215 quotes found
“Even though the Judge would charge the jury that they should listen to all the evidence before they made up their minds, the chances were likely that 100% of them will have already decided if Willi...”
“Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias.”
“The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans”
“This book is dedicated to Israel's constructive and nuanced critics, whose rational voices are too often drowned out by the exaggerations, demonizations, and hate-filled lies put forth by Israel's ...”
“We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.”
“While most people love certain species to pieces (e.g. cats and dogs), others are more loved in pieces (e.g. cows and pigs)”
“All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.”
“Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhance...”
“How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?”
“(Everyone, I guess, sees their position as the neutral one and everyone else's position as biassed. I wonder why 177 minutes of the Today programme is completely secular; you feel horribly excluded...”
“Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be objective, it's a lie: they want to be objects, so as not to suffer.”
“Beside him Mr. Harris folded his morning newspaper and held it out to Claude."Seen this yet?""No.""Don't read it," Mr. Harris said, folding the paper once more and sliding it under his rear. "It wi...”
“What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict.”
“We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influencedand sometimes stronglyby our personal bias; and we...”
“When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom,' we make a mockery of human rights.”
“It is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Ou...”
“By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious thought) and further demonstrating that all knowledge i...”
“The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lea...”
“Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.”
“A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.”
