Quotes About Bias

J. Anderson Thomson, bir evrimsel psikiyatristin bak?? aç?s?yla bunun için bana baÅŸka bir sebep gösterir: Hepimizin sahip olduÄŸu, cans?z nesneleri sanki birer ajanlarm?? gibi kiÅŸiselleÅŸtirmeye olan psikolojik eÄŸilimimiz. Thomson'un söylediÄŸi üzere, bir gölgeyi h?rs?z sanmaya, bir h?rs?z? gölge sanmaktan daha yatk?n?zd?r.

heteronormativity.

See it? Oh, I have no interest in seeing it. Seeing it might get in the way of my opinion.

What makes the bias particularly pernicious is that we all recognize this bias in others but not in ourselves.

MBA students are not the only ones overconfident about their abilities. The "above average" effect is pervasive. Ninety percent of all drivers think they are above average behind the wheel

the current situation being a toss-up as to what you want to believe. Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. Hence you will find that often what you believe is what you want to believe, rather than being the result of careful thinking.

The human eye is a wonderful device," I quoted from Poems and Other Prevarications absently. "With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

Será mejor que se vaya, teniente. Todos estos prejuicios me dan dolor de cabeza.

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

Tendemos a encasillar en una categoría preexistente cualquier relación nueva que entablamos.

One only ever saw a fraction of someone, whatever it was they chose to show you, and extrapolated a whole person from that. And saw them through a prism of one's own prejudices.

We naturally look for evidence that confirms our beliefs. We then experience what we believe, even when there is evidence to suggest otherwise.

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

It was as if the small differences mattered more than the really big ones—like you had to recognize something before you could hate it properly. No

Men never have to be uncomfortable around women. Women have to be uncomfortable around men all of the time.

We think they're real." Lydia tried to play devil's advocate again. "We think that girl looked like Anna Kilpatrick. We think that she was mutilated in the same way, based on what her mother said and did during a press conference. But are we one hundred percent certain? Or are we just talking ourselves into it?" "Confirmation bias." Claire scowled at her own words. "What's the downside of calling Mayhew?

these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.

When heedful interrelating produces mindful action, this is an example of people acting in order to think. What is different is that the acting is more relationally sensitive and the thinking is more situationally mindful. With fuller attention there is less confirmation bias.

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.

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