Articles
- Section 9: The Ethics Code I Break Every Time I Take a Free Quiz
Eleven rules govern how psychological tests may be used. I ran one quiz result I'd happily posted against all of them, and stopped defending myself.
- The Telephone Survey Is Dying: Reading the Task Force Report on What Replaces It
Cell-only households went from 3% to 57% in fifteen years. The profession's own task force says the replacement is unsettled, and is honest about it.
- Informative Speech: The Messy Outline & the Blunder Log
A four-minute speech taught me that a cluttered outline is a design defect you feel on stage — and that my mid-speech corrections were negotiating for clarity.
- Mount Everest: A Case Study in Deference & the Decision Nobody Stopped
Both expedition leaders talked constantly about a turnaround time. Neither ever named one. A rule with no threshold in it cannot be broken, so nobody broke it.
- Normal Is Not the Same as Precise: The Histogram I Misread for Three Years
Simulating 1,000 samples finally made the central limit theorem click — and then showed me I'd spent three years misreading my own histogram.
- Shared Vulnerability: The Model, the Audit & the Studies They Both Point At
Carson cites Andreasen and Jamison as warrant. Schlesinger goes back to those originals. One number sits in both papers, meaning different things.
- The Group Mentoring Agreement: Rules We Wrote Before We Needed Them
A group agreement gets written on day one, while everyone still feels fine. That timing is the whole point, and it's the step most teams skip.
- The Opposing Processes Model Explains Why Competition Helps and Hurts at Once
I wrote that people thrive under competition, then scored full marks on a quiz saying the opposite. Same evening, same student, same model.
- Systems Don't Have Intentions: A Response to the Framework I Kept Resisting
I argued for weeks with a framework that locates harm in structures, not intent. My own class notes contained the diagnostic I refused to run on myself.
- The POP Model: Three Questions & the One I Was Always Skipping
Purpose, Outcomes, Process — asked before you start. A seven-page tool that showed me my agenda was only ever answering the third question.
- Conscious Capitalism as an Acceptance Criterion: Reading the Deck Skeptically
Conscious capitalism sounds unobjectionable until you ask what would count as failing it. Rewriting it as acceptance criteria is how I read a values deck now.
- Grading the Grader: Reading the Duolingo English Test's Own Validity Evidence
Duolingo publishes strong validity research for its English test. Reading it closely, the problem isn't the numbers — it's the sentence they get turned into.
- The Pew Question I Found in Roper's Archive
A workshop had me pick a construct, then sent me into three survey archives. I found the keywords everywhere and the construct nowhere.
- The Merck Argentina Case: Localizing a Policy That Wasn't Built for the Place
A headquarters policy dropped into a country it was never designed for — and the Friday morning somebody asked for one small exception to it.
- Chetna Gala Sinha Is My Power Pose
I was asked to name a superhero. I picked a banker in a yellow saree who keeps one hand still for fourteen minutes — and learned why it works.
- How Not to Suck as a Manager: The Case Packet & the Self-Check That Cannot Fail
A case study tells two bad-manager stories from the employee's chair. Part C turns the chair around, with a self-check that cannot come out clean.
- Mental Health in Tech: The Stakes I Named, and the Sample That Couldn't Carry Them
Before touching the data I named stigma, geography, and legal stakes. The country breakdown then showed which of the three this sample could not carry.
- Criterion A: The Trauma Definition I Defended & the Clause Written to Exclude It
I argued trauma should stay objectively defined. The revision I praised for being tighter was written specifically to exclude losses like mine.
- DORA Quick Check - A Critique
A benchmark that scores your team's delivery performance in under a minute. The speed is the product — and why two developers score it differently.
- What the Marshall & Gordon Case Taught Me About Pay
A case study asked me to fix a firm's broken bonus system. What I took away was a new way to read how any company pays — and why the check is never the story.
- What the DaVita Case Taught Me About Strong Cultures
A week with one case study on a company that rebuilt itself around culture — and what it changed in how I read any strong culture, including the ones I admire.
- Building the Catastrophizing Scale: Construction Log & Honest Audit
Three of us built a psychometric scale from nothing — construct, items, peer review, analysis. The honest log: strong reliability, weak validity, an N of 7.
- The Government Already Wrote a Job Description for You
The government maintains a job description for every job in the country — and the O*NET code you're slotted into can set your wage floor and visa eligibility.
- Lost in Conversion
A number is only as honest as its unit, currency, scale, and sample. I'd converted units for a decade — and still shipped the mistake in my own paper.
- Striving for Equity in Marriage: The Talk, & the Marriage Still in Discovery Mode
A TEDx talk arguing people can transform marriage from within — then an audit of that tidy framework against the messy, unfinished marriage I built it from.
- "Fix Broken Systems, Not Broken People": My Equity Creed & the Audit I Ran on It
I wrote a confident equity creed, then ran QA on it using its own citations — and found the gap between a value you can recite and one you actually practice.
- The LGBTQ+ Panic Defense Prohibition Act & the Question I'd Rewrite
A 25-minute policy presentation taught me the difference between inviting a room to think and demanding that it agree.
- Industry Was a Costume: Seventy of Us Described the Same Tool and Thought It Was Ours
Seventy classmates described AI tools by industry. Underneath the costumes, we had all reached for the same few tools.
- My Favorite Speech: A 90-Second Teardown of a Motivational Speech
A 90-second locker-room speech from a Hindi film showed me that persuasion can work by handing the stakes back to the people who were doubted.
- No Root Cause: What Coincidence Analysis Taught Me About Organizational Interventions
Coincidence Analysis taught me that organizational change may not have one root cause — just different sufficient recipes for the same outcome.
- From Needs Assessment to Recommendation: The Belonging Fund Project
My team designed a fund to help students feel they belonged. Our biggest limitation was that we never spoke to a single student.
- Religiosity vs. GDP: A Regression That Passed Every Check — and a Causal Story It Can't Tell
A clean regression linked religiosity and GDP. That statistical cleanliness is exactly why the causal story needs more caution.
- Precise About Forty, Silent About the Rest
A selection-law discussion post showed me how precisely the law can draw one boundary while staying silent about another.
- MGNREGA: The Regression That Held — and the State Where the Budget Line Goes to Zero
A regression linked MGNREGA labor budgets to women’s paid workdays. Then West Bengal’s frozen funds tested what the chart could honestly say.
- The QA Manager, Part IV: Rating the Raters — and Who Never Got a Vote
Designing a QA Manager appraisal showed me that a rating system is a value statement before it is a measurement tool.
- The Personality Score I Didn't Pay For: A Big Five Snapshot & the Textbook Page That Found Me
A Big Five test and a textbook page gave me an accurate, uncomfortable read. Here is what I did with the pattern instead of hiding it.
- The QA Manager, Part III: The Satisfaction Survey I Built — and Every Way It Could Mislead Me
I built a six-question satisfaction survey for a QA manager role, then audited every way my own instrument could mislead me.
- Catching False Passes in a QA Selection Plan
I designed a QA selection funnel with validity coefficients and cutoff scores, then found the statistical error and bias I had built in.
- Shipping Defects in a QA Manager Job Description
Writing a QA Manager job description taught me that job posts and software requirements fail the same way: unclear specs ship defects.
- Brave Spaces vs. Safe Spaces: What Group Coaching Taught Me About Holding a Room
Two group-coaching reflections became an audit of overthinking, silence, and the word that caught me off guard.
- What My Career Anchors Said About the Work I Actually Want
My top two career anchors tied for first place. In Schein's model, they aren't supposed to be roommates.
- VulnerABLE Pan-European Survey - A Critique
A European survey set out to hear from isolated and vulnerable people. Its own method may have quietly changed what those people felt safe saying.
- What My Cultural Intelligence Assessment Said — and Whether It Was Right
A self-scored culture test labeled me a 'Chameleon.' The honest part was where my own scores disagreed with each other.
- Defining Fairness Through Accessibility: The Invisible Tax of Shifting Baselines
When a test measures barriers instead of ability, the score becomes evidence of the system around the person, not just the person.
- Exploring Psychopathology: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
A film assignment taught me that addiction is rarely a single event — it's the cumulative result of pressure, pain, and lost connection.
- Your Stress Is Contagious. So Is Your Calm.
Stress is not private when it leaks into a room. This self-audit traces how pressure spreads at work, and how calm can spread too.
- Looking Inward: What a BuzzFeed Quiz Taught Me About Myself
My professor assigned us a BuzzFeed quiz. I took it twice. I got 'underprivileged' twice. Here is what I found when I stopped pretending otherwise.
- My Power Audit: What I Found When I Examined My Own Influence at Work
A one-page assignment asked me to audit my workplace power. What I found was mostly a map of my own anxiety.
- Gender & Competitiveness: Not More. Not Less. Just Different.
Men and women compete differently — not more or less. These are my generalized views drawn from weekly readings and research in my course work.
- Can articles be password protected?
An experiment in keeping some writing private.
- Launching surojito.com: Setup Log & Honest Audit
Publishing a personal site taught me that every blocked step is just a negotiation — with a tool, a credential, or a UI that wasn't designed with you in mind.
- Persuasive Speech: Outline & Self-Evaluation
A persuasive speech assignment taught me to build an outline that does the heavy lifting — and that mid-speech corrections are just negotiating for clarity.
- Writing in my own space
Why I'm publishing my course work and self-audits here, in my own words.