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 Is there a name for what I'm going to call Approach 1 and Approach 2 below? An example of Approach 1 is in the screenshots below:

Say you're a white guy and look around and notice that the activities you do are full of other white guys. You then think of some property of the activities that you do, e.g., they're non-conformist and conclude that women and black people don't do non-conformist activities and then google for some random studies that seem to confirm this.

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/071/403/001/023/368/original/95067efaf68d088c.png

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/071/403/269/037/737/original/843120bc87f31209.png

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/071/403/510/583/195/original/3422ff942c117027.png

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/071/403/746/518/133/original/e9ae342461f1e16e.png