Quotes About Bias

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

They look at us as though we smell and they don't.

The cops liked to solve cases by "discovering" evidence against whomever they decided must be guilty.

I find it very hard to be fair-minded About people who go around being air-minded.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

The trouble with prejudice is, there's usually a reason for it,' but she now knew better than to say this to Guy.

Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

No good can come of association with anything labelled Gwladys or Ysobel or Ethyl or Mabelle or Kathryn. But particularly Gwladys.

These extraordinary measures were not about me being treated the same as other people; they were about me being treated worse.

The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a single stroke, we delude our students into believing that bad prose turns opinions into facts and we alienate them from their own inner lives.

Competition among women is woven into the fabric of a society that prefers men.

Very few people want to know the truth. They wish to be confirmed in their own opinions, which is a very different thing—very different indeed.

When you guess, you're still stuck with your own personal biases and stereotypes. Understanding can only come from actually experiencing or viewing things from another person's truly distinct perspective.

we tend to put people into three buckets: people that we are sure we like, people we don't know if we like, and people we don't like.

I think Upton Sinclair once wrote that a man has difficulty understanding something if his salary depends on his not understanding.

When people remembered incidents in which they were the perpetrator, they often described the harmful act as minor and done for good reasons. When they remembered incidents in which they were the victims, they were more likely to describe the action as significant, with long-lasting effects, and motivated by some combination of irrationality and sadism. Our own acts that upset others are innocent or forced; the acts that others do to upset us are crazy or cruel.

But that's just me. Others see things differently. My point here is just that the failure of people to attend to data in the political domain does not reflect a limitation in their capacity for reason. It reflects how most people make sense of politics. They don't care about truth because, for them, it's not really about truth.

Further, spotlights only illuminate what they are pointed at, so empathy reflects our biases.

Asking people to feel as much empathy for an enemy as for their own child is like asking them to feel as much hunger for a dog turd as for an apple—it's logically possible, but it doesn't reflect the normal functioning of the human mind.

An identity of being 'on the left' has become a lazy way of feeling morally superior; an identity of being 'on the right' has become a lazy way of feeling 'realistic'.

They are the people who currently dominate the media. An identity of being 'on the left' has become a lazy way of feeling morally superior;

Our tendency to attribute our behavior to our context or to blame others for it is directly in contrast to how we tend to judge others' actions. When it comes to other people, we are far more likely to attribute the bad meal to their inability to cook rather than to other causes. This is called the fundamental attribution error.