• jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
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    5 months ago

    If you’re changing the methodology, it’s beyond disingenuous to claim a change in the data.

    • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Organizations routinely update how they define things. Especially nuanced sociological categories that do in fact shift with time, public perception, and politics. It’s not disingenuous unless those definitions are not clearly described in the literature analyzing the data. Being better able to identify these groups based on more information is a good thing. I’ve seen no evidence that anything unethical happened here.