Heini Väisänen
@heinivaisanen.bsky.social
Social demography, sexual & reproductive health (#abortion, #miscarriage) at INED, France.
PI of ERC Starting Grant "Social Inequalities in the Risk and Aftermath of Miscarriage (@soc-misc.bsky.social)".
@FemQuant.bsky.social co-ordinator.
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PI of ERC Starting Grant "Social Inequalities in the Risk and Aftermath of Miscarriage (@soc-misc.bsky.social)".
@FemQuant.bsky.social co-ordinator.
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We show how changing a denominator changes the story of social #inequality in #miscarriage & discuss why such inequalities may (not) emerge
The entire issue is full of brilliant articles by exciting scholars, worth a read!
Many thanks to SI editors Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi & Philip Kreager
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The entire issue is full of brilliant articles by exciting scholars, worth a read!
Many thanks to SI editors Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi & Philip Kreager
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November 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
We show how changing a denominator changes the story of social #inequality in #miscarriage & discuss why such inequalities may (not) emerge
The entire issue is full of brilliant articles by exciting scholars, worth a read!
Many thanks to SI editors Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi & Philip Kreager
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The entire issue is full of brilliant articles by exciting scholars, worth a read!
Many thanks to SI editors Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi & Philip Kreager
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📖Recommended reading
Our article 'Measuring social inequalities in self-reported #miscarriage experiences in the UK' is now part of a special issue 'Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective' in Journal of Critical Public Health
Full issue: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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Our article 'Measuring social inequalities in self-reported #miscarriage experiences in the UK' is now part of a special issue 'Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective' in Journal of Critical Public Health
Full issue: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025)
| Journal of Critical Public Health
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
📖Recommended reading
Our article 'Measuring social inequalities in self-reported #miscarriage experiences in the UK' is now part of a special issue 'Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective' in Journal of Critical Public Health
Full issue: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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Our article 'Measuring social inequalities in self-reported #miscarriage experiences in the UK' is now part of a special issue 'Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective' in Journal of Critical Public Health
Full issue: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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Our first Special Issue is out now! It's on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective - Guest editors: Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi, and Philip Kreager
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025)
| Journal of Critical Public Health
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca
November 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Our first Special Issue is out now! It's on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective - Guest editors: Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi, and Philip Kreager
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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I feel angry about the all hostile narratives propagated against immigrants. It's socially hard for an ethnic minority woman to express anger but nevertheless I feel I must. Anger is the appropriate emotion here with such gross unfairness & public harm. Let's give eachother permission to express it.
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I feel angry about the all hostile narratives propagated against immigrants. It's socially hard for an ethnic minority woman to express anger but nevertheless I feel I must. Anger is the appropriate emotion here with such gross unfairness & public harm. Let's give eachother permission to express it.
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Had to see for myself. Shared by @smutclyde.bsky.social, published in Nature Scientific Reports (like PLOS One, peer-reviewed [!] for soundness, not importance). The article is about AI-based autism diagnosis. Article processing charge: $2690. AI slop science: priceless
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Had to see for myself. Shared by @smutclyde.bsky.social, published in Nature Scientific Reports (like PLOS One, peer-reviewed [!] for soundness, not importance). The article is about AI-based autism diagnosis. Article processing charge: $2690. AI slop science: priceless
In case you're wondering where to present your fabulous #miscarriage research, please submit to a session organised by the members of the @soc-misc.bsky.social team at the @eshms.bsky.social conference in Hamburg in August! Deadline 15 Feb 2026
More info below 👇
More info below 👇
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📢 Call for Papers: "Studying Pregnancy Losses"
We're excited to announce a session at the @eshms.bsky.social Biennial Conference 2026 in Hamburg
📧 eshms.eu/wp-content/u...
🗓️ Deadline: 15 February 2026
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📢 Call for Papers: "Studying Pregnancy Losses"
We're excited to announce a session at the @eshms.bsky.social Biennial Conference 2026 in Hamburg
📧 eshms.eu/wp-content/u...
🗓️ Deadline: 15 February 2026
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eshms.eu
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In case you're wondering where to present your fabulous #miscarriage research, please submit to a session organised by the members of the @soc-misc.bsky.social team at the @eshms.bsky.social conference in Hamburg in August! Deadline 15 Feb 2026
More info below 👇
More info below 👇
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✉️ Le projet SOC-MISC lance sa lettre d’information !
Nous enverrons deux fois par an une lettre d’information présentant les dernières activités du SOC-MISC. La 1e lettre sera envoyée en décembre 2025. Si vous souhaitez rester informé, veuillez souscrire ici : soc-misc.site.ined.fr/fr/a-propos/...
Nous enverrons deux fois par an une lettre d’information présentant les dernières activités du SOC-MISC. La 1e lettre sera envoyée en décembre 2025. Si vous souhaitez rester informé, veuillez souscrire ici : soc-misc.site.ined.fr/fr/a-propos/...
Lettre d’information SOC-MISC
soc-misc.site.ined.fr
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
✉️ Le projet SOC-MISC lance sa lettre d’information !
