Quotes About Bias

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

Two people pass each other. As one looks upon the other's skin color, the other is looking back at their appearance. Both justifying, how better and righteous they are, in their own insecurities.

This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

Il est plus facile de désintégrer un atome qu'un préjugé

Whatever one says on the air is bound to be misunderstood; for people take from the heard or printed discourse that which they are predisposed to hear or read, not what is there- all that TV can do is to increase the number of misunderstanders by many thousandfold – and at the same time to increase the range of misunderstanding by providing no objective text to which the voluntarily ignorant can be made to refer.

Like ageism and sexism, lookism was everywhere, resulting in the good-looking getting the best jobs, winning all the plaudits, being let off the most parking tickets by soft-hearted traffic wardens; being generally favoured.

People were only too ready to believe things that were manifestly untrue. When it came to remarks that portrayed others in a bad light, people were happy to believe things that showed others to be weak or flawed in some way: we believed that of them because it made us feel better; it was as simple as that.

Every story has two sides. So far, we've only heard one. The stupid side."   LIFE

Why should everybody embrace the herd instinct, which required one to regard one set of politicians as being always in the right while demonizing another set?

And he readily admitted that he knew nothing about women's clothing, as most men would have to admit; and yet women always claimed to know what clothes were right for a man. There was some injustice here, thought Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, although he was not quite sure how one might pursue the point.

Everyone knew that once a woman was 30, she might as well be dead.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, male nurses ride the "glass escalator"; although they are in the minority, they receive higher wages and faster promotions than women in the same jobs.

most of what goes wrong in systems goes wrong because of biased, late, or missing information.

Why are other people's prejudices so strange, while our own are so thought-out and reasonable?

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.