-If categories influence judgement on tasks as simple as _remembering colors_, then on theoretical grounds, I would expect the effect of gender on perception of people to be _much_ worse (that is, larger), because people are much more complicated than colors. With colors, what you see is _basically_ what there is: if your memories or perception of 500-nanometer wavelength light get rounded off slightly bluewards or greenwards depending on how many color words are in your native language, that's kind of bad compared to what a well-designed AI with access to the pure, unmediated colorspace could perceive, but at least that bias is only acting on _one_ dimension. In contrast, your observations of a particular person are going to be much sparser than everything your brain might want to predict about that person, so your priors about what humans are like are going to have to do _more work_—work that relies on the ways ([some blurry](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16173891/), [some unseen](/2020/Apr/peering-through-reverent-fingers/)) that female humans are different from male humans.
+If categories influence judgement on tasks as simple as _remembering colors_, then on theoretical grounds, I would expect the effect of gender on perception of people to be _much_ worse (that is, larger), because people are much more complicated than colors. With colors, what you see is _basically_ what there is: if your memories or perception of 500-nanometer wavelength light get rounded off slightly bluewards or greenwards depending on how many color words are in your native language, that's kind of bad compared to what a well-designed AI with access to the pure, unmediated colorspace could perceive, but at least that bias is only acting on the _one_ dimension of color. In contrast, your observations of a particular person are going to be much sparser than everything your brain might want to predict about that person, so your priors about what humans are like are going to have to do a greater share of the work—work that relies on the ways ([some blurry](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16173891/), [some unseen](/2020/Apr/peering-through-reverent-fingers/)) that female humans are different from male humans.