Bias Reduction Quotes

Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true

Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias.

People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

We've got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias.

When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.