We Need to Fill in the Blanks in our Social Identity Data
Everytime I see a stat like “25% of respondents are Black”, I see only one piece of a four-piece puzzle filled in. With only this piece, I don’t know how to use this information. I don’t know if it matches the category from my dataset, I...
How to Support your Data Interpretations
Whenever we attribute meaning to the results of a data project, we are interpreting those results. We’re using what we know about the data, the analysis, the project as a whole and all kinds of preexisting knowledge, opinions and worldviews to say, “ah, if that is the...
Proxy Variables Part 2: Race
This is part 2 of our examination of Proxy Variables, take a look at our introduction to the subject here. So, is race a proxy variable? Should we use race as a proxy variable? In depends. Sometimes. In working we equity in quantitative...
Result or Interpretation?
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