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Thank you Scott Stratton. As a scientist I felt like I wanted to comment to the person too - It is sometimes frustrating for us to deal with people who insist for some special reason that their subjective experience is somehow more valid than data and facts that they are being presented with and that the onus of explanation should be on us, But it’s not a very helpful attitude and also there might be others who read or think about the same topic may be more open minded so it’s worth while to engage with the more correct answers, and you explained a lot of the cognitive science. There’s a lot that goes on behind our thoughts and beliefs and perceptions. It’s probabilistic/ Bayesian but without getting too technical, want to say some thing like if we had a bias, conscious or unconscious (which in this case, we do because of what we keep hearing about this car; and by the way these biases usually are found in all genders) and expect more female Miata drivers, the brain would be more likely to sample the environment that way, remember it that way, and sample the environment that way, and remember and indeed If the original expectation/belief is so strong it may only take their brain two or three female drivers to reach that “conclusion.”