It is not that gender-based generalizations are condemned because they are spurious and therefore only when they are spurious. Rather, in order to compensate for the observed tendencies to overuse gender-based generalizations, we treat the use of gender-based generalizations as wrong even when those generalizations are statistically relevant and thus despite the fact that they are statistically relevant.
-Frederick Schauer: Profiles, Probabilities and Stereotypes p.152
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