#equity
16 articles
- Sex Differences in PTSD: The Response Paper Where I Confused Prevalence with Vulnerability
Women have higher PTSD rates and lower trauma exposure. My draft read that as fragility. The meta-analysis says something more careful and more interesting.
- The Etymology Exercise: Tracing "Privilege" to Its Root & What the Root Can't Tell You
An assignment sends you to a word's Indo-European root. Privilege comes apart into private and law, and the derivative list shows why a root is not a meaning.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.