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“How Researcher Homogeneity Distorts Knowledge Production”

Musa al-Gharbi is an American academic – a sociologist and a professor of journalism – who is an occasional columnist for the Guardian. He describes himself as a Democrat.

If you were asked to guess from the information in the sentence above what he would say in a talk giving an overview of sociological research about American voters in the era of Trump, you’d probably be wrong, just like I was.

I found his talk “How Researcher Homogeneity Distorts Knowledge Production” informative and entertaining.

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