Stereotype bias is accurate

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QuoteAlthough not all stereotypes are accurate, stereotype accuracy is
one of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social psychol-
ogy (Jussim, Crawford, Anglin, Chambers, et al., 2016; Jussim, Craw-
ford, & Rubinstein, 2015). This conclusion is doubly striking. First, it
flies in the face of 100 years of claims that stereotypes are inaccurate
(Jussim, 2012). Second, social psychology is in the midst of a "rep-
lication crisis" (Aarts et al., 2015), so one might think that social
psychologists would be touting one of their most powerful, most
replicable findings. But if one did think that, one could not be more
wrong. Although there are exceptions (e.g., Hall & Goh, 2017; Ryan,
2003), this evidence remains largely ignored or, when acknowledged,
dismissed as "unimportant" (see Jussim et al., 2015, for a review of
sources making this claim; see Table 1).

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-63180-001.pdf