A twitter thread summary of this paper on the accuracy of stereotypes, which I read so you don't have to: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2016-jussim.pdf …
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They say the age stereotypes were consistent across culture and country. Studies are conflicted and spotty but show a trend that people are really bad at stereotyping on the national level, especially when self-stereotyping (e.g., Italians' stereotypes about Italians')
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Political stereotypes tend to be accurate but exaggerated, and one study finds activists to tend to exaggerate their stereotypes even more. The difference in exaggerated stereotypes between repubs. and democs. is... stereotypical; the right exaggerates the left's stances on-
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crime prevention and military, and the left exaggerates the right's stances on public education and inequality, to the extent that they hit the 'inaccurate' threshhold. Also, people consistently seem to believe other people hold more exaggerated stereotypes than they actually do.
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They say stereotype accuracy is one of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social psychology, and compare it as stronger than other, more famous and relied-upon research. (e.g., attribution errors).
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Ok I got bored; skimming through the rest it seems to be mostly repetitive and discusses various pros and cons to existing studies. If you have any questions you can go read this yourself; they're moderately detailed about all the claims I listed above.
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