Nous enverrons deux fois par an une lettre d’information présentant les dernières activités du SOC-MISC. La 1e lettre sera envoyée en décembre 2025. Si vous souhaitez rester informé, veuillez souscrire ici : soc-misc.site.ined.fr/fr/a-propos/...
Nous enverrons deux fois par an une lettre d’information présentant les dernières activités du SOC-MISC. La 1e lettre sera envoyée en décembre 2025. Si vous souhaitez rester informé, veuillez souscrire ici : soc-misc.site.ined.fr/fr/a-propos/...
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✉️ The SOC-MISC project launches a newsletter!
Find out about the latest activities and results of SOC-MISC twice a year. The first letter will be sent in December 2025. Please subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox as soon as it is published: soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/about/soc...
Find out about the latest activities and results of SOC-MISC twice a year. The first letter will be sent in December 2025. Please subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox as soon as it is published: soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/about/soc...
SOC-MISC Newsletter
soc-misc.site.ined.fr
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
✉️ The SOC-MISC project launches a newsletter!
Find out about the latest activities and results of SOC-MISC twice a year. The first letter will be sent in December 2025. Please subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox as soon as it is published: soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/about/soc...
Find out about the latest activities and results of SOC-MISC twice a year. The first letter will be sent in December 2025. Please subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox as soon as it is published: soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/about/soc...
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Would you like to stay updated on the most recent #miscarriage research by the @soc-misc.bsky.social project? You are in luck: we'll launch a newsletter next month!
Please subscribe using the link below 👇
We'll email you twice a year, so you won't get flooded with emails, but you'll stay tuned
Please subscribe using the link below 👇
We'll email you twice a year, so you won't get flooded with emails, but you'll stay tuned
✉️ The SOC-MISC project launches a newsletter!
Find out about the latest activities and results of SOC-MISC twice a year. The first letter will be sent in December 2025. Please subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox as soon as it is published: soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/about/soc...
Find out about the latest activities and results of SOC-MISC twice a year. The first letter will be sent in December 2025. Please subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox as soon as it is published: soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/about/soc...
SOC-MISC Newsletter
soc-misc.site.ined.fr
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Would you like to stay updated on the most recent #miscarriage research by the @soc-misc.bsky.social project? You are in luck: we'll launch a newsletter next month!
Please subscribe using the link below 👇
We'll email you twice a year, so you won't get flooded with emails, but you'll stay tuned
Please subscribe using the link below 👇
We'll email you twice a year, so you won't get flooded with emails, but you'll stay tuned
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Call for Papers!
Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll.
Deadline: 21 January 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll.
Deadline: 21 January 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Call for Papers!
Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll.
Deadline: 21 January 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll.
Deadline: 21 January 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
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📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing
Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA
Job:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/
Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA
Job:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing
Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA
Job:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/
Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA
Job:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/
Would you like to stay updated on the most recent #miscarriage research by the @soc-misc.bsky.social project? You are in luck: we'll launch a newsletter next month!
Please subscribe using the link below 👇
We'll email you twice a year, so you won't get flooded with emails, but you'll stay tuned
Please subscribe using the link below 👇
We'll email you twice a year, so you won't get flooded with emails, but you'll stay tuned
✉️ The SOC-MISC project launches a newsletter!
Find out about the latest activities and results of SOC-MISC twice a year. The first letter will be sent in December 2025. Please subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox as soon as it is published: soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/about/soc...
Find out about the latest activities and results of SOC-MISC twice a year. The first letter will be sent in December 2025. Please subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox as soon as it is published: soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/about/soc...
SOC-MISC Newsletter
soc-misc.site.ined.fr
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Would you like to stay updated on the most recent #miscarriage research by the @soc-misc.bsky.social project? You are in luck: we'll launch a newsletter next month!
Please subscribe using the link below 👇
We'll email you twice a year, so you won't get flooded with emails, but you'll stay tuned
Please subscribe using the link below 👇
We'll email you twice a year, so you won't get flooded with emails, but you'll stay tuned
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I don’t know what to say anymore other than to remind those in power that refugees are human beings with equal rights who, along with their children, deserve a safe, stable & integrated life in their communities and that what they’re breaking now with this performative cruelty can’t be fixed later.
The Labour government does not want to rule out deporting somebody once here as a refugee 16-19 years with a British-born 15 year old child
November 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I don’t know what to say anymore other than to remind those in power that refugees are human beings with equal rights who, along with their children, deserve a safe, stable & integrated life in their communities and that what they’re breaking now with this performative cruelty can’t be fixed later.
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This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
A new pre-print from @soc-misc.bsky.social project!
We compare the number of self-reported miscarriages to healthcare records in Finland to better understand the quality of #miscarriage data.
More info 👇
My co-authors: Hanna Remes, Lara Lehtoranta, @mccompans.bsky.social, Pekka Martikainen
We compare the number of self-reported miscarriages to healthcare records in Finland to better understand the quality of #miscarriage data.
