Quotes About Bias

The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

I don't have a very positive attitude towards rappers.

Prejudice is a belief born from a shortcut to thinking

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best

The Jockey Syndrome has been the primary mechanism in American sports for tilting the ostensibly level playing field of sport away from equal opportunity and toward white supremacy.

Who dares say that he is not the friend of the poor man? Who dares say that he is the friend of the employer? I

the human brain is ill-equipped to make rational decisions. Our judgment is frequently torpedoed by emotions such as fear, greed, jealousy, and impatience; by prejudices that distort our perception of reality;

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman is this: The one thinks everything right that is French, while the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgement.

Facts and logical arguments no longer matter; people decide what to believe based on tribal alliances, on what they want to believe, or what they feel is true.

[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to see things in your environment that confirm your preconceived ideas and not see things that conflict with what you already believe.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to see things in your environment that confirm your preconceived ideas and not see things that conflict with what you already believe. I think maybe something like that happens with kids. You see what you want to see.