Asian men really do tend to be bad drivers and most news reports about drive-by shootings include the words "black male"...
What people call “stereotypes” are what scientists call “empirical generalizations,” and they are the foundation of scientific theory. That’s what scientists do; they make generalizations. Many stereotypes are empirical generalizations with a statistical basis and thus on average tend to be true. If they are not true, they wouldn’t be stereotypes.
Uh Oh. I don't think you were supposed to point that out. Darn facts! :)
Posted by: James Edgar | July 13, 2009 at 02:32 PM