Quotes about Bias

I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one. And

it was just that prejudiced people linked together things they didn't like.

Much that is commonly called sympathy is personal affection. To love them who love us is human bias and inclination; but to love them who do not love us is divine sympathy.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

Thou thinkest as man. In many things thou judgest as human affection persuadeth thee.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

Data has an annoying way of conforming itself to support whatever point of view we want it to support.

Mr. Oscar Browning was a great figure in Cambridge at one time, and used to examine the students at Girton and Newnham. Mr. Oscar Browning was wont to declare "that the impression left on his mind, after looking over any set of examination papers, was that, irrespective of the marks he might give, the best woman was intellectually the inferior of the worst man.

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.

Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.

Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.