More info 👇
My co-authors: Hanna Remes, Lara Lehtoranta, @mccompans.bsky.social, Pekka Martikainen
📣New pre-print from SOC-MISC: Measuring miscarriages: A comparison of self-reported and healthcare register data in Finland.
More info below 👇🧵
Read full paper here: osf.io/preprints/so...
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More info below 👇🧵
Read full paper here: osf.io/preprints/so...
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OSF
osf.io
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A new pre-print from @soc-misc.bsky.social project!
We compare the number of self-reported miscarriages to healthcare records in Finland to better understand the quality of #miscarriage data.
More info 👇
My co-authors: Hanna Remes, Lara Lehtoranta, @mccompans.bsky.social, Pekka Martikainen
We compare the number of self-reported miscarriages to healthcare records in Finland to better understand the quality of #miscarriage data.
More info 👇
My co-authors: Hanna Remes, Lara Lehtoranta, @mccompans.bsky.social, Pekka Martikainen
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✨ New look, same great resource ✨
Our World Abortion Laws map is the definitive record of the legal status of abortion in countries and territories across the globe, updated in real time. Check it out in English or Spanish here: https://bit.ly/47X2s26
Our World Abortion Laws map is the definitive record of the legal status of abortion in countries and territories across the globe, updated in real time. Check it out in English or Spanish here: https://bit.ly/47X2s26
World's Abortion Laws - Center for Reproductive Rights
Over the past 30 years, more than 60 countries and territories have liberalized their abortion laws.From Ireland to Nepal, abortion rights are becoming recognized as fundamental human rights for milli...
reproductiverights.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
✨ New look, same great resource ✨
Our World Abortion Laws map is the definitive record of the legal status of abortion in countries and territories across the globe, updated in real time. Check it out in English or Spanish here: https://bit.ly/47X2s26
Our World Abortion Laws map is the definitive record of the legal status of abortion in countries and territories across the globe, updated in real time. Check it out in English or Spanish here: https://bit.ly/47X2s26
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Join us in December for our last event in 2025, an informal online Meet & Mingle. There's a loose structure, but in brief: we hang out for about an hour and chat about feminist quantsy stuff we're working on/ thinking about. More info + link to sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Join us in December for our last event in 2025, an informal online Meet & Mingle. There's a loose structure, but in brief: we hang out for about an hour and chat about feminist quantsy stuff we're working on/ thinking about. More info + link to sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
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🚨Job🚨Postdoc Position(s) at the Max Planck–University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health, a joint initiative of @mpidr.bsky.social & @helsinki.fi with the vision to unearth pivotal social processes that generate health inequalities.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🚨Job🚨Postdoc Position(s) at the Max Planck–University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health, a joint initiative of @mpidr.bsky.social & @helsinki.fi with the vision to unearth pivotal social processes that generate health inequalities.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
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Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
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I'm biased, but this looks like a brilliant job opportunity to me. Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
Associate Professorship in Sociology - Nuffield College Oxford University
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I'm biased, but this looks like a brilliant job opportunity to me. Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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Sociology journal is looking for new Board members!
Do you specialise in quantitative or computational methods? Apply now!
The full list of expertise we need and how to apply can be found below. Applications close 11 November 2025.
www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc
Do you specialise in quantitative or computational methods? Apply now!
The full list of expertise we need and how to apply can be found below. Applications close 11 November 2025.
www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Sociology journal is looking for new Board members!
Do you specialise in quantitative or computational methods? Apply now!
The full list of expertise we need and how to apply can be found below. Applications close 11 November 2025.
www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc
Do you specialise in quantitative or computational methods? Apply now!
The full list of expertise we need and how to apply can be found below. Applications close 11 November 2025.
www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc
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📢 Now open: BSPS 2026 Call for sessions and strands. Come and join us in Canterbury. 8-10 September 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📢 Now open: BSPS 2026 Call for sessions and strands. Come and join us in Canterbury. 8-10 September 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
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When we dismiss years of careful research because it lacks a national headcount, we're not being rigorous, we're being reductive.
The question we should be asking isn't just 'How many?' but 'What counts as knowing’?
The question we should be asking isn't just 'How many?' but 'What counts as knowing’?
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
When we dismiss years of careful research because it lacks a national headcount, we're not being rigorous, we're being reductive.
The question we should be asking isn't just 'How many?' but 'What counts as knowing’?
The question we should be asking isn't just 'How many?' but 'What counts as knowing’?
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The paradox is demanding precise answers to questions we haven't sought to measure. We want to know 'how many' before we ask 'who they are', 'what they need', or 'how we can support them'; letting the absence of one type of data eclipse the presence of another, often more relevant form of knowledge
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The paradox is demanding precise answers to questions we haven't sought to measure. We want to know 'how many' before we ask 'who they are', 'what they need', or 'how we can support them'; letting the absence of one type of data eclipse the presence of another, often more relevant form of knowledge