# Stereotypes that you have often found to be true **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 8, 2017, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408 "2017-06-08T01:33:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/61 "2017-06-10T19:42:15Z")
African-American teenagers do seem more prone to challenging authority, or being disruptive, than teenagers of other races. Generally, a thin white woman in her 20s or 30s, with a sour face, will indeed have a cynical disposition. People with hair that is dyed pink or green, are usually liberal. Female university or postgrad students from China, studying abroad in America, will be extremely attuned to fashion, money, TV shows, shopping, and the like. Philadelphia sports fans are rabid and diehard. There is no better city than Philadelphia to be a winning team, and there is no worse city than Philadelphia to be a losing team. One stereotype that I have \*not \*found to be true is that of blondes; IME, blonde people are every bit as smart as everyone else, if not in fact even more so. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/62 "2017-06-10T20:11:23Z")
I’ve found a stereotype among MRA guys, and it’s that they think liberals are being ‘politically correct’ as in disingenuously stating something they don’t _really_ believe. in order to gain something, something… They cannot fathom that people actually hold these views. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/63 "2017-06-10T20:45:51Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Philadelphia sports fans are rabid and diehard. There is no better city than Philadelphia to be a winning team, and there is no worse city than Philadelphia to be a losing team. Or New York, or Boston, or Chicago… ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/64 "2017-06-10T22:07:40Z")
Or Lincoln, Nebraska. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/65 "2017-06-14T16:33:22Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Or New York, or Boston, or Chicago… Naw, they’re tame in comparison… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/66 "2017-06-14T17:13:39Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > I get an overwhelming sense that many want to post what is on their minds to this thread, but can’t out of fear of retribution/getting banned for wording something “incorrectly”. I already posted the only thing I’d think of posting here years ago and didn’t get any flak for it let alone banning. I’m not going to again because I’ve already said it once. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/67 "2017-06-14T18:49:56Z")
I work with a lot of Germans, and I can confirm that they have nearly zero sense of humour. It’s like trying to be funny is a display of weakness or admission of mental illness. Also I smile in most social situations, and I’ve been bluntly asked by a German (with a scowl) that I had _just met_; why was I smiling? Well, fuck you very much, too. Fastest I’ve ever joined someone in a scowl. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/68 "2017-06-15T04:12:00Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > Or Lincoln, Nebraska. The difference is, a Philadelphia fan will curse at (or pour beer on) opposing fans. Nebraska fans are every bit as passionate as Philly fans, except… They’re impossibly nice! ---
**Author:** ![igor\_frankensteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/839c29/32.png) [@igor\_frankensteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/igor_frankensteen)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/69 "2017-06-15T04:25:37Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Aren’t IQ tests recalibrate every year to account for generally increasing intelligence to keep 100 the average? Nope. They are not changed in order to account for changes in INTELLIGENCE, they are adjusted to account for changes in WHAT INTELLIGENT PEOPLE ARE LIKELY TO KNOW. The way they test for intelligence, is by checking to see how much you DO know, relative to how much the average person knows, about the same subjects. They have to be adjusted culturally and regionally as well, in order to be at all reliable, for the same reasons. There is no indication that overall human intelligence has changed measurably over the last few centuries, much less yearly. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/70 "2017-06-15T04:49:43Z")
> [@igor\_frankensteen](#): > > The way they test for intelligence, is by checking to see how much you DO know, relative to how much the average person knows, about the same subjects. Are IQ tests like that? I’ve only taken one pseudo-IQ test back in the 80s, and it was not questions based on knowledge, per se, as much as pattern recognition, mental spatial rotation, and tests like that. There was maybe a part that had to do with language, but most of it was fairly abstract, like, here’s a sequence of numbers, what’s the next one in the sequence. Or, here’s three shapes/figures, what’s the next one in the sequence, and stuff like that. None of it was based at all on actual “Jeopardy!” type knowledge. Is this not how IQ tests are? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/71 "2017-06-15T06:18:17Z")
