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Assignment: Racial & Phenotypic Bias Reading Analysis
Major Concepts and/or Theories Addressed (feel free to define concepts that are new and that you are learning for the first time. These will be concepts used to help analyze your research papers).
Discussion Questions: These questions should pertain to methodological issues.
Reading Response: Use these questions to help with your response. Not all questions need to be answered. These questions will be used as starting points for our class discussion.
What does the piece say?
What research question does the reading address? (Or, what theoretical question?) What argument does the reading make? Is the reading clear? Are there difficult or problematic points that we should address in class?
How does the piece support its claims?
Is the argument based on systematically collected data, personal experience, theory, criticism/ appreciation of others' ideas, or something else?
If based on data: Does the data support the author's claims? How strongly? Are there gaps or weaknesses in the analysis?
If based on theory: What are the author's basic theoretical assumptions, e.g. about medicine, health, disease, illness, human behavior, or the workings of organizations or other social groups? Are these assumptions plausible?
How does it compare to other works on similar subjects? This is an important element of your response.
How are the author's claims similar to and/or different from those of other works we have read? Who would this author agree with, and who would s/he disagree with? What would they agree/disagree about?
Who cares?
Does the piece have practical implications, e.g., does it tell us anything about how we ought to live our lives, organize our collective affairs, structure our major social institutions and policies, etc.?
Does it yield theoretical insights, e.g. does it tell us anything about how people, society, etc. work in general?
Does it include useful interpretations, e.g. does it cast familiar situations in fresh light or help us understand our experiences in new and perhaps better ways?
Does it make a methodological contribution, e.g. does it demonstrate new ways of collecting and analyzing data or weighing ideas that might be useful in examining other topics?
How broadly do these insights apply? Do they apply to every person (or every innovation, every audience, etc.) in the world always? Or only to a particular society? To a particular society at a given time? To only certain people in that society at that time? Does the author make any claims about how broadly his or her conclusions apply, and do you agree?
What do you think overall?
What do you like and dislike about this reading? Why? Do you agree or disagree with the argument? Why?
Readings.
1) Goldfarb & Brown. 2022. Diversifying participation: The rarity of reporting racial demographics in neuroimaging research.
2) Parker & Richard 2022. Structural racism in neuroimaging.
3) Webb et al. 2022. Addressing racial and phenotypic bias in human neuroscience methods.