Quotes About Bias

In an old war, everybody has an ax to grind.

human beings commonly imagine patterns (whether good or bad) where really there are none.

Eleanor Bratton, without question, would have been treated completely differently depending on where she went, who she saw, or even just when she saw me

decisions perhaps influenced by money, professional bias (for example, surgeons tend to favor surgery), and personal idiosyncrasy.

knew I was letting myself be swayed by a single, recent, anecdotal case.

It is affected by the order in which information is presented and how problems are framed.

When a woman thinks alone, she thinks evil.

her history written by her enemies

Everybody judges from the point of view of his own inadequacy.

Sa come dice la regola giornalistica: se due persone dicono di litigare per le proprie idee, sembrerà che abbiano davvero delle idee.

Categories are how we make sense of the world and communicate our ideas to others. But we are such categorization machines that we often see categories where none exist. That warps our view of the world and our decision-making suffers.

We favor associations that are familiar. We have a bias for new knowledge that readily maps to existing knowledge; things that fit with our expectations and biases don't challenge us to accommodate new information.

For the rest of the school year, the teachers treated me different and gave me better grades even though I didn't get any smarter.

Fox News gives you both sides of every story: the President's side, and the Vice President's side.

How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?

It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you

If you make an assumption, we're in a world of confirmation bias, and clarity is the first casualty.

Slaves, women, and foreigners were all essentially the same to ancient men—contemptible. They were all other.

Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science, at its best, interposes human judgement and ingenuity upon all proceedings. It is, after all (although we sometimes forget it), practiced by humans.

It's easy—too easy—to either disbelieve or disregard someone you dislike.

When it comes to the past, we all stack the deck.

You know what, kid? It's guys like you who give reading a bad name.

Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI)

People assume any twentieth-century white male writer must be an alcoholic.