Quotes About Bias

Distinction bias is the tendency to view two options as more dissimilar when evaluating them simultaneously than when evaluating them separately.

Projection bias is what behavioral scientists call the scenario when we mistakenly use our current feelings to project how we will feel in the future.

The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of posterity or their own baggage of values and prejudices.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

The partisan press would end to-morrow, but for the narrowness and meanness of readers.

Our prejudices and self-interest shape the world into what we want it to be, or fear it is.

The mind-closing danger of biased beliefs occurs when we don't know we hold them. Sometimes we have to swallow our pride and engage in clear-eyed analysis.

When their feelings don't fit the facts, they may unconsciously revise the facts to fit their feelings. This may be one reason why their perception of events is different from yours.

Your country is ridden with class prejudices.

Men hear what they like and invent the rest.

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look then, if they like what they see, they listen.

Don't waste time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

language is never neutral

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

Astrology is a cousin of racism.

What's the big-deal about "Rock" music, anyway? What does it have over, say, Polka music? Polka music has integrity - it's music made by down-to-earth, regular human beings, whereas "Rock" music is made by morons for the benefit of idiots!

ideologues of every stripe, as well as folks with interests economic, political, or personal, can interpret data and statistics to suit their own purposes...

however she was a woman and I'd have more luck conjuring up the thoughts of a chinaman than I would figuring out what she was conspiring

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

Antisemitism is a categorical impugning of Jews as collectively embodying distasteful and/or destructive

Antisemitism is a categorical impugning of Jews as collectively embodying distasteful and/or destructive traits.

invention of the new word antisemitism. The invention marked an ominous qualitative change, in that the new form of hostility focused not on what Jews believed or how they behaved but on what they intrinsically and unchangeably supposedly are.