Quotes About Bias

There are some men who will always prefer to deal with another man, any man, rather than a woman ... I can see him struggling to place me: I'm not married to him, clearly I'm not his mother, I didn't go to school with his sister and I'm sure as hell not going to go to bed with him. So what, he must be asking himself as he chews on his pigeon, is this girl doing here? What is she for?

Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

Preference, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

The sad truth is that pretty people can slide through all kinds of scrapes that'd end very badly for the ugly.

It's a newsbill. They tell you what's happening.' Orso thought about that. 'Or they tell you what to think about what's happening.' He thought more. 'Or the really successful ones just confirm what you already think about what's happening.

Probably been sure he'd got the right god, the right king, the right cause. Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all.

When people are fixed on hatred they do not discriminate.

A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling the reader. Balance should not be a smokescreen for laziness.

Political bias is less insidious in modern media than economic bias— in which news is just another kind of marketing, as packaged and focus-group tested as politics and music and dish soap.

Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

This is called "publication bias."7 Of all the studies drug companies carry out, 40 percent are never released to the public, and lots more are only released selectively, with any negative findings left on the cutting room floor.

The 1993 National Household Survey10 on Drug Abuse found that 19 percent of drug dealers were African American, but they made up 64 percent of the arrests for it.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.

Over 80% of the media can't stand Donald Trump in the US. I've never seen a more biased media in my entire life, except Rob Ford. But outside of that I have not seen a more biased media.

Life is a little different from what you would read in the mainstream media inside the White House.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

It's not objective. It's subjective." Katya hooks her bra behind her back. "It's just what you think, not the truth.

Why will men have theories about women? I haven't any about men.

To show actual avoidance of dissonant information, it is necessary to make comparisons against a neutral baseline.

Why does this not occur routinely? Don't we all know how to ask questions? Of course we think we know how to ask, but we fail to notice how often even our questions are just another form of telling—rhetorical or just testing whether what we think is right. We are biased toward telling instead of asking because we live in a pragmatic, problem-solving culture in which knowing things and telling others what we know is valued.