I have often said: "stereotypes are how the unedcated perform statistical analysis". Cliches, stereotypes, etcetera, are all very useful things, all of them come into existence for *reasons*, and those reasons are usually that they are observably true of the majority of the group in question.
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Date: 2012-07-01 04:45 am (UTC)