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Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.
Jo Brand / Actress
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Editorial
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We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.
Nicholas Kristof /
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Corruption
Crash
Disaster
Planes
Scandal
Selection
Report
Cover
Dysfunctional
Journalists
Reflects
Refugees
Syrian
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The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace.
Marvin Ammori /
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Banned
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Fcc
Innovation
Makers
Providers
Service Providers
Decisions
Choice
Classes
Competitive
Good Reason
Interferes
Namely
Network
Service
Toward
User
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I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.
Mark Mckinnon / Advisor
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Organization
Profit
Special
Thinking
Viewers
Yeah
Communicating
Readers
Special Interest
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Most people have a kind of survivor bias about luck. When something wonderful happens - when preparation meets opportunity, with excellent results - we think: 'How lucky!' But we don't usually acknowledge all the times when things just... fizzle out. All the times when preparation comes to nothing.
Marc Randolph /
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Luck
Lucky
Preparation
Survivor
Wonderful
Opportunity Preparation Luck
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For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.
Benjamin Watson / American Football Tight End
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Prejudice
Race
Situation
Understanding
Sees
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We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change.
David Oyelowo / Actor
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Bias
Deny
Difficult
Difficult Things
Matter
Position
Subject Matter
Around
Cultural
Wrong
Got
Places
Racial
Subconsciously
Unless
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If you look at your companies, and half of your staff are not female, and a decent percentage of them are not people of color, then you are part of the problem because you need people working for you and you need people in positions of leadership who can exercise their bias and who can exercise their perspective.
David Oyelowo / Actor
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Color
Decent
Exercise
Female
Perspective
Staff
Companies
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I like CrossFit. I agree with a lot of their coaching tips and the foundation of functional movements and hard work. They embody all that stuff. But I also think there's a bit of a cult following within the CrossFit community, a bit of a fraternity, which obviously creates a bias and a little bit of a tunnel vision.
Roman Reigns / Professional Wrestler
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Cult
Following
Foundation
Hard Work
Tunnel Vision
Tips
Functional
Creates
Embody
Movements
Tunnel
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'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!
Aasif Mandvi / Actor
Smile
Uncles
Bias
Providing
Satire
Family Hope People
Assumptions
Balm
Broad
Crack
Experiencing
Expose
Muslim
Muslims
Realities
Reconsider
Using
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For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional American anti-Catholicism, John F. Kennedy gave a speech during the 1960 presidential campaign declaring his private religion irrelevant to his qualifications for public office.
Noah Feldman / Author
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Bias
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Irrelevant
Office
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Public Office
Qualifications
Romney
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Traditional
Boils
Campaign
Complex
Public
Facing
Gave
Go Away
John
Mitt
Mitt Romney
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In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we all are. Because that conflicts with their identity as good people, they suppress it and are even more in denial about it. They are even more likely to erupt in defensiveness if it gets called out.
Robin Diangelo /
Abhorrent
Bias
Conditioning
Denial
Filled
Good People
Racism
Conflicts
Erupt
Good Good People People
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
Ta-Nehisi Coates / Writer
America
Bias
Color
Concentration
Country
Effects
Injured
Isolation
Might
Particular
Poverty
Segregation
Skin Color
Spread
Across
Skin
Disadvantage
Instead
Robbed
Toward
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The reflex of police officers, when making the decision whether to use force and on what scale, must not be a result of instinctive bias, but on objective and discernible factors. As the enforcers of law and order, they have to adhere to the letter of the law and minimize the taints of biases and life long social conditioning.
Letitia James /
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Officers
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Exposed in the relentless Palin attacks is not just political bias but unmitigated class bias. The American mainstream media in its current free-fall is begging for more comeuppance when it continues to berate the values and lifestyles of the folks in flyover country who, in simpler times, used to be considered valued customers.
Andrew Breitbart / Publisher
Begging
Bias
Customers
Exposed
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Mainstream Media
Palin
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When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
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Defining
Denied
Equal
Equal Protection
Exclusion
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Legislation
Politician
Pragmatic
Protection
Reform
Sacrifice
Unfairness
Admit
Attack
Gays
Insure
Policies
Solely
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The attacks of September 11 were made possible, in part, by the fact that U.S. law enforcement had a bias that 'rich Saudis are safe Arabs.' Al Qaeda understood that bias and relied on it to operate freely in the United States for years, even when the terrorists were engaged in activities that the authorities considered suspicious.
Malcolm Nance /
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Law Enforcement
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Suspicious
Activities
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Arabs
Attacks
Authorities
Freely
Operate
Qaeda
Saudi
Terrorists
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Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth ignoring because they came up with answers that didn't fit their politically desired answer. Often, they proclaim experts have a liberal bias. Of course, plenty of Democrats have voted for conservative ideas, but that is beside the point.
Kurt Eichenwald / Editor
Bias
Experts
Incompetent
Scorned
Beside
Conservatives
Democrats
Desired
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Liberal
Proclaim
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Those of us in law enforcement must redouble our efforts to resist bias and prejudice. We must better understand the people we serve and protect - by trying to know, deep in our gut, what it feels like to be a law-abiding young black man walking on the street and encountering law enforcement. We must understand how that young man may see us.
James Comey /
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Enforcement
Feels
Law Enforcement
Prejudice
Protect
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Young Man
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Street
Gut
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Serve
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I remember after that, when it was announced I was going to the Heisman ceremony, I didn't think I was going to win it because everybody was saying there was a bias against West Coast teams. I really hadn't paid attention to it. Winning the Heisman wasn't really a goal when I was younger. My goal was to go to USC and win a national championship.
Carson Palmer / Football Player
Bias
Ceremony
Championship
Usc
West Coast
Announced
National Championship
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I think most people aren't really privy to how stories are developed and what stories are - make it to the front page or to the mainstream media, whether it's in print or in broadcast. And I think they'd be shocked and disappointed to see some of the bias that exists in some of the stories that don't get told - or the manner in which they are told.
Sean Spicer /
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Disappointed
Mainstream Media
Print
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People See Media
Broadcast
People Media See
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