#anyway yea thats the thin silcing rant. yourewelcome

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i am asking about thin slicing i know i want to

another victim of my wizard powers i see

anyway! thin slicing is, to quote wikipedia,

a term used in psychology and philosophy to describe the ability to find patterns in events based only on "thin slices", or narrow windows, of experience. The term refers to the process of making very quick inferences about the state, characteristics or details of an individual or situation with minimal amounts of information.

and in terms of efficacy (again from wikipedia):

Research has found that brief judgments based on thin-slicing are similar to those judgments based on much more information. Judgments based on thin-slicing can be as accurate, or even more so, than judgments based on much more information.

there was a specific study measuring thin slicing in regard to personality abnormalities, and it concluded that people could identify personality disorder after 30 seconds of observation. so...

source: (Friedman, Jacqueline N. W.; Oltmanns, Thomas F.; Turkheimer, Eric (2007-06-01). "Interpersonal perception and personality disorders: Utilization of a thin slice approach". Journal of Research in Personality. 41 (3): 667–688)

...put that together, and it becomes very likely that a lot of people (both in universe and out) identify izaya's antisocial tendencies via thin slicing and are seemingly instinctually repelled from him. he just, gives people "bad vibes" or makes them feel "weird," despite the fact that a lot of the people who say this in-universe are heavily involved with a criminal lifestyle and thus have less moral objections than a random person would

basically people r insta-identifying izaya as a sociopath bc of thin slicing, and not realizing theyre doing it

also disclaimer: YES thin slicing can ABSOLUTELY lead to bigoted beliefs- i.e. if you think gay people are "dangerous," you will begin to feel threatened and uneasy bc of thin slicing picking up on someone being gay and registering it as a threat. im not hailing thin slicing as the be all end all of Knowing How People Are, in fact whats happening to izaya is actually the antethisis of that- the problem is people r feeling uneasy bc of a common stereotype about aspd and thin slicing is applying it to izaya. again yes there r a lot of valid reasons to be uneasy around izaya, hes done a lot of bad things obviously, but a lot of the people exhibiting unease are also people who have done bad things, sometimes arguably just as bad or WORSE than things izaya has done