"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."
— Prejudice

January 1, 1970

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Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922), Ch. X: "The Detection of Stereotypes", p. 151.