"This member of X is a bad person" is useful data if X has a dozen members. If X has ten million members, it's useless. Worse than useless.
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So it's easy to "prove" to a human that any particular group of ten million people is evil--particularly in the age of the Internet.
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We discount bad examples in small, high-status groups--exactly where that kind of information is actually relevant and important.
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Applications to current political matters in social media left as an exercise for the reader.
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@St_Rev This can easily be flipped for when groups are sanctified. I see no signs macro, truely employed individuals is really possible. -
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@St_Rev Particularly if groups who consciously or unconsciously discriminate succeed in a feedback loop
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