Biases Quotes
50 Biases quotes by 43 unique authors
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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
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One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.
— Daniel Kahneman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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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
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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
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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
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Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.
— John McWhorter
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
— Unknown Author
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Celebrate your own biases, they are probably brilliantly messy.
— Alastair Arnott
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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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