Quotes About Bias

The only time the press doesn't sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.

When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

I'm discriminated against all the time.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant...' is Emily Dickinson's advice.... I've been struck by how often slant is confused with bias - as though having a point of view, a set of assumptions, or a firmly held opinion is in itself unscrupulous or unfair. And as though neutrality is the mark of fairness or truth.

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

When people feel they know who to blame or to snicker at, they seldom feel the need to know more.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.

These are some of my behavioral problems... P) Hating France

Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever reminds us that "in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis".

Pseudoscience is a very strange thing, because in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. —UPTON SINCLAIR

every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter.

She was an old woman who thought all evil of those she did not know, and all good of those whom she did know....

In judging of them, he judged leniently; the whole bias of his profession had taught him to think that they were more sinned against than sinning, and that the animosity with which they had been pursued was venomous and unjust; but he had not the less regarded their plight as most miserable.

the more sure I am that I'm right, the more likely I will actually be mistaken. My need to be right makes it more likely that I will be wrong! Likewise, the more sure I am that I am mistreated, the more likely I am to miss ways that I am mistreating others myself. My need for justification obscures the truth.

if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress

It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, ---a factor in a problem. - Sherlock Holmes

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.

Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.