Sure you may not like stereotypes and judgement and sure they can be wrong but I love them and live by them and you do to
if you see a chair a dog and an apple your mind makes a call, the dog likes playing, the chairs for sitting on and the tomato for eating, you know these things as they are learned behaviours
“For example, comparing perceived gender stereotypes to meta-analytic effect sizes, Janet Swim (1994) found that participants were, “more likely to be accurate or to underestimate gender differences than overestimate them.” Such results have been amply replicated since. According to Lee Jussim (2009) and colleagues at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, “Stereotype accuracy is one of the largest and most replicable effects in social psychology.” Likewise, reviewing the literature, Koenig and Eagly (2014) concluded that, “in fact, stereotypes have been shown to be moderately to highly accurate in relation to the attributes of many commonly observed social groups within cultures.”
Moreover, research findings of stereotype accuracy are compatible with the adjacent (but much less controversial) literature on interpersonal accuracy, an interdisciplinary field probing the accuracy of people's beliefs, perceptions, and judgments of individuals. Communication, personality and social psychology studies have generally shown that people are quite accurate at judging the states and traits of other people.”
