When you tell people these things, they get a little fatalistic about it. They tend to think, ‘Well, I guess there’s not much I can do about that.’ I would call that a bias. It is wrong just as often as it’s likely to be right. We really need to interrogate and deconstruct that assumption. It’s rarely true, and it can lead people to internalise some of these effects in a way that can be pretty damaging and totally unnecessary.