Quotes tagged ‘Bias’

“Men can’t be victims of domestic violence...tell the world Johnny, tell them… I Johnny Depp, a man, I’m a victim too of domestic violence… and see how many people believe or side with you.”

— Amber Heard, sausageroll.com.au

“The idea that poor people will be irresponsible with their money and squander it seems to be a product of deep-seated biases rather than emblematic of the truth.”

— Andrew Yang, amazon.com

“Whose severity excludes every improvement and reintegration of the condemned into society, can never be humanly just.”

— Helmut Richter, amazon.com

“The word 'biased' has become synonymous with 'wrong'. But 'facts' aren't always the answer + there can be bias towards kindness and wisdom.”

— Alain de Botton, twitter.com

“It’s even been said that data mining means torturing the data until it confesses.”

— Pedro Domingos, amazon.com

“From the Fast and the Furious to the disappearance of Flight 470 starring unidentified passengers, 33 gone in northwest Kenya post-civil war violence in Libya, Syria the Iraq insurgency, the insurgency in Ukraine, Pakistan, Nigeria a multitude in Mexico made anonymous in the movies, all of us... ...…”

— Chris Campanioni, amazon.com

“'We were told that if we saw something, a news story that was on the front page of these ten sites, like CNN, the New York Times, and BBC, then we could inject the topic,' said one former curator. 'If it looked like it had enough news sites covering the story, we could inject it—even if it wasn’t na…”

— Michael Nunez, Anonymous Facebook News Curator, gizmodo.com

“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”

— Douglas Adams, goodreads.com

“It's incredible to me how dishonest the media in this country really is. People sometimes forget that the newspapers and television stations are profit-making businesses—or at least they're trying to be. if they had to choose between honest reporting and making a profit, which choice do you think th…”

— Donald Trump, amazon.com