No One Is an Asterisk
“We are a small population of people because of genocide. No other reason. If you eliminate us in the data, we don’t exist. We don’t exist for the allocation of resources”. – Abigail Echo-Hawk, Pawnee, Director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and Chief...
Yes! You CAN Average Averages
So, you’ve heard that you should never average averages. The person who told you this “rule” was probably well-intentioned; someone who didn’t want you to make a mistake by taking an average of averages without understanding the implications of doing so....
What is a Research Question?
Here at We All Count, we spend a lot of time talking about research questions. Step 3 of the Data Equity Framework is Project Design, and that’s where you want to embed equity while crafting your research question(s), but in order to that, you need to know what a...
Algorithms Don’t Do Anything
The pandemic disruption created a problem for the UK education system: how to move students forward without being able to run their typical exams and tests. In response to this, testers designed an algorithm they would use to assign probable scores instead. It worked...