system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If a stereotype is statistically true is it still a stereotype?

I mean in the commonly used sense of the word, I know the exact definition refers more to personal mental stereotypes that people accumulate. I'm referring to the "common knowledge" stereotypes of which there are many.

Im not going to include examples so as to not bias any potential answers.
gpt
This depends on how you define stereotype.  Some social psychologists may define it as "a fixed, over generalized belief about a particular group or class of people." 

Stereotypes seek to oversimplify someone's qualities and reduce their humanity to a few correlations in identity and behavior.  Regardless of whether or not the data supports a strong statistic correlation, it still reduces a person to a set of actions based on impression and judgment; thus, retaining its status as a "stereotype."