501 Quotes About Bias

It always matters who the storyteller is. It’s a lens.

Data can bear on policy issues, but many of our opinions about policy are grounded in premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data.

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.

Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens.

As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.

Illusion of transparency: We always know what we mean by our words, and so we expect others to know it too. Reading our own writing, the intended interpretation falls easily into place, guided by our knowledge of what we really meant. It’s hard to empathize with someone who must interpret blindly, guided only by the words.Be not too quick to blame those who misunderstand your perfectly clear sentences, spoken or written. Chances are, your words are more ambiguous than you think.

Most people find it difficult to understand purely verbal concepts. [...] We employ visual and spatial metaphors for a great many everyday expressions [...] We are so visually biased that we call our wisest men visionaries!

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.