Quotes About Bias

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

The media is controlled.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

A lot of stories that aren't true get out into the mainstream, and it's hard to correct that. People want to hear what they already believe.

Sexism is real in this country.

When parents ask why there are still so few girls in advanced science and math classes in high school, I tell them, because girls still need way more encouragement than boys to take those courses.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

When evaluating the suitability of a woman for a role, or using certain language in job advertisements, biases can creep in.

I don't see how I ever could have thought that having an all-white crew for a special about race would be OK.

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

Anytime you're saying that a person will be thinking one way or another or biased one way or another just based upon race, I just think it's certainly going to be subject to that criticism of racism.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

I believe very deeply that the world would be a better place if it weren't run as it's currently run, which is by men.

I think screenwriters, I think editors in the cutting room - they have a lot of responsibility that we don't think about, but they could cut the coverage of an Asian person to focus on a white person because, unknowingly, they think that white person has more to say or is more interesting.

Directors didn't want to work with me because I was 'too controlling.' If it had been a man, it wouldn't have meant a damn thing.

Error-prone or biased artificial-intelligence systems have the potential to taint our social ecosystem in ways that are initially hard to detect, harmful in the long term, and expensive - or even impossible - to reverse.

All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book. Often, that agenda is seeming clever and/or taking someone who has received more than her fair share of attention down a notch.

I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.'

It's very difficult to figure out, for me, what stops really talented young female filmmakers from having the kind of careers that their really talented young male counterparts are having.

I know I'm being biased about Chicago, but I think Chicago got the most talented people in the world.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

Criticisms of mainstream media bias have been a staple of the conservative movement and talk radio from the beginning.