David Berreby, author of "Us and Them," about why people categorize one another, said the TV audience may have also judged her harshly because, in banter with the judges before singing, she appeared to be trying, awkwardly, to fit in.
It's very interesting how competitors like to categorize one another.
Let's not needlessly categorize one another.
If we can stop categorizing one another, maybe... just maybe... we, as a human race will start to focus on the qualities that unite us -- rather than the qualities that set us apart.
One slide included a chart that categorized one to two dozen tribes by location — North Waziristan and South Waziristan, for example — and then gave a brief description of their location, their known or suspected links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban, and their size and military abilities.
For too long good and evil, right and wrong, success and failure, beauty and ugliness have been discretely categorized, one deified, the other reviled.
Tolia et. al categorized one subject as both neonatal hepatitis and TPN associated cholestasis [ 12].
For each pair of eyespots identified as having a shared history, we categorized one eyespot as "ancestral" (the eyespot that evolved first) and the other eyespot as "derived".
The organization said that it had found fewer violations in the presidential election than in the parliamentary race, though it categorized one-third of the polling stations visited as "bad" or "very bad".
Table 1 The categorized one-dimensional quantizers.
For years dermatologists have assessed skin color based on a skin typing system developed by my former mentor known as the Fitzpatrick scale, which categorizes one's skin based on its reactions to sun exposure.
