I'm old enough to have worked on dealing with the old stereotypes, but in the age of internet I struggle to not embrace new ones.
It may have something to do with the Medium algorithms, but getting the same things over and over from people who share a demographic or tribal membership is the building block of stereotypes.
I'm old enough to have worked on dealing with the old stereotypes, but in the age of internet I struggle to not embrace new ones.
It may have something to do with the Medium algorithms, but getting the same things over and over from people who share a demographic or tribal membership is the building block of stereotypes.
Thus the "typical x-people response" stereotype is a new one to resist. I'm glad you wrote this one to think about.
"It may have something to do with the Medium algorithms, but getting the same things over and over from people who share a demographic or tribal membership is the building block of stereotypes."
So true. I'm constantly having to fight this bias "availability bias" myself. I followed a bunch of trans writers when I started writing about trans issues, and now Medium has decided that all I ever want to read is stories about trans issues. And sadly, on Medium, a lot of them are written by raging narcissists.
I have to constantly remind myself that these people don't represent the majority.
Medium has deteriorated shockingly. The software articles are just astonishing, not only in what they choose for publication but even what they recommend in the daily digest; the most obvious suggestions imaginable and even a lot of spectacularly bad ones.
When someone thinks he's made an incisive point with "think outside the box" he should not be in print.
I'm old enough to have worked on dealing with the old stereotypes, but in the age of internet I struggle to not embrace new ones.
It may have something to do with the Medium algorithms, but getting the same things over and over from people who share a demographic or tribal membership is the building block of stereotypes.
Thus the "typical x-people response" stereotype is a new one to resist. I'm glad you wrote this one to think about.
"It may have something to do with the Medium algorithms, but getting the same things over and over from people who share a demographic or tribal membership is the building block of stereotypes."
So true. I'm constantly having to fight this bias "availability bias" myself. I followed a bunch of trans writers when I started writing about trans issues, and now Medium has decided that all I ever want to read is stories about trans issues. And sadly, on Medium, a lot of them are written by raging narcissists.
I have to constantly remind myself that these people don't represent the majority.
Medium has deteriorated shockingly. The software articles are just astonishing, not only in what they choose for publication but even what they recommend in the daily digest; the most obvious suggestions imaginable and even a lot of spectacularly bad ones.
When someone thinks he's made an incisive point with "think outside the box" he should not be in print.