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The Similarity Task on the Description of Tom W
The experiment was first conducted in the early 19 seventies. Tom w was intentionally designed as an anti base rate character, a good fit to small fields and a poor fit to the most populated specialties. Professional stereotypes appear to have changed little in the nearly forty years since i designed the description of tom w. The similarity of an individual to the stereotype of a group is unaffected by the size of the group.