Stereotypes are endemic throughout all recorded history, and are a necessary pro

Stereotypes are endemic throughout all recorded history, and are a necessary property of predictive discrimination. And it’s empirical since it must survive daily observation at population scale. This is why stereotypes are the most accurate measure in social science. The problem becomes when, not predicting probability of group or individual behavior, but when attempting to cooperate with an individual under the presumption. In other words, stereotypes are an accurate description of a class of people, but a class of people consists of a distribution, and as such we can judge a class by the properties of its individuals but cannot judge an individual by the properties of their class.