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> Stereotype accuracy is one of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social psychology https://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-r
by hirundo 5y ago
> Stereotype accuracy is one of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social psychology
https://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-response https://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-re...
Another way to say that, is that bigotries are so difficult to extinguish because they are so often predictive. That is, it may be an adaptive strategy to presume that I am an asshole due to my age and gender, until I demonstrate otherwise.
But "just" does not equal "adaptive".
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- spacemanmatt 5y agoI don't think that conflating stereotypes with bigotry is fair, especially in this context.
- hirundo 5y agoIsn't a bigotry a form of a stereotype? If so it's like conflating apples with fruit.
- spacemanmatt 5y agono
- spacemanmatt 5y agoit's as simple as a category error. those are not the same thing.