Some people believe that negative stereotypes only pertain to certain people and certain cultures. However, based on the results of a survey the victims of stereotypes all differed. Some differed in grade and gender while others differed in race and social community. Stereotypes affect everyone and most often in a negative way. In “How a Self-fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Down performance” by Shankar Vedantam, it is written that, “Reminding women about their gender or telling them that men generally outperform women on math tests in variably depresses the women’s score.” as well as,”Similarly, telling test-takers that people of Asian decent score better than other students depresses the performance of white men.” The difference in the test-takers
