Quotes About Bias

The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

Behavioral economics offers a plausible explanation for overreactions by the market. For example, a long period of bad performance can lead to stereotyping.

There is part of you as a female - no question - that feels like you have to be overprepared and outwork the men because people are automatically going to look at you and say, 'Well, you didn't play football,' or, 'You don't know what you're talking about,' because you are a female.

There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns.

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc.

There's this perception that there's a pipeline problem for women and people of color. I don't buy into that. I think we have a broken doorbell problem, and there are plenty of women and people of color standing at the doorstep trying to get in the door, and nobody's opening it.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

I certainly don't think we're past the point in history where a woman's physical appearance may play some part in job availability or job acquisition.

If you make 'PKP' from the girl's point of view, it would have been the other way round. The boys would have been wrong for the girls. That wouldn't have been misogynistic.

What we get in the States is a pro-Palestinian point of view.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!

When you hear coaches say your son is good, sometimes you think they are just saying it because it's you.

I can only say that sometimes skin colour does make a difference.

A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.

Certainly anyone who complains of sexism is marked down as humourless.

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

People make conclusions about somebody before they actually get to know someone.

If you're born a woman, you have a pre-existing condition.

Within the industry, and maybe people don't want to hear this, but everyone has a conflict of interest. It's a relationship-based industry. There are people we like and don't like.

It hasn't been a conscious thing, like, 'I don't want to listen to a bunch of dudes,' but I genuinely like music by women better.

I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.

People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure Y has a 30 percent chance of death.' Phrased that way, people flock to Procedure X, even though the numbers are the same.