re: I'm in law enforcement and I stereotype people all day

Everyone is stereotyped




It's human nature through evolution

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A recent analysis published by Cell Press has found that showing favoritism toward a member of one’s own social group may not be the result of learned behavior, but instead may happen simply out of instinct. While this favoritism may ultimately lead to stereotyping or discrimination, it may have originally facilitated human evolution.

Yarrow Dunham is an assistant professor of Psychology at Yale University and the author of the review.

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“Researchers have found that you can randomly assign someone to a group, and even if they theoretically have no vested interest in that group, they will have persistent favoritism for it, an ingroup bias, across a range of different measures,” said Durham.

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Conclusion: Only the naive libbies try to condemn stereotyping. And if they are walking thru a bad part of town and see a certain individual dressed a certain way, they will either become a hypocrite or an easy target.