Archived How common does a trait have to be to go from stereotype to statistic? (AskVoat)
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Archived How common does a trait have to be to go from stereotype to statistic? (AskVoat)
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[–] TheBuddha ago
My guess would be that it is likely to be a surprisingly low percentage. I don't see any formal studies done, as it isn't a very easy target. We see patterns where it may not actually be statistically significant and we extrapolate from small data sets. We are humans, it's what we do.