Quotes About Bias

Some people read the Bible as if its passages were Rorschach inkblots. They see what is in their head. In more sophisticated language, they project onto the Bible what they want to see.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. —FRANCIS BACON

You think I'm some inbred trailer-trash hick that watches the Springer show?

Collaborating with someone in your field or with your education background is sometimes good but highly incestuous. Seek advice from those with different opinions, professions, backgrounds, and biases.

Human beings are not nearly as coolly rational as we like to think we are. Having set up comfortable planets of belief, we become resistant to altering them, and develop cognitive biases that prevent us from seeing the world with perfect clarity. We aspire to be perfect Bayesian abductors, impartially reasoning to the best explanation - but most often we take new data and squeeze it to fit with our preconceptions.

One is our tendency to give higher credences to propositions that we want to be true. This can show up at a very personal level, as what's known as self-serving bias:

No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

The media has a tremendous bias and has for a very long time against the Republican party and against somebody that happens to be conservative. They certainly have a tremendous bias against me.

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.

Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind—politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

all democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it

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

I have no special regard for Satan; but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may even be that I lean a little his way, on account of his not having a fair show. All religions issue bibles against him, and say the most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side.

Stigma" is a dressed-up word for ignorance and prejudice.

It's also worthy of mention that every pattern has at least one small bias, and one day it will tip itself over or fall from one page to another.

There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.

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

No data yet, he answered. It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

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

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