When people study stereotypes they often make certain distinctions between three levels of stereotypes and this is nicely summarized here.

当人们研究刻板印象时,他们通常会区分,三个层次的刻板印象,这里已经清楚地总结起来了。

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Their answers are often correct and often possessing stereotypes lets us make reasonable and correct generalizations about the world.

他们的答案通常是正确的,通常刻板印象能让我们合理地,正确地归纳世界。

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In order to not act in a stereotyped fashion, we have to consciously push them down, we have to consciously override them, and that's possible, but it takes work.

为了不表现出刻板印象，我们要有意识地压抑它们，我们要有意识地钳制它们，这是有可能的，但需要下功夫。

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And to the extent these portray an unrealistic or unfair or biased perception of the world we could construct stereotypes that are faithful to the data we're getting but the data is not representative.

因为媒体,没有真实，公平，不偏不倚地反映世界,我们的刻板印象,就会根据这些信息来形成,但这些信息并不能以一概全。

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