Biases Quotes

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 not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects. - Sonia Sotomayor

We acknowledge that we're not getting the full picture, but at least we get close. We acknowledge our biases and try to work past them. - Wren Elhai

There has to be some substantial changes in who the ABA works with within the city. Mr. McShane cannot be objective in this process, he really should be replaced by someone else. If that's not part of the contract, I think the ABA would probably not want to go through this nightmare again that we've had to go through with Mr. McShane. I'm not saying he's incompetent, I'm just saying, like any other human being, he has his likes and his dislikes and his biases, and it's become very evident in this process of controlling the flow of information. - Jeff Murray

The point of 'The View' is to give your view on various issues. There's nobody who has no biases on one side or another. It's my responsibility to put those aside. It has no place on ['Today']. But there's nothing I've ever said that I'm ashamed of. - Meredith Vieira

The existence of biases hurts recruiting. Intentionally overlooking some things just because you want to promote certain kids. - Alan Wallace

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 to cover. - Al Franken

The bias is for U.S. Treasury yields to trade modestly to the downside on risk-aversion shifts and the downside biases on U.S. economic releases this week. - Thomas Lam

Recent FDA actions have created serious doubts about whether committee members are serving only the public interest and, as a result, industry biases now taint many advisory panel decisions... Today we took a giant step forward to squash those doubts. - Maurice Hinchey