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Bill Silvia (they/he)
@socialcategories.bsky.social
Social psychology doctoral student at UIUC in the Conformity, Attitudes, Threat, and Stereotypes (CATS) Lab. I research social categorization and stereotypes.
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Off the top, "average" might cause people to think more about an amalgamation of the extremes (outliers), while "typical" does not. That might only apply to people who have taken a stats course, though!

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Bill Silvia (they/he)
@socialcategories.bsky.social
Social psychology doctoral student at UIUC in the Conformity, Attitudes, Threat, and Stereotypes (CATS) Lab. I research social categorization and stereotypes.
35 followers45 following21 posts