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The inclination to make categorical judgments—along with a person's comfort in making them—can have important implications. For one thing, it influences the types of professions people pursue, especially for jobs that require decisions to be made frequently and without hesitation.
倾向,使分类judgments-along与一个人的安慰使使得具有重要意义。首先,它影响类型的职业追求的人,特别是对于工作需要经常和毫不犹豫地决定。
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Emergency medical workers—such as paramedics (护理人员) and emergency room doctors—need to look at a set of symptoms and diagnose a patient with a particular medical condition. Judges have to make decisions about the legality of evidence, testimony, objections raised, etc., throughout a trial. Managers and CEOs must be comfortable making definitive judgments over and over. All of these professions are heavily male-dominated, by about 2:1 in the US. Of course, there are many reasons for gender imbalances in occupations like these, and one might be the prospect of making all these decisions. At the same time, though, women's more nuanced views are probably an asset in many settings, particularly when there is time to deliberate.
作为医护人员紧急医疗这样的工人(护理人员)和急诊室医生要看一组症状和诊断患者特定的医疗条件。法官对证据的合法性做出决定,证词,反对,等等,在审判。经理和首席执行官必须舒适做出明确的判断。所有这些职业都是男性居多,在美国约2:1。当然,也有许多这样的职业,性别失衡的原因和一个可能的前景做出这些决定。同时,女性更微妙的观点可能是资产在许多地方,尤其是当有时间经过深思熟虑的。
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Let's consider a second way to understand the gender difference in categorization. For this, imagine a simple study. People are shown three objects (e.g. , seagull, squirrel, and tree) and asked to select the two they think should be grouped together. That is, they pick whichever two of the three things that seem to \together\(These instructions are deliberately vague; nothing is mentioned about categorizing.) The study shows that people who c