Criminals Look Different From Noncriminals

[dearmisterecho]

Yes, once again, you CAN judge a book by its cover

As it turns out, humans possess the ability to tell who's a criminal and who's not simply by looking at them because criminals look different from noncriminals. In this blog, I have repeatedly emphasized the fact that virtually all "stereotypes" are empirically

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[lickety_split]

This article is so bad I'm actually crying from laughing reading it.

[dearmisterecho]

ikr. Can't beat the logic of "Nice people look nice, and nasty people look nasty!"

lol jfc I can't believe I copy pasted that quote and it's not a snarky summation.

[lickety_split]

I know! This shit reads like some snarky, sarcastic-as-fuck response letter one of us wrote to a senator about some bullshit.

[lone_concertina]

That was my favorite part. There's a reason why the most successful criminals are that successful - they look like dads and grandpas (ie everyone on Wall St.)

As for anecdata, I have a baby face and everyone pretty much inherently trusts me because of that, but I can lie like a motherfucking champ.

[sweetemerald513]

"Their results from two experiments consistently show that individuals can tell who is a criminal and who is not, by indicating that they believe the actual criminals have higher probability of being a criminal than actual noncriminals."

wait...what?

And apparently I stink at identifying criminals.

[erinpuff]

In this blog, I have repeatedly emphasized the fact that virtually all "stereotypes" are empirically true. If they weren't true, they would not be stereotypes in the first place.

LOL I CAN'T

I'm giving a paper at a conference this afternoon (aaahhh), and it's about French stereotypes of Spanish people/music in the early 20th century, so I have been doing a lot of reading about this, and uhhhh no. Not that you need to read academic blahblah to know that this is crap, I mean!

[intrikate88]

Good luck with your conference! How exciting!

[brewsternorth]

Brb seeing if I can find a gif of Sherlock dissing a SOCO for "lowering the IQ of the whole street".

[booksforlunch]

Mmmhmmm.
Not gonna do that test, but I take it that these are not the kind of criminals that scam lots'a people to take their life savings, corrupt politicians or cops, not the kind of criminal who doesn't pay his taxes big time, or those that deal drugs not at the corner of the street but on the parties of the rich and the famous.

LOL about their reasoning about women not being able to spot rapists. Could that be because we are hardwired by society/media to look for "that creepy, mouth-breathing" guy on that street corner, but the majority of rapes are perpetrated by people the victim already knows beforehand, like family members, friends or colleagues?

[dearmisterecho]

LOL about their reasoning about women not being able to spot rapists. Could that be because we are hardwired by society/media to look for "that creepy, mouth-breathing" guy on that street corner, but the majority of rapes are perpetrated by people the victim already knows beforehand, like family members, friends or colleagues?

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[nicole_anell]

LOL about their reasoning about women not being able to spot rapists. Could that be because we are hardwired by society/media to look for "that creepy, mouth-breathing" guy on that street corner, but the majority of rapes are perpetrated by people the victim already knows beforehand, like family members, friends or colleagues?
Yeah, just coming here to say this. But no, according to this it's just sneaky rapists "tricking" naive women with their innocent handsome faces! :-/

[txvoodoo]

Seriously, can we put a pic of GWB in there?