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Another cognitive difference that appears to matter is whether you are a “rule learner…

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A youthful appearance is an indicator of fertility. Good health suggests strong genes. On average, tall people are slightly higher in intelligence. Of course, none of this tells you anything useful about any given individual.

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In Asch’s study: Solomon Asch’s classic study about the pressure to conform to a group was published in Groups, Leadership, and Men, edited by Harold Guetzkow (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Press, 1951). Asch’s chapter, titled “Effects of Group Pressure upon the Modification and Distortion of Judgment,” appears on pages 177–90.

What distinguishes predictive ability is not who the experts are or what they believe, but rather how they think.

One reason it is so prevalent is that it is simply easier to think about people than situations. Later studies found that the tendency to neglect the situation was worse when people were distracted by doing a second task at the same time as they made their judgments. In other words, you are more likely to be blind to other people’s situations when

The results were clear and consistent. Moderates and conservatives were most accurate in their predictions, whether they were pretending to be liberals or conservatives. Liberals were the least accurate, especially those who described themselves as “very liberal.” The biggest errors in the whole study came when liberals answered the Care and Fairne

States with lower inequality had less implicit bias,