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here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the color pink it really messes [Flamingo's outside caravans]

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with a male flamingos sense of masculinity alright Amy is gorgeous like

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to wear pink and enjoys flower decorating Bob assumes she's bad at math

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what is Bob just done and here the potential answers

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well Bob's assuming Amy is bad at math little

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bit Bob know however that Amy loves creating new shades of pink using [Math beside shades of pink]

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sophisticated hex color-coded equation enjoys decorating flowers and complex

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patterns based on the Fibonacci sequence and it's only gorgeous because she's

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actually an Android is programmed herself to look that way take that Bob [Amy dressed as a robot]

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okay so what is Bob done here well he hasn't shown implicit bias per se

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because we wager that he's very conscious of his assumption and implicit

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biases are defined by the fact that they're entirely subconscious [Man being hypnotized]

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assumptions that inform the way we perceive and understand people and the

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things around us that's quite world we're describing a self-serving biases

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when people tend to attribute positive events to their own character but

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negative events to external factors seeing is how Bob isn't talking about

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himself at all here well this won't fit either so if you ask us Bob should be

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talking about himself a bit more and he should be saying I'm a big dumb doofus [Bob wearing i'm a big dumb doofus t-shirt]

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who thinks the way you dress has anything to do with your mathematical

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ability now archetype is getting closer to what we're after but still not quite

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there an archetype is a union term you'll believe that there are several

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characters or archetypes who are collectively familiar to all of us like

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some other the child the crazy uncle and the trickster all nothing here about the

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mathematically challenged flower lover though prototyping is also both but no [Man smoking cigar]

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Freudian cigar a prototype can be thought of as the best example of

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whatever it is we're talking about if we say head you might think cat well that [Flamingo stood with a dog and cat]

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cat would be your prototypical pet to which all other pets would be compared

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what Bob is really doing here is stereotyping this is the often [Bob working on a radio]

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inaccurate way we judge people they only on their inclusion in with certain

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groups they're a typing follow social categorization in the case of Bob and

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Amy Bob is categorized Amy into a certain group of people before making me [Bob pushing Amy into a basket]

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some and about her weakness in math of course

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English shouldn't feel too bad because she knows she's good at math [Amy roars as a robot]

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