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The more academic paper I linked to (by the author being discussed in this article) suggests that people use stereotypes a lot like a Bayesian prior. Once they
by yummyfajitas 11y ago
The more academic paper I linked to (by the author being discussed in this article) suggests that people use stereotypes a lot like a Bayesian prior. Once they have knowledge about a specific individual, that knowledge usually drowns out the stereotype.
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jussim/unbearable%20accuracy%20of%20stereotypes.pdf http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jussim/unbearable%20accuracy%20o...
- gleb 11y agoThe part that I found particularly interesting is towards the end of this article. That using stereotypes [as priors] makes people more accurate. And ignoring stereotypes makes people less accurate.