The Represented Heuristic

Danny Cevallos: We take it for granted, but we're doing it all the time. He says people think in stereotypes and they are incredibly powerful. The fact that someone looks kind of like a job has huge effects on our judgment about whether that person will be good at that job, he says. But there's a bit of a catch-22 in the modern era,Cevallos asks. By focusing on differences, you essentially just continue to rebuild and recreate and magnify the stereotypes, he writes.