Quotes About Bias

the Senate's composition introduced a lasting political bias in American life in favor of smaller states.

She makes her picture clear and attractive, no matter how unjust she is.

Grant was peppered with conflicting reports from white Democrats and black Republicans in Mississippi, who seemed to reside on different planets. One white complained to Grant about "ignorant

Each side possessed a lurid, distorted view of the other, buttressed by an idealized sense of itself.

Realistic. Dispassionate. Overall he figured there was a good chance of success. Either Karel would let it go, or he wouldn't, multiplied by either he was close by, or he wasn't. Two coin tosses in a row. Disaster priced at four to one, success at four to three. Numbers didn't lie. No cognitive bias.

Women have to work twice as hard, to get half the credit.

Good ideas are not taken seriously enough when they come from people of low status in the academic world; conversely, the ideas of high-status people are often taken too seriously.

Western culture generally, as well as the Christian subculture specifically, has had an unwarranted tendency to think that abstract ideas and facts are the only valid type of knowledge that we possess. Literature challenges that bias, and so does the Bible. The Bible is not a theological outline with proof texts attached. It is an anthology of literature.

Psychologists call this the confirmation bias

The confirmation bias has many unfortunate consequences in the real world.

When a teacher initially believes that one student is smarter than another, he selectively focuses on evidence that tends to confirm the hypothesis.

Thus even random patterns can be interpreted as compelling evidence if they relate to our preconceived notions.

Em vez de convencer as pessoas, os dados apenas polarizaram o grupo. Assim, até mesmo padrões aleatórios podem ser interpretados como evidências convincentes quando se relacionam a noções preconcebidas.

As philosopher Francis Bacon put it in 1620, "the human understanding, once it has adopted an opinion, collects any instances that confirm it, and though the contrary instances may be more numerous and more weighty, it either does not notice them or else rejects them, in order that this opinion will remain unshaken."46

Our assessment of the world would be quite different if all our judgments could be insulated from expectation and based only on relevant data.

And when people interpret the behavior of someone who is a member of a minority, they interpret it in the context of preconceived stereotypes.51

We unfortunately seem to be unconsciously biased against those in society who come out on the bottom. We

Our assessment of the world would be quite different if all our judgments could be insulated from expectation and based only on relevant data.           A

The fact that we assess information in a biased manner and are unaware we are doing so can be a real stumbling block in negotiations, even if both sides sincerely seek a fair settlement.

A subtle but pervasive bias has infiltrated gender studies over the past decade. A bias that allows saying unkind things about the majority under the guise of being kind to the minority. But I think the bias is bias.

People see what they want to see when they need to.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

When people react without knowing the whole story or empathizing with the parties involved, some very bad decisions get made.

In Oklahoma, and perhaps elsewhere too, Klan membership was automatically suspended for any man called for jury duty, so that he could deny it and not be excluded for bias.