What \*\*pullykamel \*\*said - a knowledge test is not a true IQ test. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/72 "2017-06-15T14:22:13Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > What \*\*pullykamel \*\*said - a knowledge test is not a true IQ test. It’s not even a \*fake \*IQ test. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/73 "2017-06-15T14:25:36Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Canadians wouldn’t be so rude as to point that out. 😛 I predict a horrid death for this particular thread, and also, Your Mother was a hamster and your Father smells of elderberries! :p:p:p Happy 150th Canada! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/74 "2017-06-15T15:22:32Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Philadelphia sports fans are rabid and diehard. There is no better city than Philadelphia to be a winning team, and there is no worse city than Philadelphia to be a losing team. Maybe I’m misunderstanding “diehard”, but when I was in Philadelphia I was quite confused by the locals’ reaction to their team losing. Complete and utter silence. After weeks of “Eagles, Eagles, rahrahrah” from every newspaper and at work, you would’a thought nobody even could spell ‘Eagles’, much less pronounce it. That’s diehard? More like “my cat died”. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/75 "2017-06-15T17:32:03Z")
I am increasingly fulfilling the absent-minded professor stereotype. Oh, we talked about that last class? My pants are unzipped? Where are my glasses? Did I leave \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ here? Mrs. Shark is Italian and Jewish and she _really_ can’t talk without hand gestures (we’ve done studies – she can keep her hands behind her back for about 15 seconds before she needs “talky hands” to continue the conversation). My border collie meets all of the intensity stereotypes of the breed. I could play fetch with her 19 hours a day and it wouldn’t be enough for her (however, she was politely asked to drop out of sheep herding school because she couldn’t leave the horsies in the next pasture alone. Doggie, there are 25 sheep here for you to stare down, organize, chase, and boss around – WTH?!) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/76 "2017-06-15T18:02:21Z")
Nobody likes lawyer jokes more than lawyers. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/77 "2017-06-15T19:01:22Z")
My wife is Jewish, and the one Jewish stereotype that I hit constantly is: “Well, goodbye, we’re leaving now.” Walk towards the door, still talking. Five minutes later, “Yes, it’s been great, we’re leaving now.” Open the door, still talking. Five minutes later, “Well, so glad we could see you, we’re leaving now.” Walk outside the door and turn around, still talking. Five minutes later, “Yes, so nice to visit.” Walk five feet forward still talking. Five minutes later, “Tell Aunt Petunia how much we miss her, gotta go…” Open the car door, still talking. Five minutes later, “Well, we really have to go now…” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/78 "2017-06-15T21:07:13Z")
> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#): > > I work with a lot of Germans, and I can confirm that they have nearly zero sense of humour. It’s like trying to be funny is a display of weakness or admission of mental illness. > > Also I smile in most social situations, and I’ve been bluntly asked by a German (with a scowl) that I had _just met_; why was I smiling? Well, fuck you very much, too. Fastest I’ve ever joined someone in a scowl. I’m going to temporarily buy into this stereotype just to make myself let go of something I have resented for years. I made a work-appropriate pleasantry/mild joke one morning to a woman who happens to be of German extraction and … nothing. Well, nothing or something verging on looking at me like I had two heads. Bitch, we’re colleagues, a mild smile would have sufficed. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/79 "2017-06-15T21:21:28Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > My wife is Jewish, and the one Jewish stereotype that I hit constantly is: “Well, goodbye, we’re leaving now.” Walk towards the door, still talking. Five minutes later, “Yes, it’s been great, we’re leaving now.” Open the door, still talking. Five minutes later, “Well, so glad we could see you, we’re leaving now.” Walk outside the door and turn around, still talking. Five minutes later, “Yes, so nice to visit.” Walk five feet forward still talking. Five minutes later, “Tell Aunt Petunia how much we miss her, gotta go…” Open the car door, still talking. Five minutes later, “Well, we really have to go now…” My family is Irish Catholic, centered in Philly…and dad calls what you describe"THE POCKETBOOK CEREMONY" and all the women in the family do it.😃 Stereotypes in my family,🙂 not much just a bunch of Irish cops, a few drinkers.:smack:😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/80 "2017-06-15T21:23:03Z")
> [@BobBitchin](#): > > My family is Irish Catholic, centered in Philly…and dad calls what you describe"THE POCKETBOOK CEREMONY" and all the women in the family do it.😃 WOMEN! Amirite, men? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408.md?page=5)