and you would be right. Say I have a broken phone which is an Android. A prejudice would be that androids are likely to break. Mathematically we could represent as
Even worse, what actually happens with prejudice is that if I think that Androids are shitty phones, when I see a broken Android, I add it to my collection of “Shitty Android” data points.
But when my iPhone breaks, I take it into Apple for service and add it to my collection of “Apple gives great service” data points.
Saying that prejudice is just applied statistics completely mischaracterizes prejudice.
