Quotes About Bias

If 10 out of 10 news articles about Jordi Alba are negative, it's normal that people think badly.

When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

As a black, you find you have to be two or three times better than a white even to play. And when it comes to front-office jobs, management believes you'll never be as good.

drunk guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not." Compounding

guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not.

In fact, ever since I first learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere.

In fact ever since I first learned about confirmation bias I've been seeing it everywhere. Everywhere.

we tend to love nothing more than to declare other people insane.

They assumed the endeavor was brilliant and rational because they were brilliant and rational, and we tend to automatically assume that everybody else is basically just like us.

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds.

Each of us thinks we see the world directly, as it really is. We further believe that the facts as we see them are there for all to see, therefore others should agree with us. If they don't agree, it follows either that they have not yet been exposed to the relevant facts or else that they are blinded by their interests and ideologies.

And when the blush of a schoolgirl's cheeks was mistaken for the crimson of a holy man's fingers, it was the schoolgirl who was called hussy, tramp, slut.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

Ah," I said with a bleak smile. "What was a quaint and silly folk belief becomes a major news item when white people believe in it.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

We often favor feeling right, over being right.