Quotes About Bias

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

Women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men. They're less intellectual than men.

Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.

My favorite thing to do is rip the covers off a script when reading for writers to hire and make everybody read without names on the covers of the script. I can't tell you how many times my writers, women and men, will pick people of color and women much more often than they would with a cover on the script.

I am the columnist who plays the would-this-happen-to-a-white-guy game because there are just too many double standards. But I'm equal opportunity with the game, including Hispanics, Asians, women and men.

As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.

Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

Black boys always fancy a mixed-race girl. That's my theory anyway.

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.

I don't think every offensive comment is racism. But when I see real prejudice I have to call it out.

People think 'big data' avoids the problem of discrimination because you are dealing with big data sets, but, in fact, big data is being used for more and more precise forms of discrimination - a form of data redlining.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.