Given a thimbleful of facts
we rush to make generalizations
as large as a tub.
Gordon W. Allport
20th-Century U.S. Psychologist and Educator
A disheartening video filmed in downtown San Francisco shows how troves of homeless drug abusers have turned the streets into open-air drug markets, with intoxicated users congregating in large groups appearing to resembleā¦
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Its so true....
...we habitually construct all sorts of scenarios and generalisations in our heads about people and how people looked that morning or their facial expression or that they did or did not say something ...and we believe we know now and we begin to construct something about that person and peddle our opinion it as if it was fact...