ENHANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION IN QUANTITATIVE STUDIES OF AGE AND LIFE COURSE
Jessica Kelley · 2024
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Jessica Kelley argues that quantitative aging research keeps erasing the very diversity it claims to study. Scholars using ready-made datasets inherit the original collectors' choices about whom to include and what to measure. Those choices shrink small groups to samples too tiny to analyze, or blur them into over-broad categories. Her 2024 paper names two barriers, using race and ethnicity as the running example.
The first barrier is erasure itself: whole populations vanish from the evidence base. The second is a habit of letting statistical logic stand in for social reality, reading artifacts of method as facts about people. Kelley then offers five fixes researchers can apply with the data already in hand. They include honoring variety inside groups and refusing to over-read small gaps between groups. They also weave cohort membership and structural inequality into the analysis itself.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jessica Kelley |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |