— Katie DrummondIn that process, I got really sensitized to the process of creating data, right? Like the millions of editorial choices that go into how are we designing a methodology that will create data that we can be comfortable saying is a proxy for a very complex reality? I was already backed into just how contingent and ultimately editorialized data is. It's not a right, flat reflection of the facts of our universe. It's a series of choices that people have made that reflect their positions, their interests, the job they have, right?
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