equal weight to both sides, rather than giving accurate weight to both sides.

assumptions are not perceived as such."98 They are so embedded as to go unrecognized as assumptions, and this is most likely to occur in homogeneous communities.

I am for the whites because I am white; I have no other reason, and that one is good.

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

Prejudice is the emotional commitment to ignorance.