Cuts to research into inequality, disparities and other DEIA topics harm science

By H. Colleen Sinclair, Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University

When I taught research methods to undergraduates, I would start by asking whether anyone in the class had $20. Though harder to come by thanks to digital payment options, inevitably someone would produce a $20 bill. I would then ask whether they knew how the bill came to look the way it does. Students would take guesses – often rooted in history and counterfeiting concerns.

While valid, the larger font and picture designs that came about in the 1990s and early 2000s were also the result of research…

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