Re: Mathematical modelling of sterotypes?
Not at all. Adherence to tradition is explicitly assuming that our forebears understood things to degrees that we might not. In the US at least, the "cultural revolution" types did not appear to make a serious dent until the 1960s.
“Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father.” -- Chesterton
Biting the hand that feeds IT
