Quotes About Bias

If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anyone's death, but I do think that when the white public uses it's press to magnify the fact that there are lives of white hostages at stake, they don't say "hostages," every paper says "white hostages." They give me the impression that they attach more importance to a white hostage and a white death, than they do the death of a human being, despite the color of his skin.

Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.

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When we make judgements about things based on appearance, instead of on what really matters, we get into trouble.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. – Alexander Pope

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

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On the other hand, Clairaut reported that Lepaute exhibited an "ardor" that was "surprising"—perhaps surprising to him because Lepaute was a woman; he later removed the acknowledgment of Lepaute's considerable contribution from the published text. (Much of her later work was published without attribution by other people, including her husband, France's royal clockmaker.)

Nobody involved in a conflict thinks they're the villain.

I bet his real name is Chad, he looks like one.

Only women are ever called persnickety," Mary Alice said. "Men get to be 'detail oriented.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.

You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.

Our desires seek out supporting reasons and tend to ignore facts and arguments that do not fit in with them.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

Oricine ?tie c? eviden?ele ascund întotdeauna sisteme. Nimic nu e mai p?rtinitor decât impar?ialitatea.

Not only are we subject to cognitive biases, we also frequently seek out things that reinforce them. We interpret facts through the prism of our beliefs; we read the newspapers and seek the company of people who will confirm us in those beliefs; and thus we stick obstinately to these beliefs, whether or not they are correct.

We all suffer from flawed thinking and decision making.

El sesgo de la víctima identificable, por humano que sea, afecta a las políticas públicas; como dice el aforismo (con frecuencia atribuido a Stalin, pero de origen dudoso), «la muerte de un hombre es una tragedia; la de un millón de hombres, una estadística».

Men's truths rather too neatly fit their convenience, have you ever noticed that?

A prejudice can be a lovely thing to have, which is exactly why so many people have them in the first place. A prejudice is a simplification: Every member of this group is exactly the same and therefore I never have to think about any of them. What a time-saver!