Quotes About Bias

Discrimination is difficult, because in its worst form, it is not overt. It is subtle. We

Arrogance leads to ignorance, because it colors one's perception.

Thinking Fast and Slow.

In essence, we tend to sort each other and ourselves into groupings, and that usually leads to an overestimation of similarities between members of a group, and an underestimation of the similarities between insiders and outsiders.

He had a secret but deep-rooted aversion to women drivers, a prejudice he ascribed largely to early, nerve-wracking experiences with all his female relatives.

We had a row about it, actually. She claimed Drek had nothing to do with Jewish people, that he was a kind of chaotic demon and she'd been inspired by a plague doctor's mask, but I mean, we all need to examine our unconscious biases, right?

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

Confirmation bias can cause bosses to make excessively glowing judgments about people they have invested a lot of time and money in or who they simply find to be likable or admirable. Even if your judgment is generally sound, confirmation bias can blind you to mediocre or even downright rotten performance displayed by your favorites.

What you "learn" from Steve Jobs tells more about yourself than about him!

The women—who kept careful tallies—informed the CEO he had interrupted each of them at least six times but never interrupted the four male executive vice presidents. Stunned and embarrassed, the CEO begged for forgiveness, asked them to keep tracking his interruptions, and vowed to halt his sexist ways.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

one human being judged groups of other human beings less worthy than his own. The

We see what we want to believe.

As a person who has looked at the world from both the left and the right sides, I can honestly say the world looks much different depending on which side you are on.

As Kurzban has summarized this finding, "We think we're better than average at not being biased in thinking that we're better than average.

People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth.

More and more of this hunger you have comes from deeper feelings of scarcity. And a lot of this is stemming from the workings of your ancient brain. It's scanning your environment and the negativity bias is being activated, preventing you from enjoying all the good you have.

ancient brain. It's scanning your environment and the negativity bias is being activated, preventing you from enjoying all the good you have. Okay

Excellent. One of the fascinating traits of our ancient brain is its negativity bias. To keep us safe, it's far less interested in what's positive in our environment and significantly more invested in letting us know what's bad. "This brain's default is to hunt for danger," the billionaire continued happily. "So back when life was much more brutal, we could

the worst aspect of our time is prejudice... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Robert Conquest once announced three laws of politics, the first of which says that everyone is right-wing in the matters he knows about.

While exorting us to judge other cultures in their own terms, he [Said] asks us to judge Western culture from a point of view outside---to set it against alternatives, and to judge it adversely, as ethnocentric and even racist.

Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge.