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
"My boss told me to have a good day... so I went home."
"Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything."
"I was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger... then it hit me."
"I used to be addicted to the…
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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...