Biases Quotes

50 Biases quotes by 43 unique authors

When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals. — Daniel Kahneman
One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking. — Daniel Kahneman
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial… — Robert Genn
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy… — Al Franken
I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story… — Junot Diaz
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were… — Sonia Sotomayor
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance… — Sonia Sotomayor
Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just… — Douglas Rushkoff
If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay… — Douglas Rushkoff
We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an… — Douglas Rushkoff
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and… — Erich Fromm
a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a… — Philip Roth
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are… — Dan Ariely
Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them… — Stefan Molyneux
I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual… — Peter Blair Henry
Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases. — John McWhorter
Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have… — Geoff Mulgan
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are… — Daniel Kahneman
The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other… — John O'Keefe
A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste. — Unknown Author
Celebrate your own biases, they are probably brilliantly messy. — Alastair Arnott
The sense of justice is always overwhelmed by personal interests, biases or prejudices, and there is little room for justice in economic competition, cultural or… — Babloo

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