Quotes About Bias

Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish. Women know too much, they can neither be deceived nor trusted.

Women do not usually write novels of the type favoured by men but men are known to write novels of the type favoured by women. Some people find this odd.

Overall, people are about twice as likely to seek information that supports their own point of view as they are to consider an opposing idea.19

Because it takes less brain power to believe than to doubt, we are, when tired or distracted, gullible.25 Because we are all biased, and biases are quick and effortless, exhaustion makes us favor the information we know and are comfortable with. We're too tired to do the heavier lifting of examining new or contradictory information, so we fall back on our biases, the opinions and the people we already trust.

It's a truism that love is blind; what's less obvious is just how much evidence it can ignore.

Technology is not neutral.

One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time there is a dispute: they are actually committed to one side.

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.

You would have us encourage our sons to prove all things by their own experience, while our daughters must not even profit by the experience of others.

It's obvious that Mummy would stick up for Margot; she and Margot always do back each other up... He doesn't notice that he treats Margot differently from me.

you can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.)

Have you noticed how one condemns most self-righteously that which one has never had the opportunity to do?

It is not necessarily what is but what is perceived that society will judge.

Sometimes we are blinded by the translation we want to be true, and not the one that is correct.

All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity. You

You're still yourself on the inside, Shay. But when you're pretty, people pay more attention." "Not everyone thinks that way.

most of the available material on female pollution has been gathered by men from other men

No one has a transparent view of the world. In fact, we all carry around a personal worldview—the biases and experiences and expectations that color the way we perceive the world.

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Judec?m totul, iar oamenii ne judec? la rândul lor. Adeseori, aceste judec??i sunt subiective, incorecte È™i ineficiente, dar negarea lor nu le face s? dispar?.

The book didn't generate anything. All it did was give people a chance to express the biases they had before they even opened the book.

for each age interprets the past in the light of its own biases.

Men always think God favors their cause. I am sure Ya'q?b of Aleppo never doubted it, either.