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The Martell article “Differences Do Not Matter” highlights the struggles of collecting data for under-represented/discriminated groups. Something that was very crucial in collecting accurate representational data of homosexual men was the defining what a homosexual man is. An example they gave was avoiding misclassifying heterosexuals who have had same sex as gay man, and instead only look into data where individuals had self-identified themselves as gay. This reminds me of something that Michael Somkuti had pointed out in his “Psychohistory” post that spoke about modelers having to be conscious of the type of data and parameters they are using in order to produce sound outputs. I think this perfectly fits with this article and being conscious here is even more important than it would otherwise be, as you are dealing with a sexual identity. Data thus has to be consciously collected because the ramifications on the population that identify with this sexual identity are at stake.