# More meaningful than what? Populations and truth in social science

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The piece shows how converting a population-level gender pay gap into an individual unpaid-work scenario changes the claim's meaning and policy implications.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 November 2007

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 1 November 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: social-science, analogy, statistics, gender.

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