Quotes About Bias

If you were a computer and read all the AI articles and extracted out the names that are quoted, I guarantee you that women rarely show up. For every woman who has been quoted about AI technology, there are a hundred more times men were quoted.

It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.

We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

Isn't it blatantly racist to assume blacks can't pass a simple civics exam in the same rates as others?

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Understanding the psychology of changing norms starts from a simple insight: although we may wish to be perfectly rational and impartial, bias is an inescapable part of what it means to be human.

You won't get a rational assessment of a political party from a member, and you won't get a reasoned account of the joys of being 'linked' from somebody who's already 'in.'

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.

The dumber half of the audience - whether they're male or female, and a lot of them are male - for some reason responds very quickly to the feminine voice. How can I put it? They kind of instantly react to the female voice in a positive way quicker than they would the male voice.

We leap to conclusions and remember those conclusions as fact. We react on our own prejudices but don't always recognize them as such.

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

Machine learning is looking for patterns in data. If you start with racist data, you will end up with even more racist models. This is a real problem.

Some of the most destructive forms of racism - like being denied a home loan or being passed on for a job where you are the most qualified candidate - are hard to measure in real time.

The important thing is when you look at areas like physics and you realise that only one in five A-level students is a girl. We know it isn't about aptitude.

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

First and foremost, if you want to be a good writer, you need to be a good eater. You need to be fearless when it comes to eating, you can't show predilections or bias.

When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard.

Google has long been a leftist company.

Oh my gosh, women have it so much harder than men. If you ask me the differences are professional as well as physical.

Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it.