content/drafts/stereotypes-models-and-cognition.md

   1 Title: Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
   2 Date: 2020-01-01
   3 Category: commentary
   4 Tags: epistemology
   5 Status: draft
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   7 fine-grained stereotypes
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   9 If someone says of me, "Taylor Saotome-Westlake? Oh, he's a _man_, you know what _they're_ like," I would be offended—I mean, I would if I still believed that getting offended ever helps with anything. (It _never helps_.) I'm _not_ like typical men, I _don't like_ typical men, and I don't want to be confused with them.
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  11 But if someone says, "Taylor Saotome-Westlake? Oh, he's one of those IQ 130, mid-to-low [Conscientiousness and Agreeableness, high Openness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits), left-libertarian autogynephilic American Ashkenazi male computer programmers; you know what _they're_ like," my response is to nod and say, "Yeah, pretty much."