This is a beautiful popular press distillation of the problem of using meaningless index variables, like race (or age or sex/gender), instead of disaggregating their constituent (and potentially modifiable) components.

This is not directly related to our classes, and yet important for us to think about.

 http://www.vox.com/2014/12/15/7382941/race-research-social-science

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