We’ve said it before: When you need to know more than just a general average, you need an Equity Gap Score. An average tells you what happened and an Equity Gap Score tells you for who. Each piece of information needs the other to give meaning. If you have a...
Learning #1: Indigenous Quantitative Methods A few months ago I set out to create a research brief of Indigenous Quantitative Methodologies. I wanted to start a survey of just some of the existing ways that Indigenous cultures around the world create knowledge and...
Too often in data science, we use identity categories. We once were hired by clients involved in a youth mental health situation where they needed to target scarce resources (why the resources were scarce is an entirely other conversation for a different...
You’ve heard us say it before: Define your question first, then choose a methodology. Rather than letting your methodology limit your questions, let your research questions drive the project design. For an example of how to reframe research questions and adjust...
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...
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...
