Quotes About Bias

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

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

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

She had found that men who were outstandingly handsome were either monumentally stupid or unbearably dull.

Reflection enables us to step back, to see our perspective on a situation as perhaps distorted or blind, at the very least to see if there is argument for preferring our ways, or whether it is just subjective.

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

Everything that men have written about women should be viewed with suspicion, because they are both judge and party,' wrote Poulain de la Barre,11 a little-known seventeenth-century feminist.

And they had the Jews and the Negroes to look down on, more and more. The M.M.'s saw to that. Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

It is of the first importance,' he said, 'not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellant man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

How wrong it is to take the good for bad, purely at random, or take the bad for good.

I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's your life. That's what you learn from day one.

There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

life ain't fair. It's always slightly one sided

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

John Morris says the Lepchas are obsessed with sex. (The Lepchas say John Morris is obsessed with sex.)

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

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To survive, life has to win every day. Death has to win just once. A small error or miscalculation can wipe out all the successes. The negativity bias is adaptive, the term biologists use for a trait that improves the odds of survival for an individual or a group.

Harvard Business Review and a subsequent popular book, The No Asshole Rule. In looking for a scientific justification for the no-asshole rule, he discovered the literature on negativity bias and then focused on it in his own

The presumption that Jesus who had wiped out the ancient bias against women in the common priesthood of the faithful, would reintroduce it in ministerial priesthood defies all logic. The contention that Jesus, who brought worship 'in spirit and in truth' and for whom love and service were the supreme characteristics of his ministry, would then introduce maleness as an essential requirement offends the inner consistency of the Gospel.

The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes.

Prejudice is even stronger in the hearts of men now than in Christ's day.

If something is presented as an accepted truth, alternative ways of thinking do not even come up for consideration.