This is an argument over the definition of a word that is written to look like a carefully researched paper in sociology, psychology, and statistics. The autho

This is an argument over the definition of a word that is written to look like a carefully researched paper in sociology, psychology, and statistics. The authors complain that the word "stereotypes" is used to refer to assumptions about groups that are incorrect (the assumptions are incorrect). They then show that by using an alternate and broader definition of the word stereotypes (to mean assumptions about groups period, rather than flawed assumptions about groups), they find that stereotypes as they define the term are frequently accurate. This analysis is as close to a tautology as you can get while still filling that many pages with prose. This isn't science or sociology or advanced statistics. It's a debate over the definition of a term that is used sloppily in casual language, and a debate that is buried deep in a long paper to make it look like they are doing something more important than arguing about the definition of the word stereotype.