The Martell article \u201cDifferences Do Not Matter\u201d 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 \u201cPsychohistory\u201d <\/em>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … <\/p>\n

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