C. Thi Nguyen
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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Like maps are showing things that are real.
It's that any data system has already represented prior decisions about what's worth collecting.
noticing and measuring.
So Jeffrey Bowker and Susan Lee Starr have this incredible book that I think you should read called Sorting Things Out.
And they talk about, they think one of the big roots of this is what's in the classificatory structure that underlies the data collection.
So one of their core examples is they study the ICD-10, the international manual that gives different codes to accidents and causes of death.
And they point out
that, so they look at the falls coding and they point out for urban falls, there are separate distinct codes for fall from a balcony, fall from playground equipment, fall from hospital equipment, fall from a commode, fall down an escalator, fall down, there are different codes for all of this.
And for urban falls, there is fall from a cliff and fall other, and that's it, right?
That system,
has very high granularity for urban accidents and very low granularity for rural accidents.
So, I mean, that system displays what it cares about and what it doesn't.
I mean, here's another – this is an example I just – that has been staring me in the face forever that I hadn't realized until like a week ago because we were talking about this with my students.
Intelligence tests –
Automatically, our intelligence tests right now highly weight logical, mathematical, and abstract skill.
They don't rate emotional sensitivity at all, right?
Like doesn't this reveal something about the values embedded in the system that the thing that we call an intelligence test that is measuring someone's intellectual capacity has nothing in it that tracks your ability to –
empathize or be aware of other people's emotions?
Yeah, but let me level up that thought.
A, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, you'll think it's stupid.
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