> help to explain seemingly unrelated differences among groups of individuals
I always try to be sceptical of explaining behaviours by certain traits of people because it feels like sooner or later you’re gonna assume things about people which are moreso leaning on the trait than on the person and I think that’s a slippery slope.
I wonder if other people feel like this too sometimes and how they deal with it
If you’re discussing large groups of people, you have to somehow compress the data. On the other hand, yeah, you probably shouldn’t prefer things like this to explain your neighbor/friend/in-laws over personal interactions with them.
I always try to be sceptical of explaining behaviours by certain traits of people because it feels like sooner or later you’re gonna assume things about people which are moreso leaning on the trait than on the person and I think that’s a slippery slope.
I wonder if other people feel like this too sometimes and how they deal with it