Another article in this line is "The Unbearable Accuracy of Stereotypes".<p><a href="http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jussim/unbearable%20accuracy%20of%20stereotypes.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jussim/unbearable%20accuracy%20o...</a><p>Basically social scientists like to treat the usage of ethnic and gender stereotypes as evidence of stupidity and bad decisionmaking, but they never bothered to check whether stereotypes were actually incorrect.