Quotes About Bias

Men and women often judge what they don't really know.

There's no way the thing would have been so completely smothered if the victims hadn't been a nigger and a Jap. Well, there might be nothing he could to do for them, but at least he could prevent Monique's little brother from swinging in the breeze.

Publication bias is the tendency to not publish "negative," or nonconfirmatory, results.

WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) samples make up most nonclinical neuroimaging studies as well.

Our brains trick us into thinking that we have Moral Truth on our side when in fact we don't, and blind us to important truths that our brains were not designed to appreciate.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

They looked to Ferrier like they ate bad food to match their bad taste in clothes and wheels. The

bigotry to consist in stubborn and unjustified animus toward people, typically (though not always) in the context of a larger system of subordination.

She is but a woman and many unsound and dangerous principles are held by her.

For many years it had been claimed that the average achievement by pupils in some South-East Asian countries was significantly higher than in the United Kingdom. Then it came to light that the weakest pupils in that country were removed from the total who were evaluated at an earlier stage in the educational process. Clearly, the effect of their removal is to skew the average attainments to be higher than they would otherwise be.

A few decades back one could get a pretty good idea of someone's overall political stance by finding out how much he hates rich people; the equivalent today is finding out how much he hates white people.

The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias

An earlier image in which Theoklia and Paul were equally authoritative apostolic figures has been replaced by one in which the male is apostolic and authoritative and the female is blinded and silenced.

I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

Propaganda is aimed mainly at Bernays's potential corporate clientele. And yet the author variously masks that plutocratic bias.

It is axiomatic that men who know little are often intolerant of a point of view that is contrary to their own.

All things being equal (fortunately things are seldom equal, not exactly), people prefer to be with others who look like them, speak the same dialect, and hold the same beliefs. An amplification of this evidently inborn predisposition leads with frightening ease to racism and religious bigotry. Then, also with frightening ease, good people do bad things. I know this truth from experience, having grown up in the Deep South during the 1930s

People are prone to ethnocentrism. It is an uncomfortable fact that even when given a guilt-free choice, individuals prefer the company of others of the same race, nation, clan, and religion. They

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.