Quotes About Bias

They began by controlling books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures, there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.

Wenn man nicht will, dass ein Mensch politisch unglücklich wird, dann lässt man ihn nicht zwei Seiten einer Angelegenheit in Betracht ziehen, sondern nur eine. Oder noch besser, gar keine.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a questions to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war.

Distortion of view takes place when we hold so deeply to our viewpoint that not even known facts can sway our beliefs.

It is well known, that when one side only of a story is heard, and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it, insensibly.

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

History is written by the victors.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.

The deepest of all the stereotypes is the human stereotype which imputes human nature to inanimate or collective things.

By putting the dead Germans in the focus of the picture, and by omitting to mention the French dead, a very special view of the battle was built up. It was a view designed to neutralize the effects of German territorial advances and the impression of power which the persistence of the offensive was making.

White criminals commit the biggest crimes. A brother might rob a bank. A white man will rob a pension fund. The brother is going to get ten to fifteen years because he had a gun. The white guy will get a congressional hearing because he had a job and a nice suit.

If you see a white man running, you think "He must be late for a meeting." When you see a black man running, you think, "I'm calling the cops. Hey, somebody stop his black ass!"

white criminals commit the biggest crimes.a brother might rob a bank. a white man will rob a pension fund. the brother is going to get ten to fifteen years because he had a gun. the white guy is going to get a congressional hearing because he had a job and a nice suit.

Unfortunately, it is also true that the age's interests often color the past with unhistoric hues.

Tenemos tantas ganas de odiar a alguien, de asignarle una culpa e imponerle un castigo, que lo vemos a la peor luz posible, y le imponemos los peores rasgos.

I can't believe you said that about fire ants and thunderstorms! You are such a Houstonist!

Intuitive predictions need to be corrected because they are not regressive and therefore are biased.

Bias and noise—systematic deviation and random scatter—are different components of error.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

our mind is strongly biased toward causal explanations and does not deal well with "mere statistics.