Bias Quotes - Page 14

• Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.

  Jon Ronson

  Confirmation, Seeing

  "WATCH: The Story of a Man Who Faked Insanity" by Jon Ronson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

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• Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press, knows that on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

  Jo Brand

  Reading, Political, Use

  "'Cold' nurses are an easy target - blame rotten NHS management" by Jo Brand, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

  Martha Beck

  Jobs, Thinking, Nuts

  "Secret to finding unexpected miracles" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. November 30, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Stossel

  Littles, Authority, Should

  "John Stossel's Beef With the Government Regulating Drugs". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2010.

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• True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.

  George Whitefield

  Law, People, Soul

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.369

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• We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Judging, Desire

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• The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait until you believe you are safe, sure to be without occasional foolish feelings, you've most likely waited too long.

  Tom Peters

  Believe, Long, Waiting

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• It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Thinking, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.82

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• Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

  Steven Weinberg

  Evolution, Excitement, Natural

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.175, Harvard University Press

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• It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.

  Yagyu Munenori

  Art, War, Thinking

  "The Japanese Art of War". Book by by Thomas Cleary, 1991.

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• There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Running, Prejudice, Fields

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