Quotes About Bias

Mentorship has been an excuse not to promote women.

Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential.

In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys.

I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

When you have a son in football like Anton, it will always be deemed as if he got the prop up and given the contract, no matter how hard he works. So much so that when he was offered a deal at Chelsea, I advised him not to take a professional contract.

For whatever reason, the mainstream media, for the most part, affixes itself to progressive or liberal propaganda.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda.

The bad news is that most traditional VCs have a youth bias that they will state very overtly. You always wonder if that's a self-fulfilling prophecy or if it's something about the nature of those businesses.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

It's worth pointing out that no one faults a male protagonist for falling in love. What is it about a boy needing a girl that seems to round out his character, while a girl needing a boy can be dismissed as pathetic?

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

It becomes difficult for a woman to become part of a lobby without eyebrows being raised. Even if she has proved herself with sheer stint of hard work, it will still be difficult for her to be accepted.

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

Because of the pro-innovation bias, we know much more (1) about the diffusion of rapidly spreading innovations than about the diffusion of slowly diffusing innovations, (2) about adoption than about rejection, and (3) about continued use than about discontinuance

Anthony Patch had ceased to be an individual of mental adventure, of curiosity, and had become an individual of bias and prejudice, with a longing to be emotionally undisturbed.

When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.