The more experience you have of life, the more you learn to distrust stereotypes as a basis for making decisions. The only thing that counts is the real person, not the stereotype. (Stereotypes may be useful in describing mass behavior.)
All that the article is saying is that if you are sensitized to pattern detection, you are vulnerable to pareidolia, the illusory perception of patterns in random phenomena (e.g., a Rorschach blot, or a cloud). Or, in other words, mistaking noise for signal. This is not something to wear as pride.
The more experience you have of life, the more you learn to distrust stereotypes as a basis for making decisions. The only thing that counts is the real person, not the stereotype. (Stereotypes may be useful in describing mass behavior.)
All that the article is saying is that if you are sensitized to pattern detection, you are vulnerable to pareidolia, the illusory perception of patterns in random phenomena (e.g., a Rorschach blot, or a cloud). Or, in other words, mistaking noise for signal. This is not something to wear as pride.