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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A student of mine wrote about stereotyping, which she attributed to the act of “demo graphing”: “Demo graphing goes hand in hand with stereotyping because people sterotype others by the groups that they decide to put them in.” A wrong, yet pleasingly right interpretation of demographics.
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Interesting post, weatherr. To me, the interest would come from the interpretation that the student might (or might not) be making of “demo”. The graphing part, as in making a graph of something, is not too terribly far from the meaning of ”-graphy”, in that both signify description, albeit the latter is more general and all-encompassing than the former. So what do you make of the demo part? That she was confusing “demonstration” or “demonstrator model” with “demos” = people? As in, to demonstrate a point by spinning the data according to your preconceptions?
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