Research Hit: Focus on Outliers Creates Flawed Snap Judgments

From the archives (just transferred to Substack)

You walk into a large crowded room and you automatically scan the crowd to see who’s there. You may notice, for example, that there is a sizeable proportion of women, or asians, or any other identifiable group. You would probably think that the brain has developed to accurately predict these proportions — a survival instinct.

Wrong!